Hi, Had a little while to play with the new app on iOS (so glad there is support for Multichannel Spatial Audio!), but have noticed the following missing features/bugs that I didn’t see listed on the Documentation page. ▶ UI/UX ▶ Subtitles ▶ HDR/DV ▶ Codec Support & Transcoding ▶ Live TV ▶ Metadata & Logos ▶ Do…

I noticed that on tvOS, the new app can’t play 4K HDR properly on some titles. The tone mapping doesn’t work correctly and is all yellow. Plus the iOS app is so slow and laggy. Also volume of some content is very quiet.

Plex iOS app is buffering frequently for many titles sent via “Direct Play” (no transcoding). My phone is connected to my 5GHz Wi-Fi network at home. The same titles played in the current Plex app—even version 8.45 (9684) in TestFlight—will start playing immediately, can be scrubbed with excellent…

While scrolling through a large library, the app loads 40 titles + thumbnails at a time. At some point, it just … stopped loading any more. I had to switch contexts between Recommended and Browse, and switch back and forth between libraries a couple of times, before it finally decided to load more…

I am seeing similar behavior, except I haven’t even been able to get more than the first 40 posters. The scrollbar shows the page is quite long, though no posters beyond the first 40 appear.

I don’t see an option to see my playlists. On both iOS and iPadOS

Playlists are on the list of features not yet in scope of the previews. [image] Documentation, Features, and Common Questions Features With the initial preview releases of our new Plex Experience apps, some features are not included. We’ll continue adding and tweaking things in our regular (~wee…

Automatic Show Episode Download Downloading individual movies and tv shows works. But automatically downloading the next 3 unwatched episodes for a show has not yet been implemented.

Advanced download features are still in the pipeline. [image] Documentation, Features, and Common Questions Features With the initial preview releases of our new Plex Experience apps, some features are not included. We’ll continue adding and tweaking things in our regular (~weekly) app updates. …

I’m not on the Testflight, so I wanted to ask those who are about the thing that bothered me the most. Are there any changes to the video player navigation and interface (please someone post a screenshot (with the seek bar) if there are)? Are there any useful gestures now? The usual Plex experience…

[image] enchained: if you want to pause to read the subtitles, you touch the screen, then touch the pause, then touch the screen again to hide the huge panel that hides the subtitles completely, only to end up seeing the next subtitle line since the whole process is too slow. For such an impo…

Current Missing Features & Bugs with the iOS App Experience Preview

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tom80H January 23, 2025, 8:49pm 135

Playlists are on the list of features not yet in scope of the previews.

Is there a place/topic that aggregates known issues/features being built?

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