@elan there are functions that I want to switch on or off on every device. There are also functions that I want to show on some devices only. I don’t want to fiddle around in the account settings to switch them off while I use my tablet - but I want to have it on my living room FireTV.
Visual appearance of buttons/tabs is not equal to activating/deactivating features for accounts.
Please reconsider this.
I even have my libraries sorted differently from device to device since I know my habits best and they differ from device to device.
I can understand that from a developer’s perspective, it is the easiest way to configure everything globally or on account level.
For me, it takes away some flexibility.
Some words about this would be nice. I can understand that ATM this is not top priority (since so many content related problems need to be fixed), but setting the focus to “more flexibility rather than more unifomity” would be nice, too.
Oh hey, you can be like me and spend over an hour on the phone with 80 year olds trying to get them to uninstall the app, install the old version, then figure out what the hell their passwords were.
I feel you. At least your folks can (maybe?) still manage their own affairs (apart from tech stuff). My mom has lived with me (just me) since Labor Day weekend of 2020 due to memory issues. It’s… challenging sometimes.
Back to the “New Experience”: any plans to bring double-tap back in the Android app?
Ok, so I tried using the new app on my tablet that I used less and thought I would just put up with the app as-is since I forgot to prevent it from updating.
Holy crap, I couldn’t even get past the new experience screen. Tapping on everything did nothing, even the “Skip” button.
I force closed the app and tried again, which thankfully bypassed the new experience screen, but then clicking on my user profile once again did nothing.
The app was completely locked up and non-responsive, though I didn’t get the normal faded UI to denote an app as unresponsive.
I finally just uninstalled it and installed the old client, which worked just fine.
What did they do to make the app performance that bad?
the menu to adjust play options like sleep mode and playback speed doesn’t come up on android phones (Galaxy S10, A52s), i have to pull it up from nearly invisible at the bottom of the screen. It works correctly on a Galaxy Tab 3 Active
Tabs in the libraries don’t remember the last setting. They always start in “recommended” which i don’t use. Please remember the category like Mediathek or Categories again
The Thumbnails are much too big, i just see three entries per row. There is also no option to adjust like in web interface. We are not blind.
Why is there a “browse libraries” in the middle auf the home screen? There is an extra tab for this
i don’t see the media playback information anymore. We need this to see if media is transcoded and why
I dont’t like that music and photos are now extra apps but this is not a bug i guess
Plex really did forget why they exist. This update is hot garbage.
I usually sit back with all the updates, everyone’s gotta make money but jesus christ this update is trash. Completely forgot why they became what they are, and dove head first into making enemies of their core userbase.
If you need money that bad, just tell everyone what the subscription cost would have to be and we’ll deal. I would gladly pay a subscription for the version of plex I had three months ago.
No continue watching from my library in the app? What am I even using the app for anymore? It literally serves zero purpose for me now.
The problem with the new app apart from the intentionelly removed features (like “Music”, “Watch Together”, “automatic downloads”, “library pinning” and so on) is that many features that were NOT intentionally removed are mostly broken (because the app is really still in Alpha state).
So some of the things people complain about in the new app are planned, but some are not.
There still is “Continue Watching” in the new app, so if you are not seeing that, something is broken.
Have you favorited any of your libraries (tap and hold the Libraries icon at the bottom of the app)? I think that might fix your Continue Watching hub (mine is working fine).
Ah! What a genius. Thank you, between this and disabling all of the other live TV and plex provided libraries, I feel like I’m getting back to what I expected.
What a royal pain in the ass experience though. New users, maybe, but old users? This feels like a forced attempt to get people to use their pushed services.
After using the app for a while, I’m really missing the left sidebar which allowed me to keep libraries easily accessible from the home screen. The horizontally scrolling list of libraries is much worse.
Any updates on when the full download functionality will be available again, especially download the next x unwatched episodes (TV) This is my most used feature and there’s been no commitment to add it back in. This would be more useful that download a season or series for those of us who watch on the go and wish our devices to update themselves as we watch media across multiple devices.
Been a LONG time Plex user and this is, by far, the worst change that they have ever made. The playback on my M4 iPad pro is absolute garbage now. Everything I play seems to play at some weird, choppy framerate or something, it’s absolutely horrible. I’ve resorted to just using VLC over a VPN instead of Plex.
Maybe I’m missing something, but is there a way for the last few search criteria to be saved as with the old Android app? As in, if I searched for a word/name in the app yesterday, I hit the magnifying glass icon and it would still be there today if I hadn’t searched for more than a couple of other things in the meantime.
*Incredibly slow navigation and frequent freezing and needing to force close. And I’m running it on a Shield Pro, can’t imagine how it runs on a less powerful Android box.
*App randomly crashing and restarting
*Covers not loading or loading extremely slow
*Wtf happened to the voice search feature?!
And they want people to pay more for this? Glad I bought my Plexpass like 10 years ago.
I’m doing the same, but for me it was a secondary reason.
I recently had an issue with internet service being unstable or completely out for two days and the Plex server wasn’t usable at all. I know you can make config changes to allow non-auth’d local access, but that doesn’t help when you have managed users. My Jellyfin install I’ve been running off and on for a few years (mostly to monitor development) worked fine with internet down, so I set up new profiles for other household members and introduced them to it (I had to wait for a blip of “internet is working again for now” to get the client installed on a couple devices).
So now that my Jellyfin is essentially a working backup server I’ve been spending a bunch of time on it, adding the music collections of the others, working on image assets (posters/backdrops/logos), and duplicating some of my collections from the Plex side.
I’m trying to be patient but this new IOS app is a nightmare, especially for Live TV. The issues I’m having are only with the IOS app, not on the web app or tvOS.
Issue 1 - I’m having trouble using multiple HDHomerun tuners in the IOS app Live TV section. The IOS app will tune channels from one tuner, but not my other tuner (Flex and Quatro). I have to use two tuners and two antennas to receive all the channels in my area.
Issue 2 - The Grid Guide will not update for times more than a few hours into the future at best. The Guide is unusable in this state.
Issue 3 - tuning live tv is painfully slow (iPhone 14)
Issue 4 - I HATE the real estate the preview screen consumes in the guide grid. Make using the preview screen in the Live TV grid optional.
Issue 5 - I HATE the scrolling buttons in the live tv guide grid. We used to be able to swipe forward and backward in the legacy app which was much more convenient than the new apps navigation buttons.
