Like it says. The subtitle just stopped working on android for me. I’m sure you will fix it but man… as someone who almost exclusive use plex for foreign media, this is a big inconvenience.

Which version number are you on? Server and Player. What sort of subtitles do you have? SRT, PGS etc. Internal/External? I could not reproduce in the few I just tried with subtitles.

2025.15.0 (966828394) is client version. platform version 14. Device model SM-A546U1 Just updated the server to Version 1.41.6.9685. Ongoing problem. It’s mkv file with internal subtitle. ASS format on “media info” for the file it reads as follows. Codec ASS Language English Language Tag en Titl…

It does seem to be ASS format subs on Android with issue. I could reproduce with those. Thank you for reporting

Looks like this may be fixed in upcoming 2025.16 but I don’t have an ETA when it will be released.

So… what do I do? do you have guide on how to downgrade?

For what it’s worth, none of the fixes I found thus far fix this issue for the Google pixel tablet. I was able to roll back to 10.26 on my pixel 7 but on my tablet it tells me the package is invalid (arm64 v8a) I have no idea why this is but as someone with cognitive decline whose whole life revolv…

Hello friend, I can feel that you are frustrated I was faced with same “invalid” issue. Did you uninstall the Plex before side loading older version? Just in case you had the same problem I did.

I'm pretty sure new interface broke subtitle playback on android

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BigWheel May 1, 2025, 11:17pm 7

You can sideload the the old android app apk from here Plex for Android - #527 by PlexAndroidReleaser

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I'm pretty sure new interface broke subtitle playback on android

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