I’ve seen this come up in the past, but as the last post was made a year ago, I’d like to broach the question again: will we ever get a way to remove the “recommended” default tab in our Plex libraries in the Plex app? It’s now 2025 and it appears there’s still no way to change this. The UI confuses the hell out of everyone I show it to—my girlfriend, parents, friends, all normies and tech-savvy people alike unanimously agree it’s confusing, and it’s all because of the “recommended” tab being the default. All we want to do is get into a library and pick something to watch.
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On which app are you trying to rectify.
Now if it is Plex app or PMS or even Smart Tv app, it just a matter of selecting library once and it will stick until you change.
Meaning: Tv Shows, Movies, etc… Pages
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it will only remember the tab if you enable remember last tab in settings.
Long story short: No, there is no way to remove the Recommended Tab. As mentioned by starkraven, if you enable a setting in most clients, Plex will remember the last-selected tab and show that by default in the future. I have heard of one person here in the forums that this unfortunately seems to reset after a client update though…
As for the recommended tab, you can “mitigate” the pain of it by going into your server settings and remove/disable as many of the recommended boxes to remove them from the “Recommended” tab. The only thing left will be “Continue Watching”, which helps the user resume in-progress TV Show episodes, or unfinished movies. That should prompt them to change to Library to see the rest of the media, hopefully.
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My TV does NOT remember last-selected tab… my iPhone does NOT remember last-selected tab….
It’s so ridiculous that Plex don’t give an easy option to completely remove this tab. It’s a feature requested for years!
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