Not like this is a new comment, but holy crap this new Plex app on iOS is atrocious. How do we go back to the old version? I’m about to delete this from my phone all together.
EDIT: I just found this [Downgrade to old iOS Version and turn off updates only for Plex - Howto! - no jailbreak required] and will be doing this asap. Wow, I can’t believe how bad this thing is. You can’t even re-order your personal library choices on that terrible home screen, nor can you see them all in a clean list anymore? This is just a bad design and experience. What happened???
EDIT 2: I’ve since chilled about this. Haha, but really hope things like the forced landscape mode and wonky home screen customization get fixed. Not to mention the broken Live TV listing if you own a tuner like an HD Homerun.
I agree. I was watching a show and I had to put it down to take care of something else (about 5 minutes) and the app auto updated while I was gone. Absolutely ridiculous looking, the three “Libraries” (LiveTV, On Demand and Discover) that I auto-hide on any new Plex device are front and center. I was using subtitles on my media locked to the top of the screen and there is no option to change that now. It seems like the functionality of the previous app has been destroyed. I’ll be looking into alternatives asap and will be getting rid of my Plex Pass, this is not what I signed up for.
Just saw your edit, God, the fact that we have to resort to using iTunes to do this is ridiculous.
And apparently you need a Windows computer which I don’t own… so now I have to mess around with a VM…
This might be one of the worst app updates I’ve ever seen. I’m actually shocked. Hard for me to keep recommending Plex to people if they go from great design to terrible design like this. In fact, I definitely will not be anymore until we see where this goes.
I own a Windows PC, but will be away from my server until roughly May. Maybe I can get one of the alternatives to work on my PC through my remote access but it is such a pain. This is definitely a good reason for me to start searching for other options.
And all the libraries are out of order in the All Libraries list, and you can’t fix it. Someone is asleep at the wheel over there. This is shockingly bad.
FYI, that doesn’t work from the Libraries menu. There’s a bug there. Also that is very not intuitive that you have to long press a “tab” button that’s meant to take you to another section in order to re-order something on the current “tab.” Demerit to whoever had that idea.
Here are more issues:
Forced landscape mode playback….
Live TV listings don’t work…
No way to download a show anymore… only episode by episode??? WTF? EDIT: There is, I was mistaken.
Why was this released? This feels very very beta, maybe even alpha. What a shame.
Agree it is total atrocious.
Also freezes and guide is only showing half page.
Very very slow.
Can’t find where I can see scheduled and recorded program list.
Layout is terrible not logical or easy to find, looks like it was done by a 10 year old with a box of crayons.
I do like the ability to move quickly to different days in the guide but that it about the only thing good with this upgrade.
Would love to go back to previous version.
Ah, that’s too bad. I know I’ve seen a screenshot on another post showing the menu and the entries had the double lines on the left indicating you could grab and drag to reorder things, but I couldn’t find it and pshanew’s post was so clear and concise.
Can you not scroll horizontally in the Live TV listings? Mine is completely broken. If you see that image I posted above, there are no listing and you can’t scroll left/right.
Here’s the same view using the web app on my iPhone. The listings are all there and everything is scrollable. Hard fail on this.
Also now find I cannot get PiP to work any more, just get the spinning wheel.
Was this ever tested before being released, certainly doesn’t look like it.
Am a long long time Plex Pass user and this worst change I’ve seen.
The forced landscape mode might be causing an issue for you. That is one of the first things they need to fix. It doesn’t work like this on phones…. Now you have to swipe from the side to get PiP?? It makes no sense. Did anyone test this before releasing it? (EDIT: ha! Just realized I said the same thing as you wondering if anyone tested this)
Sorry should have said that I’m using it on an iPad.
Have to enlarge to full screen then it give the PiP option but reduces down to corner of screen and sits there with the spinning wheel.
They still monitor these. But they won’t always engage. They probably won’t engage here with me because I’m being a little pissy about this. I admit it. But this is a, frankly speaking, pretty obvious and frustrating experience. I hope they take our bickering and apply it to fixing this.
It’s a real shame they are moving away from the original layout. It was perfect. This new one is a cluttered mess. It really is a shame. They just needed to modernize what they had, not completely reinvent the wheel.
Version 2025.15.0 fixes these issues but I will ask about the order on the Home screen? It does work but the Quick Library menu (Horizontal) does not change order. Only the Vertical order on the Home page.
As for DVR there still some weirdness with DVR, you will need to rebuild the DVR via the Server and restart your iOS device for funtionality to sort it self out. This has been reported and acknowledged.
