Downloads uses a new mechanism, but it missed the DNS rebinding issue. It’s being fixed.
That’s an OS issue. Plex will continue to run in the background, but if the OS chooses to kill the app, there isn’t anything we can do about that. If you keep the app on the Downloads page, it should keep the screen from turning off and the app from moving to the background while a Download is active.
Downloads was meant to be a faster, more stable feature. We are looking to potentially re-add this in the future.
Consider yourself lucky. We’ve had many, many, many reports of Sync not working.
This was announced and been in testing since the end of June, maybe you missed it. Sync is Dead (almost). Long Live Downloads! (Android)
