The first update of the new experience: 2025.0 (686) has introduced downloads for offline playback which is great! Downloads are much quicker and I love seeing the realtime accurate download speed :+1:t4: I’m having 2 issues though. It shows my estimated remaining storage space as much lower than i…

The first issue is being worked on. TY for reporting :+1: Prefer downloads and syncing watched status will be addressed in a future update.

Can you download more than two items at a time and will it complete them with your device locked?

Can’t event test this out as the app says i only have estimated 2GB space free so downloads won’t even start. This is while I have over 100GB free on my iPhone! Hopefully this is a bug that get’s fixed in future updates!

Well that’s annoying… :face_with_diagonal_mouth:

Will we be able to download with our device locked on the new version?

Is this using the modern Apple-recommended background download task mechanism? Yippee, hooray!

Brilliant news thank you! For some reason the latest TestFlight build 704 isn’t showing up for me but I will give it time and keep refreshing. Excited for the new app to keep getting refined and take shape!

There aren’t skip forward/backward controls during playback of downloaded videos. Also, would we ever be able to airplay/cast videos that are downloaded?

In addition hopefully downloaded files will still let you ‘skip intro’ and ‘skip credits’ as currently that functionality does not work. Hopefully the aforementioned ‘prefer downloaded content’ integration will fix this but hopefully that is on the list for future improvements as well. Thanks!

Downloads on IOS

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Craig_Holliday December 3, 2024, 10:58pm 8

Yes that should be working in the preview today and is a big part of downloads we want to work well.

iOS allows background downloads, why doesn’t Plex enable it

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