8.23.1: still crashing when viewing tagged photos. Kind of unbelievable that two months have passed already, and there’s been no movement on this at all, for what is seemingly an easy enough fix for an issue that hard-crashes the app.
Worse yet, I’ve recently found out that Plex is forcibly transcoding my photos to 1080p on all devices (including Apple TV 4K!), and there’s no way to disable this. Not even through server profiles and hidden .plist settings, and as others pointed out, this is done on the server and not the clients. It seems clear that Plex doesn’t care about the photo feature anymore, and it’s unfortunate because I really enjoyed using it in the past.