The app is completely broken, more than Half the features are missing, Oh wait I’m sorry “ Not added yet”, Except they have been added, Everything worked fine last week until you pushed an update of a broken beta that doesn’t work. Downloaded subtitles disappear, Literally a 10th of the options And customization that was in the old app (power users rejoice lmaooooo what a load) Live TV ad slopvertisment pinned To the bottom right taking up a third of your NAV screen at all times. 99% of your serious users are rating this “update” Which is actually just a rolled out broken beta, as 0.5/10. That really should mean something to you guys, Even to your private equity suitbags. Who are pushing this nonsense. Gutting the company for a quick buck Doesn’t really make sense but if that’s what @Elan wants to do I guess it’s his business decision.
@victoriou31 I’ve been running a JF Server side by side with my plex since discovering they all are forks off of Kodi (7 years now).
Pro’s:
Great as an offline backup for Plex (as others have stated)
The Theme-ability of it, you can use regular CSS to tweak it to your liking (not a cooperate panel deciding for you).
Skip Intro has come along way and is almost as robust as Plex.
For the amount of Official & Third Party Clients/Apps to find what works for you.
Self hosted M3U TV style and IPTV works well if you have the time/patience to set it up properly.
No/Low cost (I do pay for a yearly Schedules Direct account for my OTA guide Data but not everyone needs that. I cut the cord 7 years ago and do not pay for a streaming service).
Neutral:
For Audiobooks (IMHO) still needs a lot of work (but Plex isn’t getting it done either ) but it is usable.
Live (OTA) works but recent issues with Schedules Direct and SD-JSON seeing JF requests as DDOS and have been annoying (but there is a workaround that seems to have fixed the issue with me anyway).
Remote Access falls into this category for me since I just use Tailscale and a different Client/App (on my devices to access the Tailscale IP when outside of my home network).
Plugins are hit and miss (for me anyway) some do what they say some won’t even work of fail to update.
Cons:
Does have a learning curve and is not just Out-of-the Box Plug-n-Play as Plex.
Manual Updates (more a neutral for me, but I could see it as a Con for many).
Smart TV’s are up in the air if there is a native client available or working properly.
As you said it isn’t as polished as Plex.
Just some of my thoughts on it. I use my JF daily but for my family who expects just a “open it and it works just like corporate streaming service” experience we use Plex.
But if things go where I they feel are going, we’ll see.
Please, how do I go back to the previous version?
This new version is broken, I can’t play moves now. They freeze unless I manually drop the resolution and quality. Then they randomly drop out and say the movie has finished half way through when it hasn’t.
I’m running on an iPad Pro with the latest version of iPadOS.. I’m connecting over my local LAN to my Plex Server. The Plex server runs on a Mac Mini.
It worked PERFECTLY last night. After upgrading it’s unusable
Why did you get rid of the button to switch from full screen to the small window? Now I have to rely on swiping up and sometimes it goes to the small window. Usually the video goes away completely and the audio plays. I’ve also had it go to the small window but just black with audio still playing. How could you release this rotten potato?
Plex, please leave me with the “Old Experience” on my Roku and WebUI. If you remove the DVR Schedule and Recording Priority like you have in the iOS App (Why?!! ), then you will have effectively removed OTA Recording .
Really annoying. If it was just some missing features, but it just doesn’t work.
I tried to play some video, after a few seconds it keeps restarting to where it started, sometimes even jumps head then goes back.
Another thing I’ve had on this new iOS version is horrific battery life playing back local H265 MKV 1080p video. In the old app, I usually had it running in the background with the screen off so I could listen over Bluetooth headphones. In just over three hours, the app drained my 16 PM from 100% to 40%, that’s just insane.
The old app, I could easily do six hours with only a 30% drain. On the new app, my CPU is running fairly warm, so I’m assuming it’s doing some transcoding. It’s as if there’s no hardware acceleration being used.
If I watch the same videos in the VLC app, I’m draining my battery at only three to four percent an hour, which is even better than the old app, and my phone remains cold. Between the non-intuitive UI, very poor battery life, and missing features, the new app should never have been released for now. It needs much more time for some polishing.
Where I am currently has no ad blocking. A restart of a few thinks it now returns nothing to cast to at all. No airplay devices show up and there are two on this network. I am using it remotely via Tailscale and a custom URL. I can get it airplaying via using the system airplay on Phone and live tv in Plex but it won’t stream any of my movies. I can only get it to work via iOS screen mirroring. All other apps have no issues and I can airplay audio fine via PlexAmp.
I agree, the app needs to be reverted to the old one for the time being until more bugs are worked out, UI cleaned up and features that have been in the old app for a very long time and removed from the new one added back. Just look at all the recent reviews on iOS, it’s practically hated by the majority, it’s a disaster.