Original post (for iOS): As per title, Plex needs to fix the downloads feature on iOS, as I can never get the app to download anything for reasons outlined below and also because there are major usability problems with the feature. The Plex team should simulate a slow/unstable Internet connection …

I believe I’m having and have been having a similar issue. I have an iPhone XS Max and running the latest version of Plex 8.7.1. I download songs and then Plex keeps trying to download the same albums over and over and over again which I believe is part of the reason it keeps crashing within a minut…

To add evidence of this software failure, I tried to download two seasons of shows to my wife’s iPad before her trip. On first try it successfully downloaded 3 random episodes of 13 total. I then spent all day changing client settings and DNS configurations, experimenting and retrying, with zero imp…

I recently had the same experience as everyone here. Downloading any items would go at a max of 70mbps, but an average of 35mbps. I let Plex run on my iPad with the screen on for 6 hours, and it downloaded 2 episodes of tv, or around 5GB. I sadly resorted to using Infuse. It downloaded at 550-600mb…

Just added some more feedback in the OP regarding the Android app after I found similar issues on that platform as well. I’m starting to doubt that the dev team ever used the downloads feature – it’s so terribly broken on several different platforms.

Same issues here. iPad, Android, original quality, transcoded, doesn’t matter. This feature just plain sucks compared to the old sync. I haven’t had a need to download/sync items for a while and just tried it after maybe six months or more and this is regrettably one of the worst client/server sy…

Just ran into another bug where downloaded content will not show any subtitles, despite them being embedded in the file. Just streaming them will make the subtitles appear.

@obumbratum_1 I’m pretty sure the app does support background downloads, just incredibly poorly. iOS stops apps from doing things in the background within several seconds if I remember correctly, so if Plex didn’t implement background downloads at all then the downloads should fail if I switch to an…

This is not “background” downloading. That is the basic function of iOS app switching. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/url_loading_system/downloading_files_in_the_background

Anyhow, if you would enjoy an improvement of this function, you should upvote the feature request. The more votes we get, the sooner it gets fixed

Plex needs to improve the downloads feature

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obumbratum_1 September 23, 2022, 6:02pm 9

Hi all…just chiming in to let you know that background downloading isn’t implemented on Apple devices. If this interests you, please vote for the feature request: iOS allows background downloads, why doesn’t Plex enable it

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Plex needs to improve the downloads feature

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