Plex for Android 2026.18.0 Beta 1
Plex for iOS 2026.18.0 Beta 1
NEW:
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] The list items now use a solid background to denote focus.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] The weekly activity digest modal now opens as a side sheet.
- [Android][iOS][Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Player: Record the current program while watching an OTA live TV channel.
- [Fire TV] Added a What’s New screen introducing the sidebar navigation.
- [tvOS][Android TV] Added a What’s New screen covering the updated navigation and other recent changes.
FIXES:
- A Live TV & DVR entry could remain in the side navigation with no way to remove it from your favorites.
- Collections that exist in multiple libraries did not link to each other.
- Episode title was not visible when sorting episode list by title.
- Fixed downloads sometimes failing to save right after the app started.
- Fixed links and notifications sometimes failing to open the content they pointed at, landing on Home instead.
- Home took longer to appear than it needed to on startup.
- Improve grid scrolling performance under some conditions.
- Scrolling up through older comments after leaving one snapped back to the bottom.
- The “More On This Title” item could disappear from the “More Ways to Watch” menu on PMS items.
- The app could crash while comments were still loading on a discussion or a list.
- The background colour behind artwork now settles as quickly as the artwork itself, instead of drifting in slowly after it.
- The cast device list could show up empty when a Plex device on the account had no reachable connections.
- The server dashboard could crash when a server had no bandwidth or resource statistics to report.
- [Android TV] Sign In with Google would crash the app.
- [Android TV][Fire TV] A focused action button could show only the first word of its label, like “Add” instead of “Add Review”.
- [Android TV][Fire TV] Canceling a recording from the DVR schedule causes focus issues.
- [Android TV][Fire TV] Fading edges on subtitles menu would sometimes appear over focused content.
- [Android TV][Fire TV] Fixed the navigation click going silent when moving focus inside a row or list that scrolls.
- [Android TV][Fire TV] Improve some cases where focus could lag behind scroll position.
- [Android TV][Fire TV] Player: Focus would leave the Find Subtitles menu after selecting a different subtitle language.
- [Android TV][Fire TV] Returning to the app after using another one could leave a black screen.
- [Android TV][Fire TV] The search screen could crash when switching the selected filter quickly.
- [Android TV][Fire TV][tvOS] Player: Selecting a trailer that had already played to the end showed a pause ad and a black screen instead of restarting it.
- [Android TV][Fire TV][tvOS] The Home screen took several seconds to load each time you returned to it.
- [Android TV][Fire TV][tvOS] Unable to enter PIN with a keyboard or the number keys on your remote.
- [Android TV][tvOS] Leaving a screen opened from the side nav flyout sent focus back to the profile button instead of the flyout item you came from.
- [Android TV][tvOS] On the Lists screen the more-options button was drawn far too wide, and moving down the list could lose focus entirely so no list could be opened.
- [Android TV][tvOS] Opening an empty list left nothing selected, so there was no way to tell where you were on the screen.
- [Android TV][tvOS] The more-options button on the notifications screen was drawn far too wide, squashing the notification next to it.
- [Android TV][tvOS] With the side navigation, the pivots at the top of a page stayed put instead of scrolling away with the content.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Changing a search filter moved the highlight off the filter you picked.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Dimmed the background further as you scroll a movie or show page, so titles and details stay easy to read.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Fixed opening Search from the side navigation while on a details page.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Focus was lost after declining a friend request from a user’s profile.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Navigation and season tabs you are not on are now dimmed, so the one you are on is easier to pick out.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Nothing was highlighted when you opened an activity from the feed a second time.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Player: The Up Next item on Post Play wasn’t always initially focused.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Scrolling quickly could allow the focus state to lag behind the scroll position.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Switching quickly between tiles no longer makes the background fade twice, and the artwork and the colour behind it now arrive together.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] The Directed by text on episode pages was too close to the episode artwork below it.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] The artwork on a movie or show page now dims away promptly as you scroll instead of lingering.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] The clock in the header now sits on a rounded backdrop that blends into the artwork, and no longer has extra empty space around it on a 24-hour clock.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] The exit confirmation now starts on “Yes, Exit”, and no longer appears by default on Apple TV.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] The season tabs on a show now sit on the same rounded backdrop as the navigation above them, instead of a dark gradient, and are hidden when a show has no seasons.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] The side navigation covered the highlight on discussion posts.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Watch stats were missing from the watch history screen.
- [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Your selection jumped back to the start of a title’s page when community content finished loading.
- [Android][Android TV] Browsing was smoother on lower-powered streaming devices like Chromecast with Google TV and Fire TV sticks.
- [Android][Android TV] Player: Improve media compatibility checking.
- [Android][Android TV] The app no longer slowed down the longer you browsed on Android TV devices.
- [Android][Android TV][Fire TV] Fixed a crash that could happen while navigating between screens.
- [Android][Android TV][Fire TV] Fixed a crash when moving quickly between screens or filters.
- [Android][Android TV][Fire TV] Player: The app could crash when starting playback or when returning to the app during playback.
- [Android][Android TV][Fire TV] The app could incorrectly report being offline, leaving screens stuck loading, when plex.tv was unreachable.
- [Android][Android TV][iOS][tvOS][Fire TV] Player: Fixed a burst of sound from a background trailer when moving on to something else just as it started playing.
- [Android][iOS][Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] A white outline would appear around star ratings.
- [Android][iOS][Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Fixed “See all” button alignment on Cast & Crew hub.
- [Android][iOS][Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] The app started in English instead of your device language.
- [Fire TV] The app could crash on Fire TV when returning to it after an Amazon sign-in.
- [iOS] The app could freeze for several seconds shortly after launch on older iPads.
- [iOS] The app could freeze for several seconds while checking for local network access.
- [iOS][Android] The estimated download size only included the first part of a multi-part file.
- [iOS][tvOS] Player: OTA live channel playback failed when DNS rebinding protection was enabled.
- [tvOS] Fixed focus not being able to go back to a details screen when opening the side nav.
- [tvOS] Focus could get stuck after deleting a list from a details screen and then returning to the user’s lists screen.
- [tvOS] Focus would snap to the side nav when loading the profile privacy settings.
- [tvOS] Nothing was focused after opening the create, edit, or duplicate list screens.
- [tvOS] Reviewing your favorite libraries after signing in started partway down the list instead of at the first library.
- [tvOS] Swiping right on the remote would close the sidebar instead of stopping in the account panel.
- [tvOS] Swiping the trackpad remote would not move a favorited library while reordering.
- [tvOS] You could not get back to the search keyboard after scrolling down through search results.
- [tvOS][Android TV] The title of the next row could be pushed off screen on hub screens, especially on rows with text under the posters.
- [tvOS][Android TV][Fire TV] Player: The inline Live TV preview could stay hidden after leaving fullscreen playback.
