### Author:  [@mastoul](https://forums.plex.tv/u/mastoul)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2026, 7:22am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-for-apple-tv-is-old/936140/1 "2026-02-07T07:22:49Z")
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Hello,
I am seeing that the Plex for iOS version includes changes also for Apple TV. But the Apple TV version I can install is more than one year old. Am I missing something? Why I cannot install the latest 2026 version also to my Apple TV?
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### Author:  [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2026, 8:27am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-for-apple-tv-is-old/936140/2 "2026-02-07T08:27:38Z")
Apple is currently developing the „new experience“ app for the Apple TV. That version is currently only available as a separate TestFlight preview (not the regular beta program). Despite Plex removing inactive testers, the preview is usually full or hard to get into.
Somehow Plex have merged the release notes of the iOS/Android beta with that of the Apple TV preview. Hence we’re seeing some of the stuff they’re preparing for the next preview release before it’s made available as a preview release (preview on tvOS is still on version 2025.30.0). I guess there’ll be a new preview release soon as the previous one is about to expire.
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### Author:  [@mastoul](https://forums.plex.tv/u/mastoul)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2026, 8:43am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-for-apple-tv-is-old/936140/3 "2026-02-07T08:43:05Z")
Ok thanks for the clarification
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### Author:  [@our\_conf](https://forums.plex.tv/u/our_conf)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2026, 12:32pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-for-apple-tv-is-old/936140/4 "2026-02-07T12:32:19Z")
Wait ‘til you get the new experience. Then you’ll likely wish it hadn’t updated…
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### Author:  [@jonare77](https://forums.plex.tv/u/jonare77)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2026, 10:05pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-for-apple-tv-is-old/936140/5 "2026-03-16T22:05:54Z")
I havent tried the new app on appletv, i have seen It on iphone. Why do everyone think that the new app is bad? im still on the old one and was hoping for something better. I have locked my appletv on 18 fw just in case also. Are Infuse the way to go?, or Jellyfin+Infuse.
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### Author:  [@Menel](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Menel)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2026, 1:03pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-for-apple-tv-is-old/936140/6 "2026-03-17T13:03:52Z")
Until 2026.2.0 pushed to beta/testflight relatively recently, EAC3 was broken and would not playback, a very common audio codec. A year of broken playback wears on people. It does seem to finally be pretty good.
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### Author:  [@twntyfive2life](https://forums.plex.tv/u/twntyfive2life)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2026, 4:58pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-for-apple-tv-is-old/936140/7 "2026-05-18T16:58:15Z")
Will we ever get a release? Is this a dead platform for Plex?
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### Author:  [@Menel](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Menel)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2026, 5:37pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-for-apple-tv-is-old/936140/8 "2026-05-18T17:37:22Z")
> [@twntyfive2life](#):
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> Is this a dead platform for Plex?
Yes. That’s why they have new builds almost weekly of the beta
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### Author:  [@twntyfive2life](https://forums.plex.tv/u/twntyfive2life)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2026, 5:49pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-for-apple-tv-is-old/936140/9 "2026-05-18T17:49:35Z")
That doesn’t matter if no one can access it. The current app hasn’t seen an update since 01/2025 and the beta is over two years old.
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### Author:  [@SuperSecret](https://forums.plex.tv/u/SuperSecret)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2026, 7:57pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-for-apple-tv-is-old/936140/10 "2026-05-18T19:57:36Z")
IMO they are holding off as long as possible to release because they know, without a shadow of a doubt, that once they push out this “update” they are going to have a torrent of angry users in the forums complaining. Just as much, if not more than when they released Roku. It won’t matter though because they will just flag and delete all the negative feedback anyway.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2026, 7:58pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-for-apple-tv-is-old/936140/11 "2026-08-16T19:58:02Z")
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