Version 6.5.2 is now available.
FIXED:
- Ads could be shown in user library content after finishing playing content with ads.
2 Likes
Version 6.6 is now available.
NEW:
- Show user avatars next to servers on the More screen.
FIXED:
- App would crash when casting Web Shows to Android devices.
- Disabled sources could be incorrectly shown on the More screen.
- Fixed a crash on iOS 9.
- Fixed an issue where titles in the player could be cropped unnecessarily.
- Fixed crash with Enhanced Video Player when the video contains tracks with non-UTF-8 titles.
- Fixed the skip forward button on the iPad mini player.
- Fixes an issue where the player interface could break when returning from the Play Queue.
- Improve browsing performance when the user has a lot of scheduled DVR recordings.
- Message on loading screens would sometimes get wrongly cropped.
- Music wouldn’t resume when playback is paused because audio output device changed (e.g. headphones disconnected).
- Removing a managed user left some records of the user.
- Search results couldn’t be added to an ongoing Play Queue.
- Show error screen when the Live TV Guide gets no data from PMS.
- Skip preplay when selecting currently airing items on the EPG.
- Sometimes the app would increase power consumption when having trouble to connect to a Plex Media Server.
- The app as remote controller would show the wrong duration while playing ads.
- The app would sometimes crash when searching.
- The playlists page now updates correctly when adding and deleting playlists.
- Volume slider wouldn’t work with Chromecast.
- Fix layout regression that caused hub cells to have wrong sizes on iOS 9 devices.
2 Likes
Version 6.7 is now available.
NEW:
- Added support for HDR playback with the Enhanced Video Player.
- Advanced automatic reloading updates anything on-screen when server content is added, deleted, or changed.
FIXED:
- NEW badge would sometimes be cropped in non-English languages.
- Old library names would incorrectly be shown for offline libraries.
- Small scroll performance improvement for iOS 9.
- Some camera roll images would not load.
- Sometimes “Prefer Offline Content” setting wouldn’t work with Podcasts.
- Sometimes empty content views would be missing their images.
- Stored customizations are now reset when signing out.
- The sidebar now scrolls correctly while reordering sources.
- The volume slider had a white background on iOS 9.
Note: This will be the last version of the app with support for iOS 9.
Version 6.7.1 is now available.
FIXED:
- Restrict Facebook SDK for login with Facebook only.
Version 6.7.2 is now available.
FIXED:
- Shaking the device would show an internal settings screen incorrectly.
1 Like
Version 6.8 is now available.
NEW:
- Improved controls for Companion and Chromecast.
- Seeking thumbnails are now presented faster. Requires pre-generating video thumbnails from the server.
FIXED:
- Enhanced Video Player would show duplicated subtitles and eventually crash under some circumstances.
- Hide signal quality when the tuner doesn’t provide it.
- Sometimes servers couldn’t be accessed if their addresses changed.
Version 6.9 is now available.
NEW:
- Added support for Sign in with Apple.
- Removed custom user interface for News. Now it behaves like other content sources in the app.
- Search by type now includes a Playlists option.
FIXED:
- Fixed a bug where the wrong theme music might play when navigating back to a show.
- Fixed an issue searching for items containing apostrophes.
- Improved Watch From Start when dealing with back to back recordings.
- Sometimes the app would crash trying to play a video after playing content with ads.
- Sometimes the app would crash when stopping video playback.
- Summaries were incorrectly parsed as markdown, causing some visual errors.
Version 6.10 is now available.
NEW:
- This will be the last version of the app with support for iOS 10 & 11.
- Added new video quality settings for 4K media.
- Re-enabled certain Facebook reporting events for a limited time on new app installs. Events remain disabled for app updates.
- The default video quality for remote servers is 3Mbps.
- Enabled casting Live TV to Chromecast receivers.
FIXED:
- All Episodes list showed duplicated information.
- The TIDAL icon is now shown in the sidebar for TIDAL sources.
- When the app is not activated, playback would pause periodically without apparent reason. The alert explaining why would be shown behind the actual player.
- The Enhanced Video Player wouldn’t play PCM audio tracks.
- Accepting a friend invitation would sometimes not work.
3 Likes
Version 6.10.1 is now available.
FIXED:
- The app would crash at launch on 32-bit devices.
Version 6.11 is now available.
NEW:
- Dropped support for iOS 10 & 11.
- The Enhanced Video Player is now available to all users and enabled by default. It can be disabled at any time from the app Advanced Settings.
- Share links to free Movies and TV shows and open them on the web or directly into the item in the app.
FIXED:
- Fixed an issue that caused the library screen to scroll to the top unexpectedly.
- Live TV streams played with the Enhanced Video Player wouldn’t show the right bitrate info.
- Music and photo playback from root folder in folder view model would fail.
- Portrait camera roll videos wouldn’t use the whole screen with the Enhanced Video Player.
- Seek thumbnails were wrong after skipping to the next video in the play queue.
- The app would crash playing music with visualizers enabled.
- Fixed an issue where the Collections tab wasn’t visible with recent Plex Media Server versions.
1 Like
Version 6.11.1 is now available.
FIXED:
- The app would sometimes crash at launch.
Version 6.12 is now available.
FIXED:
- Fix an issue where albums could crossfade between tracks when they should not.
- Fixed an issue causing the device name to not show correctly in Plex Web for Live TV playback.
- Swipe gesture to dismiss Playback Settings or Info screens wouldn’t resume video playback.
- The Enhanced Video Player wouldn’t play unoptimized MP4 files smoothly.
Version 6.12.1 is now available.
FIXED:
- Fixed an issue that prevented browsing libraries by folder.
- Fixed browsing libraries from older versions of PMS.
Version 7.0 is now available.
NEW:
- You can now invite someone to be a friend without also needing to share a personal library with them.
FIXED:
- Fix black screen using HDMI out with the Enhanced Video Player.
- Fixed an issue that could cause hub scroll positions to be lost when reloading.
- Fixed an issue where context menus could get stuck on screen.
- Friend request push notifications wouldn’t have a clear message.
- Sometimes ad info is displayed before the ad is actually played.
Version 7.1 is now available.
NEW:
- Updated media detail screens with new unified platform designs.
FIXED:
- Users would be kicked out of the Watch Together session after some events during playback (changing quality or audio/subtitle streams, transient playback errors…)
- Watch together invitations weren’t removed when expired.
1 Like
Version 7.2 is now available.
NEW:
- Browse and play Plex Movies & TV without creating an account.
- Friends can be invited to an ongoing Watch Together session.
- Show a countdown before playing an ad.
FIXED:
- Albums on artist detail screens would show the artist on every album.
- Fix an issue that could cause a small white line on media detail screens when the system Bold Text accessibility setting is enabled.
- Fixed an issue that could cause covers to be cut off in Library screens.
- Fixed an issue that could cause library tabs to display incorrect content.
- Fixed playback of videos in photo libraries.
- Make the “Skip Intro” button available in the on-screen controls during the whole intro.
- Opening people in the cast hub failed under certain circumstances.
- Receiving content from online sources from a Companion app wouldn’t work.
- Sources were sometimes not refreshed reliably when opening More screen.
- Subtitles with Thai characters would look wrong in the new video player.
- Text on the play button would be badly clipped in some languages.
- The Facebook login button could be truncated on smaller screens.
- The user picker now correctly shows a loading indicator when picking a new user.
- Videos from camera roll would play without audio.
- Watch Together didn’t appear for some users.
Version 7.2.1 is now available.
FIXED:
- Transcoded video playback wouldn’t work with the new video player when DNS Rebinding Protection is enabled.
Version 7.3 is now available.
NEW:
- Added Sleep Timer for audio and video playback.
FIXED:
- 4K video quality was limited to 3840x2160. Now it goes up to 4096x2160.
- Episode detail screens for special episodes would not show they were specials.
- Fixed a very rare issue that could cause pinned sources or other stored settings to be lost.
- Fixed some problems with reloading after deleting content on another device.
- Home screen hubs from Movies & TV On Plex will now show On Plex in the hub title if shown alongside hubs from a Plex Media Server.
- Newly added libraries from owned servers will now only be pinned to the sidebar by default if they are set to “Include in Home Screen”
- Opening a person in the cast hub might incorrectly load in list view.
- Playlists tab wasn’t accessible in synced content.
- Pressing Play Next Episode on a TV Show would sometimes play the wrong episode.
- Sometimes the app wouldn’t connect to servers when a secure connection became unavailable.
- The play button on a TV Show would sometimes show “Next Episode” for shows that hadn’t been started.
- Watch Together notifications were covered by the notch.
- When joining a paused Watch Together session, playback would start from the beginning automatically.
- When scrolling quickly through a library screen items might briefly appear in the wrong shape.
- Fixed a crash that could occur after editing the sources in the sidebar.
- Fixed crash on iPads with iOS 12 when the device is rotated while playing a video.
2 Likes
Version 7.3.1 is now available.
NEW:
- All-you-can-watch Live TV is available now. Stream 80+ channels for the whole family, instantly. Kids, news, game shows, anime, sports, cooking — it’s all on Plex and ready for the watching.
FIXED:
- Show stubbed airings in guide when gaps are detected.
1 Like
Version 7.4 is now available.
NEW:
- Added File Info button with more in-depth information about personal video files.
- You can now secondary click items to show the context menu with an iPad pointer.
- This will be the last release to support Plex Media Server versions prior to 1.15.2.
FIXED:
- Fixed some places where albums might incorrectly show a duration of 0 minutes.
- Made it possible to update your Plex Media Server from in the app when it’s running an unsupported version.
- Moving the iPad pointer in a video player will now show the controls to allow more easily selecting controls with the pointer.
- Selecting videos in the post-play screen would always start them from the beginning.
- Videos played with Chromecast couldn’t be stopped.
