Your music player on my iPhone X has no volume slider anymore! I am not sure, but I think since the new utility menu at the bottom appeared, the slider dissappeared - even though there is enough room for it. I can only change the volume by using the phones hardware keys or the slider in the control center. In the video-player the volume slider is right where it should be.
Please bring back the slider in the next iOS bug-fix! Thank you!
Apparently this is by design. (Donāt shoot the messenger please). For music playback and and adjusting the volume you will need to use the volume buttons on the iPhone. Alternatively, when the iPhone is locked, a volume slider will show up on the lock screen player after tapping on the screen.
This seems like a different issue (and one that I canāt replicate). Could you start a new thread and be sure to post the version number of the app and a screenshot?
Yeah, I know, thank you. I can also use my watch or the buttons on my Beats, but why would they do that? There is more than enough room and the video-player still has the slider. Itās just somewhat annoying to be forced to leave the screen to adjust the volume.
I also donāt like the new iOS app update that removed the volume bar. I donāt feel I have as much granular volume control and for users that may have broken volume buttons they would then be stuck to using just the lock screen volume sliderā¦not ideal! loved the area where the volume slider was before - please bring back!
Yes, thank you! But the Plex-Team seems to find the idea of having the volume controls removed a great improvement. I still canā t see why. I received an email from Plex today in which they presented this as a new feature. Holy shā¦!
I really donāt get Plexās design choices. WHY is removing the volume slider a good idea? Now I canāt even see what volume I am at without adjusting it.
Iāve lost volume slider on all three of my iOS devices (iPad Pro, iPhone Xs, and iPad Air 2). Please Plex bring this on screen control back or at least make it a feature the user can choose to enable or disable. This isnāt something we will all come to appreciate over time.
Update:
Email response from Plex
āThe on-screen slider control was intentionally removed to make space for other things in the UI. Itās not a temporary change.ā
The only way I could find on the Plex site. Billing.
Further interaction:
Me:
āTo be clear the only way to change the volume now is using the external volume buttons or an inline volume control on wired headphones (if it has volume control)? There is no way to modify volume on the screen of Plex application when watching a movie, playing music, etcā¦?ā
Plex response:
āYou can use the volume control in the regular iOS āControl Centerā. As mentioned, if youād like to discuss things, please visit our friendly forums. Thanks!ā
Well add me to the list of people very annoyed by this change! The volume slider had a great feature where you could move your finger down to perform fine-grained control over the volume. Now thereās no way to do that.
As someone who cares a lot about functional user interface design, Plexās decisions with the UI frequently baffle me. Why remove something as frequently used and useful as the volume slider?
It provides very important information: what volume the device is at. Now if a video is going to play back at maximum volume ā something that could be very disturbing ā thereās no way to know until the audio blares through the speakers very loudly. With a visible slider Iāve caught and prevented that multiple times.
And more importantly, changing the volume is one of the most important and frequently performed tasks when watching a video. Youād want there to be a control for that which makes it easy to adjust! Especially since sometimes the volume buttons on the device arenāt easily accessible or functional.
To repeat another user here: less is not necessarily more!
