Plex for Android 2026.21.0 Beta 1
Plex for iOS 2026.21.0 Beta 1
NEW:
- [Android TV][Fire TV][tvOS] Improved focus when moving up and down through the Live TV guide.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Lists can now be reordered.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Live TV: Added side sheet for future airings on On Now / Up Next guide on TV.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Player: See when a video ends.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] The clock stays visible across screens.
- [Android][iOS] Full-screen Libraries and Live TV source pickers.
- [Android][iOS] Libraries are now shown as cards.
- [Android][iOS][Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Player: Change or cancel a recording of the current program while watching an OTA live TV channel.
- [Meta Horizon] Player: Watch side-by-side and top-and-bottom 3D videos.
- [iOS] Ready for iPhone Duo: it gets the iPad layout and rotates freely when unfolded, and keeps clear of the side status bar when folded.
FIXES:
- Credits links would sometimes improperly open the library browse screen with filters.
- Episodes in collections were appearing as show posters instead of episode thumbnails.
- Library title sort flipped to descending after applying filters, and started descending for episodes.
- List headings on collections and playlists were not type aware.
- Marking an item as watched sometimes would not update the continue watching hub.
- Mentions in Popular Discussions showed as plain text instead of highlighted usernames
- Photo playlists appeared in Playlists, and opening one showed an error until the app was restarted.
- Player: Changing display mode, landscape lock or nerd statistics could undo a change to boost dialog, normalize loudness or auto-sync subtitles, or the other way around, after restarting the app.
- Player: Changing the sleep timer duration could still stop playback at the earlier time.
- Scheduling a recording from the live TV guide reloaded the whole guide.
- Some hubs on collection screens didn’t have a sufficient gap above them
- The Add to List button did not work on list details screens.
- [Android TV] Fixed the app freezing during playback on some Google TV devices.
- [Android TV] Player: Playback paused itself right after starting when refresh rate or resolution switching was turned on.
- [Android TV][Fire TV] Entering a profile PIN with the remote number keys no longer changes the channel on some TVs.
- [Android TV][Fire TV] Fixed a crash on startup on some Android TV devices without Google Play Services.
- [Android TV][Fire TV] Moving up quickly in All Libraries no longer jumps back to the top of the list.
- [Android TV][Fire TV] Player: A Live TV channel could keep playing in the background after leaving the app.
- [Android TV][Fire TV][tvOS] Changing a Plex Home user’s Live TV & DVR access closed the restrictions menu before the change could be saved.
- [Android TV][Fire TV][tvOS] Details pages for over-the-air shows showed empty episode placeholders and nothing was focused.
- [Android TV][Fire TV][tvOS] Details pages opened while browsing without an account focus the action bar again.
- [Android TV][Fire TV][tvOS] Opening a filter like Genre now focuses the selected value, or the first one, straight away instead of flickering the highlight.
- [Android TV][Fire TV][tvOS] Pressing down from an activity card now focuses its first button instead of the More button.
- [Android TV][Fire TV][tvOS] The radio button on the highlighted option in privacy settings was hidden.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Focus would move incorrectly on servers in the all libraries list.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Live TV guide rows could reload and lose focus after closing a menu or while scrolling.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] The app asked for your PIN after 5 minutes without input, even while a video was paused.
- [Android] The app could crash while downloads were in progress.
- [Android] The app could crash while playing downloaded content.
- [Android][Android TV][Fire TV] Fixed a crash when an ad break starts during free movies and shows.
- [Android][Android TV][Fire TV] Player: The app could freeze after quickly backing out of a Live TV show while its preview was playing.
- [Android][Android TV][Fire TV] The app could crash when changing a star rating.
- [Android][Android TV][Fire TV] The app crashed after saving a user’s library access changes.
- [Android][iOS] Downloads watched offline showed in play history at the time they synced instead of when they were watched.
- [Android][iOS] Dropping an item while reordering a list no longer jumps the list back to the top.
- [Android][iOS] Tapping the last star gave four and a half stars instead of five.
- [Android][iOS] The music video icon on a track could overlap the track’s duration.
- [Android][iOS][Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] The jump bar showed only dots for albums sorted by Album Artist and for TV seasons and episodes sorted by Show.
- [iOS] Player: The next video in the queue now plays when the phone is locked.
- [iOS] The tab bar stretched across the full screen on iPad.
- [iOS][Android] Managing a Plex Pass or Remote Watch Pass subscription opened the plans page instead of your account’s payments page.
- [iOS][Android] The clear button was missing in the search field after tapping a recent search.
- [iOS][tvOS] Fixed an incorrect animation on the side navigation.
- [iOS][tvOS] Player: Theme music could play at full volume instead of the Theme Music volume setting.
- [tvOS] Focus traversal was incorrect on the header of media details screens.
- [tvOS] The empty DVR Schedule and Recording Priority screens had nothing focused.
- [tvOS][Android TV][Fire TV] Fixed the Activity feed being cut off before the screen edges while scrolling.
