Navigation Updates
Since we launched the new Plex experience to preview users last year, we have received consistent feedback from the start regarding the navigation. Our fall update was the first step in making improvements to address those concerns, but they weren’t enough. We greatly appreciate that many of you, all across our community, have weighed in and kept providing feedback. We’ve been listening and today the release has some changes that are both new and familiar.
What’s New
Today’s release, going out to preview users on Apple TV and Roku, and beta for Android TV, will be returning the primary navigation to the lefthand side of the screen. See below for a peek at what it looks like as well as the key changes that we are including.
In additional to the collapsible side navigation panel, we’ve made a few other improvements:
- Favorite libraries are now a top level source
- Live TV & DVR sources can be favorited and re-ordered like Libraries
- Easily switch between pages within a source instead of navigating through the entire menu again
- Continued fixes for general performance, focus issues, and bugs
Accessing the Preview Builds
- Android TV: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.plexapp.android
- Apple TV: As part of this update we’ll also be opening up additional seats in TestFlight for our Apple TV preview experience. You can join here while seats are available: How to access the Plex Experience Preview (Android mobile, iOS, tvOS).
- Roku: Anyone who wants to check out the preview experience on Roku can do so here: Roku Plex Preview
Feedback Welcome!
We’d like to hear what you think about these changes. Please share your feedback in the Plex Experience Preview and tag it with either Roku, Apple-tv, or android-tv depending on what device you’re using.
Thank you,
Plex
