How to Disable Home Pin

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I have been looking for this for a while and haven’t found any way to turn plex home off?  Not sure how it got turned on but I only have one user and I am really tired of having to enter a PIN on every device and screen every time it times out for more than 5 minutes.  Is there any way to disable this super annoying feature?

Mod-Edit:

This solution refers to an older version of Plex. Find below the support article describing how to remove / change a Pin for a managed user (or yourself). Considering the solution is outdated, I’m also unlisting this post!

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PIN set on user, unable to disable!
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After been logged into Plex Web, look at the top right Where you find a down arrow...

Click that, and select users....

Click on the padlock icon

/T

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How do I undo my PIN
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If you want to keep the pin, all the apps I've seen that use plex home have an "Automatically Sign In" option. In plex web this is under Settings -> Web -> General.

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Thank you Dane22.  What a relief.  That is about the most esoteric way I could think to build a PIN remove button.

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Thanks, never imagined that icon was doing something either

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Thank goodness for this thread, that was driving me crazy

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@dane22 said:
After been logged into Plex Web, look at the top right Where you find a down arrow…

Click that, and select users…

Click on the padlock icon

/T

this no longer works

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Huh, it sure does, so suspect your problem is different, like the new security preferences for 1.1.3 and above

And regardless, no need for a dislike !

/T

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Thank you.

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Thank god. Who knew that little padlock actually did something.

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Thank you for this. Was driving me crazy…

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Hm, didnt know that ether. A small green lock. Hmm,

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This explains it much easier… dane22’s explanation was missing a bit of details for those who are as slow as I am and do not know the in’s and outs of Plex.

https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200890058-Require-authentication-for-local-network-access

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Thank you. Exactly how a forum question is supposed to work!

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You can kill the PIN by going to settings > Users & Sharing …

Change pin button
Enter pin to comfirm its you
click remove (bottom left)

Viola. Gone.

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My system no longer recognized the DLNA Plex Server in the LG Audio/Video TV app. Hope that was just the Plex password, your post gives me hope to find an easy solution, thanks joeboydotnet