If you share a List, anytime that user views that list it’ll contain whatever you’ve added to it.
If you share a List and that user decides to Duplicate that List to be their List, then yes, it’s a copy of your List as it is at that time.
The idea of “following” or “subscribing” (whatever you want to call it) to someone’s List isn’t available yet.
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Yes, feature does not exist for my Android TV or on my Samsung TV, both have the Plex app and not this feature.
I really don’t see this as a useful feature for me, since I don’t share my library. That said, one feature that COULD make lists very valuable is to include the ability to add URL links to videos online, like YouTube videos. I’ve asked for this before and never got a response. I would think this is a very simple addition since you support streaming.
The feature is only available in the “New Experience” apps (so Roku, IOS and Android mobile).
Adding this new feature without it being available in all platforms just adds more confusion to the userbase. Plex would be better off spending time and money on getting the New Experience apps completely out the door before releasing completely new features!
If you use sites like Trakt, Letterboxd, IMDB, MDBLists, MyAnimeList, etc. then this list feature has potential to be great for you. If you don’t use any of those sites then this feature isn’t for you.
I can see a huge advantage to lists in Plex if there is API access. Trakt, Letterboxd, IMDB, and many others have been increasingly restricting their API access, and frequently requiring web scraping to get around restrictions. Many third party tools for Plex use lists from these sites to update content/metadata on a personal Plex Media Server, but are constantly running into API access issues. It would make things much more streamlined with a list in Plex that already that is already matched to Plex metadata.
Lists is clearly designed for folks using Plex VOD services and not local media. Even the documentation and announcement treat “Plex” to mean the VOD service, not the server\client platform. The announcement topic and “Welcome” screen about Lists I got on Roku certainly didn’t make that distinction - though I think it was a good idea to announce the new feature on Roku using that screen (instead of just posting in Forums\Reddit\X).
That is all fine, I’m not dissing on that at all and think Lists will be useful for folks participating in the Discovery, VOD and social aspects of Plex’s business platform. But, I think it would be helpful when presenting documentation and features that it is made more clear about that distinction with what are very different products: Server\Client local media platform vs VOD\Discovery platform. This would be particularly useful, I think, for mixed use folks too. Local only folks can know to dismiss it, VOD folks can know to look for it, and mixed folks can know to keep the difference in mind.
Anyways, I went looking through the feature a bit, on my Roku, just to check it out even though it’s not something I’d likely use and as others noticed it clearly doesn’t integrate with my local media content. Again, that’s fine, but it’s presented as if it should so it created a feeling like “oh right, local media isn’t Plex’s product priority anymore” because the message didn’t include my use as a local media user at all. If it had been presented with that distinction more clearly it woulda felt like less of an intentional disregard and just a different feature for a different product area that I simply am not using myself. At least that’s how it felt for me and maybe others based on some comments here.
It feels like Plex is trying not to make that distinction (or already dismissing PMS-centric folks), maybe to avoid alienating “legacy” server\client base, but to me it seems to end up causing complications for users and customers.
Or maybe because the new Plex communication\marketing\PR employees weren’t around during PMS product focus, they don’t think about it and focus on the VOD stuff because that’s more of their job.
Either way - I think it’d be helpful for both Plex and it’s users\customers to work on presentation of product information a bit more in some of these areas. Just a thought.
Anywho, from what I’m seeing of it, I think it’s a decent feature but would be more useful to be able to Follow or Subscribe to lists. Watchlist and Playlists are already existing personal lists so this new Lists isn’t really expanding on that too much and hopefully the “isn’t available yet” @Atomatth mentioned means it is something that’s upcoming.
I think, as someone else mentioned, it would be extremely complimentary to revisit the “Watch Together” function as it’d lend itself to social groups - cinema and anime clubs come to mind - using a list to coordinate watch events. I personally assumed the watch together feature was removed for licensing issues Plex couldn’t manage (similar to playing streaming music in a restaurant has different licensing rules to streaming at home) but figuring that out if that’s the case, and having a follow\subscribe feature, would make Lists very functional and a good product feature for the VOD platform.
All the text is just me explaining a lot, not ranting or mad about nothin’. Nice too see new stuff coming out.
So far as I know, neither I, nor my users make much use of the Activity Feed. Plex is a streaming service, not a social medial platform.
Now, give me a controllable hub of personal picks that appear on other user’s home screens and I can make great use of that. Lists… how useful is it if we don’t use the social features?
Oh wow, another feature literally nobody asked for. If only Plex had a place where people could request features and those would get added instead of throwing random crap at the wall… oh… wait… 
A little of topic a guess, but you might use a Collection for this if you wanna “feed” titles to your users. You can create an “AmazingRando Monthly Recommendations” collection then set that collection to appear on the user Home and\or Library Recommend screens as it’s own hub row. Then you can update the collection occasionally and the row will update with it. Kinda like when Plex does a “seasonal” row.
I do this with smart collections to create some “random” rows for bubbling up stuff to watch directly on the home screen.
Edit: I just really like this feature so wanted to mention it. 
It’s one feature that’s missing from Emby\Jellyfin and keeps me on Plex - but Emby is testing it in their current beta release. Competition is good for customers! 
Edit2: To clarify - I meant it is me being off topic, not @AmazingRando24
Back when they announced they were going to create all new apps and unify the experience across all platforms it was good news.
Then the first redesigned apps came out and in general, people did not care for them.
The outcry was so bad that the company promised to change course and put photos and music back into the main apps – a promise which has produced no results yet.
Now with Lists appearing only on the new apps, the fragmentation issue which was the whole point of the redesign is arguably worse than ever. It’s very frustrating.
This is useless to me unless I can use it to generate automated and updated lists from reliable sources of things like:
Criterion Collection
Academy Awards
Seasonal Films
I can see myself playing around lists. Items I want to add to my server. Movie Recommendations for users. I’m not gonna bash a feature that I have the choice to use or not. I’m just getting impatient with the roll out of the new app on all platforms. Seems there is a smaller developer team, so let’s focus on the big priority here. IMO.
Ok… I see it now. I create list. I share list via FB or IG. Plex receives more traffic, even if users aren’t tied to a server. Got it.
Start a timer for when this feature is abandoned.
I literally warned everyone in this forum that by having the apps separate, EXACTLY what Apple does, that it puts each of the apps on the back burner and makes Plex treat every singular app as a forgotten middle child when they don’t feel like working on it. Plex Photo’s was a PERFECT example of that happening. By Plex deciding to choose to separate the apps, they can claim that their analytics has told them that usage rates of whatever apps are low, but I’m for certain they’ll totally ignore how much little time and innovation they spent on the singular app such as Plex Photos and that lack luster of features and bug fixes were the actual reasoning for no one wanting to ever use the app in the first place. It gives them the ammunition to sundown those apps, further ruining their entire media server ecosystem that Plex’s entire mission was supposed to be to begin with. Plex made an id0tic move.
I think the idea isn’t too bad BUT it is the wrong time for this.
The Apple TV app is still collecting dust and haven’t been updated for over a year!
The new Apple TV app is still in beta
The new Plex app for iOS is battery hungry and still buggy
The Plex for Mac still has the old Interface
Did I make my point?
No offence. The idea isn’t too bad.
But I think Plex should definitely focus on the client rollout and don’t throw new half baked features to all the users. Better let a hand full of users test this before you activate these tools to all the users.
Dont send an email out announcing a new feature thats not bloody available on all your apps. Its super annoying.
They just want people to use it on the web to spread Plex’s social media exposure.
Oh wow, playlists in 2026? Revolutionary! /s
This really deserved a 4-page slide deck when I opened my app? Don’t pat yourself on the back too hard restoring features you took.
Same enshittification energy as Counter Strike 2 / Overwatch 2 .
