iPhone client thinks it's remotely streaming while on server network (solved)

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One iPhone in my house causes the “please purchase Plex Pass” screen to appear when streaming, but it’s on our home network. We’ve made sure that it’s not on a different subnet or anything. The other iOS devices in the house work just fine.

What is your home LAN subnet ?

Is it RFC-1918 compliant ? (aka: Private Network)

If you’re running a VPN, that will cause it as well because you’re actually looping through your modem/router which results in a Public IP coming back in

Make sure you have the local network access toggled “on” in the main iPhone settings for Plex. It’s easy to just say no to the prompt when it first launches.

This fixed the issue. I figured it was something trivial and silly. Thanks so much!

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