Server Version#: Player Version#: 8.12.1 When pausing a movie on the Plex app on a iPhone, when returning, it will not resume playing, the app crashes or has to be restarted in order to start playing again. Anyone else experiancing this or is there a known fix?

How long are you pausing it for?

Varies, but even as short as a few minutes. Pause, grab some water, come back it won’t play like it’s frozen, have to kill it and restart the app.

Pretty sure I’m experiencing some flavor of this issue, but for audiobooks - if I pause at all, pressing play does nothing. Have to go back and find the playlist and resume manually (position not saved either). Any luck on isolating a cause?

No luck here, haven’t heard any other ideas yet either.

I have the same issue when casting to a chromecast. When I’m playing something the app is behaving as expected. As soon as I pause and either switch app, or lock the phone, the app has closed when I come back to it, and the casting disconnects. The time it has been locked for does not matter, can be…

Does your server computer or the media drives possibly go to sleep during the time it was paused? been trying to reproduce but can’t, it takes few moments to resume playing but it does for me. if you have more than one playback device can you have something continue playing on that (to make sure dr…

Hi, I have exactly the same for already a LONG time. The Server is always on and does not go to sleep etc. On my TV a Chromecast Ultra is connected and it playes perfectly all other streming apps and yes I can pause it and 5 min later continue. With Plex on my iPhone SE3, iPhone 13 and any other i…

I also have this for more then 2 years. No One helped me :frowning: [image] Chromecast disconnects with every stream using iOS devices Streaming Devices Hi all, I have for months the problem streaming from iOS to Chromecast Ultra. The app looses while playing the connec…

I can provide logs from 2 servers and many ios devices. I attaach it now from 2 servers. Plex Media Server Logs_2023-01-10_20-05-38.zip (4.4 MB) Plex Media Server Logs_2023-01-10_20-06-18.zip (4.2 MB)

Have to stop and restart Plex app after pausing on iPhone

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themuk January 10, 2023, 7:04pm 9

I also have this for more then 2 years. No One helped me

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Have to stop and restart Plex app after pausing on iPhone

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