Player version: current ios
Hey Plexppl, could you please remove the big red warning if I don’t give the app local network access.
I don’t need the plex player to have local network access and I don’t need the big red warning everytime I am in the app, it works just fine without.
Are you running iOS 14? I believe that’s coming from the OS, not Plex.
I believe so. That message doesn’t come up on earlier versions of iOS and it’s not something Plex added.
The OS is preventing the app from connection to the local network. You need to authorize the app in the OS. Click n that Settings button and it should take you to the correct place to allow it which should be Settings > Privacy > Local Network of the OS
That message displayed in red isn’t coming from iOS.
Plex is detecting that it hasn’t been granted the permission, and is displaying that red bar.
I really like the more-granular permissions Apple is implementing, but this is the biggest problem with them. How does an app developer indicate to the user that some features are unavailable because they’ve chosen not to grant permission? How do you make that fact discoverable, without silently breaking, without a bunch of UI work, and without spamming requests and warnings?
There is discussion going on about that red bar being dismissible so folks who intentionally don’t want local access enabled to not be nagged about it.
@BigWheel I know how to give the permission, my issue is I don’t want to give that permission since the plex client does not need it on my iPad. Please don’t put a big red warning sign there urging me to give the app permission it does not need.
Edit: Dismissible would be acceptable but the OS/App already asked for permission and I declined. I feel annoyed and irritated by this.
@anon18523487 I highly doubt it, that’s not a system popup. The extra permission setting was not there in ios 13, but I am talking specifically about the red banner, not the permission itself.
sorry i misread initial post. From the discussions I saw about it making it dismissible is going to happen.
Thanks.
Any news on that? The annoying big red banner is still there using app screen real estate on an already small screen.
Still happening
Looking at the report I made it seems to have been completed recently and it should be in a beta build soon but I don’t have an exact eta.
Thanks for the update, appreciated.
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