Version 5.11.1 is now available
FIXED:
- Fixed crash on iOS 9 and 10 when trying to resume a video.
Version 5.12 is now available
NEW:
- Added Subtitle Position setting for Enhanced Video Player.
- Allow playback control when using external keyboards.
- Party on your phone with audio visualizers!
- Subtitle Color and Position are used when casting to a ChromeCast.
FIXED:
- Artists & TV shows containing a large number of items weren’t displayed correctly.
- Fixed issue with long album names overlapping number of tracks.
- Improved signal quality calculation for Live TV streams and renamed from “Signal Strength” to “Signal Quality”
- Improvement subtitle style matching in Enhanced Video Player.
- Large improvement to app launch time.
2 Likes
Version 5.12.1 is now available
FIXED:
- Fixed pre-roll video not showing when Cinema Trailers are disabled inside the app settings.
1 Like
Version 5.13 is now available.
NEW:
- Auto Play setting can be changed when casting to compatible players.
FIXED:
- An erroneous “Unplayed” filter was shown at the bottom of the list when filtering TV libraries.
- Closed captions could not be disabled during playback.
- Fixed an issue where Podcast hubs might show (null) in the title.
- Music playback might not resume after it had been interupted by other playback.
- Sometimes video playback would be stuck at the beginning in transcoded streams.
- Sometimes when playback finishes with the Enhanced Video player, the app would get stuck.
- Sync button was not always disabled for content that cannot be synced.
- The app would start videos and podcasts from the beginning instead of resuming them in some situations.
2 Likes
Version 5.14 is now available.
NEW:
- Added support for iPad Split View and Slide Over.
- Auto Play setting can be changed when casting to Chromecast.
- Subtitle Position setting can be changed when casting to compatible players and Chromecast.
FIXED:
- Changed the skip previous threshold time from 3 to 5 seconds.
- Fixed an issue where home hubs might fail to load in some circumstances.
- Fixed crash that could occur when switching to another player.
- Fixed crash trying to play videos under some circumstances.
- Fixed filter screen performing 2 requests to PMS.
- Renamed audio boost setting to “Multi-Channel Audio Boost” and only show it when applicable (when audio is converted from multi-channel to stereo).
- Sign out the user when restoring an iCloud backup to a different device.
- Sometimes when playback finishes with the Enhanced Video player, the app would get stuck.
- The Enhanced Video Player would show “slow connection” errors unnecessarily.
- The user picker now shows a message if you cannot change users.
1 Like
Version 5.15 is now available.
NEW:
- Added a custom volume change indicator to the video player, no longer shows full controls over the video when changing the volume.
- Changed video player interface to introduce the new playback modifiers.
- Improved discoverability of playback modifiers in the music player.
FIXED:
- Cache the last play queue to restore it more quickly on app resume.
1 Like
Version 5.15.1 is now available.
FIXED:
- Fixed crash attempting to play content without signing in.
Version 5.16 is now available.
FIXED:
- Allow removing TIDAL tracks that were added to a library.
- Available sources now load quicker.
- Don’t show thumbnails or controls between music videos.
- Fixed problem playing video files with TrueHD audio streams with the Enhanced Video Player.
- Hide audio player options that do not work when playing on remote players.
- Playing a playlist while connected to a remote player could fail.
- Removed the “Lock to Landscape” setting on iPad (it’s still available on iPhone). Unfortunately this feature is not compatible with the recently added Split View support. Instead, we recommend using the iOS setting available in Control Center to lock the device orientation.
- Show more accurate warning message when non-server based content buffers.
- The experimental video player would be offered to devices that are not supported.
- When casting audio always continue from where it was instead of restarting.
Version 5.16.1 is now available
FIXED:
- The play/pause button should not become unresponsive when playing audio over Bluetooth.
Version 5.17 is now available
NEW:
- Face ID / Touch ID can be enabled to login to PIN protected users.
FIXED:
- Buffering alerts could be shown incorrectly when playing synced content.
- Correctly show how much of a music track is buffered.
- Fixed an issue where password autofill would only fill out the username field.
- Fixed an issue where the user image was positioned incorrect after accessing account settings.
- Fixed issues creating or modifying playlists when using multiple item selection, and improved default playlist titles.
- It wasn’t possible to restore your default homescreen after removing all content.
5 Likes
Version 5.17.1 is now available
FIXED:
- Changing volume when casting to Chromecast may crash the app.
Version 5.18 is now available.
FIXED:
- Audio playback would not adapt quality when connectivity changed.
- Due to compatibility issues, Enhanced Video Player will be disabled when “Automatically Adjust Quality” setting is enabled. We’re working on fixing this incompatibility.
- Fixed an issue accessing Artist Radio.
- Fixed an issue where News videos might show a 0 second duration.
- Fixed error when attempting playback of a video file with a TrueHD audio stream from a remote server.
- Remote control from the web app reflects playback state more accurately.
- Show the video info overlay at the end of music videos as well as the start.
- Video player controls would change size under some circumstances.
Version 6.0 is now available.
NEW:
Plex’s new iOS experience with many major enhancements including:
- Customizable sidebar navigation.
- Ability to pin your favorite libraries from all your servers to the sidebar.
- Reorder your libraries in the sidebar.
- Quick access to all the rest of your media through the “More” menu item.
- Redesigned tab views that remember your previous view within each library (can be controlled via setting).
- Added the ability to manage users, sharing, and restrictions.
FIXED:
- Fixed “Play Versions” menu identifying synced media as “Original”.
- Fixed crash when you stop controlling your device with the web app.
- Movies sometimes wouldn’t play from the beginning when cinema trailers are enabled.
- Playback Info screen now indicates when the current video is played from your phone instead of from a server.
- Playback info for videos inside photo libraries was incomplete.
- Search would return no results for synced content when the device is offline.
- Show context menu option to resume audio tracks when library is set to save progress.
- Sometimes the playback info screen wouldn’t show the video resolution with the Enhanced Video Player.
- The albums grid in the artist preplay could sometimes be tiny in split screen on iPad.
5 Likes
Version 6.1 is now available.
FIXED:
- Change default remote audio playback quality on Wi-Fi to original. This can be changed in the Settings > Quality menu.
- Fixed an issue preventing swipe-to-delete from working on the home hub reorder screen.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the play state of synced items not to sync back to the server.
- Having a linked TIDAL account which was expired could have caused 30 second previews to not work.
- The sync activity spinner was much too big. Deflated it to normal size.
- The “Playlists” tab would sometimes be missing for synced content.
- Sometimes the alphabet index bar would disappear when selecting the Library tab.
- Fix Live TV playback when Enhanced Player is disabled.
- Fixed an issue that could prevent synced music from playing.
3 Likes
Version 6.2 is now available.
NEW:
- Record Live TV directly from the player.
FIXED:
- Automatically pause video playback when headphones are disconnected.
- Cancelling a recording would show the wrong message.
- DVR Schedule/Priority tabs would show up for restricted users with no DVR access.
- Don’t show post-play screen with Web Shows.
- Enhanced video player would pause automatically after skipping to another video.
- Fix an issue that could cause the wrong number of columns to show in grid views on iPad when in landscape orientation.
- Shuffling podcasts would fail.
- Sometimes duration values for podcasts in the player could have been incorrect.
- User avatar is shown when sharing a library.
- Fixed crash when sometimes switching from the Guide tab in a DVR source.
- Fixed a crash that could occur accessing Podcasts.
- Skipping next repeatedly in the audio player with repeat enabled could have caused a crash.
4 Likes
Version 6.3 is now available.
FIXED:
- Enhanced Video Player wouldn’t render non-UTF-8 subtitles correctly.
- Fixed an issue preventing the login buttons from showing on iOS 9 / 10.
- Fixed an issue where multiple DVRs might not show a subtitle in the sidebar.
- Fixed an issue where sync might not update when coming online.
- Fixed crash on iOS 9 when scrolling the sidebar.
- Fixed screen titles being misplaced on iOS 9.
- Fixed unpleasant loading animation on iOS 9.
- Inviting a new user may lead to an empty screen.
- The Enhanced Player wouldn’t play trailers or extras when DNS Rebinding protection is enabled.
- Trying to create an existing managed user leads to a blocked state.
- We had to disable links in summaries on iOS 13.0 and 13.1 due to a bug in iOS that we couldn’t work around. The bug has been fixed in iOS 13.2, and links will work there again. Sorry for any inconvenience!
- Fixed seeking transcoded/remuxed videos with the original video player.
1 Like
Version 6.4 is now available.
NEW:
- New and improved poster styles.
FIXED:
- Video playback would auto resume when paused with AirPlay or Picture in Picture.
- Video quality couldn’t change during playback if “Limit Cellular Data” was disabled.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when cleaning up old servers that can no longer be accessed.
2 Likes
Version 6.4.1 is now available.
FIXED:
- Fixed crash playing videos with the original player. This brings back the “auto-resume” issue with AirPlay and Picture in Picture. That will be addressed in an upcoming release.
- Fixed an issue when logging in as a user for the first time with an offline server.
3 Likes
Version 6.5 is now available.
NEW:
- Added Companion support for Web Shows.
- Added volume slider to the playback menu to allow easier remote volume control, and fine grained local volume control.
- Automatic Home mode that seamlessly configures your home screen based on your pinned sources. Upcoming versions of Plex Media Server will allow unpinned sources to be filtered from your home screen. Automatic Home can be turned on or off from the Home context menu.
- Improved Search screen with Pinned Sources search, type-based searches, and more.
- New Live TV guide with improved performance.
FIXED:
- Change the default for Volume Leveling in the audio player settings to be enabled.
- External subtitles wouldn’t work with the Enhanced Video Player if DNS Rebinding Protection is enabled in your network.
- Fixed a layout glitch when initially displaying Continue Watching items on iPhones with larger screen sizes.
- Fixed crash sometimes when trying to play videos.
- Fixed crash with original video player under some circumstances.
- Fixed visual glitch when reordering recording priorities.
- Live TV and transcoded streams wouldn’t play with the Enhanced Video Player when DNS Rebinding Protection is enabled in your network.
- Music would not resume after keeping the app in background for a few minutes.
- Sometimes the music bitrate limit for cellular connections wouldn’t be applied.
- Thumbnail placeholders might disappear when browsing content.
- iMDB logo would wrongly show up when a movie had no valid rating.
2 Likes
Version 6.5.1 is now available.
NEW:
- Plex now streams thousands of movies and TV shows from filmmakers around the globe. From Bollywood to Hollywood, Cannes to Japan. Classics. Animation. Family friendly content. Documentaries. Musicals. There’s something for everyone. Save your place on your phone and continue on your TV - Plex works across all devices. Check our blog for more info: https://www.plex.tv/blog/boom-we-just-dinosized-your-movie-collection-for-free/
FIXED:
- Fixed a crash on iOS 9.
- News and Web Shows could start paused.
- Removing a managed user left some records of the user.
- Show error screen when the Live TV Guide gets no data from PMS.
- Skip preplay when selecting currently airing items on the EPG.
- Volume slider wouldn’t work with Chromecast.
1 Like
