Just wanted to say that the latest update to the Plex app on FireTVs absolutely sucks. My two biggest gripes are how laggy it now is and the disappearance of the next button when watching a show. Like seriously?? Who the heck decided to remove the next button?? You have to fast forward all the way to the end of an episode now to go to the next one. I like to shuffle shows like South Park too and you can’t even do that anymore unless you navigate the painstakingly laggy episode/season menu and work your way all the way to the “show” tab. Just do us all a favor and revert back to the old version. Good Lord. I’ve never felt the need to write something like this before in my life but I’m just blown away that this was approved.
This update is absolute rubbish. It’s worse, slower, takes longer to do everything, is harder to navigate, and on top of that it’s full of bugs everywhere.
It’s a disgrace.
They should put up a tutorial on how to revert to the previous version.
I’ll keep this in mind just in case. I don’t want to do it that way and download anything from external sources. But if Plex itself doesn’t do anything, I’ll end up installing the version from the tutorial. That is, unless I switch straight to Jellyfin or some other programme.
Thank you.
There’s also Plezy and PM4K which is a add-on to Kodi
Then here is a version not on a third-party source.
Yeah this is awful… I keep discovering more things to hate. When my app first updated last week I got so frustrated with it I just turned the TV off and sat there in silence. The next day I got so mad I threw my remote. The next my wife took the remote and said I’m not touching it… Sure enough, 5 minutes later and she was fuming! We played cards that night. I’m just now realizing that playback quality options are missing… There is no way to force automatic conversion. I can’t navigate this awful app anymore. I can’t get this pissed every time I want to watch my media!!! I’m about ready to just plug my server into my TV in the living room and play using VLC.
This update is trash. EVERYTHING is moved around and several things don’t function at all. I cannot even exit Plex with the remote to use other apps now. I get to the “Choose a Profile” page but can’t quit the app. I have to go POWER CYCLE my Firestick manually! WTF is that crap! I’m going to try and go back to the previous app version. If I can’t I’m thinking my “Plex-Pass” will become a Plex “PASS”. Pisses me off that I bought a lifetime one now. I am NOT a happy customer!
Thank you.
I reinstalled the old version because 2026.15 is complete garbage. The instructions are in the link above. You have to uninstall the new version but it’s pretty quick to reset your preferences once you install 10.30.9.4262 again. One of the plex users created a Downloader code - 9435316 so I used that in Downloader and it worked like a champ. Make sure before you install the old version you turn of the “Automatically Update Apps”. If you don’t do that, of course it will at some point (maybe immediately) re-install the crappy new one. But anyway, My Plex app is back to normal. I’d save the APK too. Good Luck!
At what point do you type in this code?
You type it in the address bar on the Downloader app, instead of having to enter a long URL. But you can copy/paste the address using your phone as a keyboard in FireOS as well.
I agree. This update is terrible. It’s slow, things that were once very useful to me have changed, and then you have to do a lot more clicking to make your selection. Terrifying update. I don’t want to use it anymore if it stays like this.
Thank you! At first, it said the link was removed or no longer valid or something, but I just backspaced over the URL to get rid of the extra stuff and it worked.
You are a genius for doing this.
