Test-drive a preview of our newly reimagined, redesigned Plex experience for Apple TV.
This experience is designed to bring everything you love into one seamless interface—from your personal media collection to on-demand content, along with improved ways to discover and connect with friends and fans just like you. As a participant in the Plex Preview Release testing program, you can see what it’s like to discover, experience, and share all of the entertainment that matters to you easier and even smarter than ever before.
Please Note: Plex Media Server version 1.41.2 or later is required fully support the new Plex app. Please visit our Downloads page for the latest server packages.
Key Changes
For Everyone
- Redesigned navigation that makes it easier to dive into the different parts of Plex and discover content with simplicity
- Front and center features, no hidden hamburger menus
- Dedicated Watchlist positioning in the top navigation for faster, easier access
- A streamlined user menu for quick access to personalized details, such as your profile, watch history, friends, and streaming services all in one place
- Expanded use of artwork throughout, including movie and show detail pages, cast and crew profiles, and even your own personal profile page
- Title artwork for movies and shows where available—a long-requested feature that adds polish to each page
For Personal Media Pros
- Centralized media libraries in a dedicated tab
- Option to favorite libraries
- Easier access to power-user features
- More exciting updates to come!
Feature Inclusions/Exclusions
With the initial Preview of our new Plex experience, some features are not included. We’ll be adding many new things during our weekly updates to the Preview app. Please check out the Documentation, Features, & Common Questions forum topic first before posting questions or feedback.
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Apple TV - 2025.2.0 (830) TestFlight
New
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Preview 2 is now available.
Apple TV - 2025.3.0 (844) TestFlight
New
- Hide library tab if user has no server
- Display managed user’s avatar and title in account menu
Fixed
- Fixed slow loading of home if a shared media source is favorited
- Ensure managed users can open the user switcher
- Fixed pin entry not working on some devices
- Fixed watchlist action sometimes not working
- Prevent media activity feed from jumping
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Apple TV - 2025.6.0 (877) TestFlight
New
- Allow Live TV OTA when FAST is disabled.
- Add support for playlists.
- Allow switching users while offline.
Fixed
- Slow refresh on activity feed.
- Missing data after switching users.
- Content clipped in user switcher.
- Device settings to be saved per user when users are switched.
- Ensure app is able to be put in background state.
- Adjust tablet spacing and artwork tile sizes.
- Update watched indicator setting title.
- PMS clear logos with backgrounds would not display transparently.
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Apple TV - 2025.7.0 (888) TestFlight
New
- Added new interfaces including a libraries error screen, notification settings, and reporting screens
- Enhanced onboarding with a library favoriting guide
- Updated playback controls for improved interaction
- Added additional languages
Fixed
- Resolved issues with missing subtitles and live TV display
- Improved review flow with updated privacy, rating, and navigation interactions
Apple TV - 2025.8.2 (918) TestFlight
New
- Add share action to activity cards
- Add privacy screens
- Add minimum PMS version information to outdated server screen
- Activity optimistic updates when muting or blocking user
- Clear stored library and offline user information on sign out
- Add clear filter/sort button
- Add Remove from Continue Watching action
- Add share with friends in detail screens
- Add plex home management for add/update/delete managed users
- Fixed being unable to switch between guide and favorites pivots on FAST
Fixed
- Increase opacity on inline player buttons
- Fix Live TV sources after switching users and not loading when no sources are available
- Don’t use recent library from offline server
- Update Apple Player for various fixes, subtitles, DV, etc.
- Store last used library separately for each user
- Fix long press on Libraries
Known Issues:
- Logout can only be completed by deleting the app and reinstalling
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Apple TV - 2025.10.13 (1025) TestFlight
New
- Added a setting to control which library view should be the default.
- Hide Live TV source for users without any Live TV source.
- Added ability to scan libraries for updates.
- Added edit watched date action.
- Added the date a review was last edited to the activity details screen.
- Support for auto skip intro / credits.
- Review edit date on the review screen.
- Watch history onboarding re-prompt.
- Record action on Live TV OTA screens.
Fixed
- Hide “ratings & reviews from” setting for managed accounts.
- VoiceOver/Talkback accessibility improvements.
- VSS upsell not hidden after accepting or declining in Profile screen.
- Prevent search input from wrapping.
- Fixed Live TV guide erroneously resetting.
- Changed settings values to use title case.
- Fixed FAST channel not autoplaying after switching from OTA.
- Resolve a reported crash when tuning Live TV channels.
- Update Delete Account menu item UI.
- Fixed home loading slowly when favorited server is offline.
- Fixed Automatically Sign In setting not applying to all users in a home.
- Prevent favorite library from being removed from offline server.
- Stop prompting VSS when user doesn’t have media servers.
- Improved scroll performance on library grid screens.
- Prevent removal of existing ratings on reviews.
- Prevent ratings & reviews screen from overlapping secondary navigation.
- Close activity details screen when an activity is deleted from the moderation status screen.
- Show loading spinner when signing in without a pin.
- Unresponsive pre-play when closing find subtitles without selecting one
- Loading some libraries leading to the app crashing
- Icons for subtitles and stream selector actions on detail page context menus missing icons.
- Multichannel down-mixing to stereo.
Known Issues
- Apple TV HD may still experience playback issues with specific codecs or profiles
- Unable to focus on OSD elements when playing FAST on some devices
- Users who are onboarding with no favorites may get stuck during onboarding and the layout on this screen has problems. Quitting the app works around this.
- Auto-skip intro / credits / commercials button text may be difficult to read during animation
- Side menu fade effect may look a bit harsh
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Apple TV - 2025.15.0 (1045) TestFlight
New
- Added animations to menus.
Fixed
- Change “Default Library View” to “Recommended” instead of “Browse”.
- Exclude disabled servers on person detail screen.
- Fixed browsing to unavailable libraries.
- Fixed gap between activity items when a new page is added.
- Fixed active Live TV source changing when selecting “What’s On”.
- Fixed crash if unable to connect to any servers on Live TV.
- Focus currently airing or last focused item when navigating into Live TV guide.
- Increased toast duration.
- Long-press actions trigger quicker.
Known Issues
- Some layout issues on Live TV (FAST / OTA)
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Apple TV - 2025.16.0 (1068) TestFlight
New
- Add play all and shuffle all actions to libraries.
- Include non-acting roles in cast & crew when Discover is disabled.
- Updated the design of friends list screens.
Fixed
- Fixed PMS not loading when special characters in device name.
- Improve Homescreen performance.
- Exclude PMS library based on setting in person detail screen.
- Live TV playback was not fullscreen.
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Apple TV - 2025.17.0 (1079) TestFlight
New
- Link to individual PrivacyScreens within settings.
Fixed
- A person’s roles could overflow the cell on the filmography page.
- AVOD DRM requests intermitently failing.
- Adjust spacing on Cast & Crew page.
- Animation when reording favorite libraries.
- Browse libraries hub not showing favorite libraries in correct order.
- Fixed blurred avatars not showing on profile screens.
- Fixed star rating color and gestures on activity cards.
- Fixed unable to navigate to sidebar on library empty recommended screen.
- Hubs on Home not following favorite library order.
- Improved person detail screen responsiveness when loading server items.
- Restrict Live TV to transcode to h264 for better playback compatibility.
- The last focused primary action on an activity card was being remembered even after focus was moved off of the activity card.
- The rate and review action was duplicated on detail pages.
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Apple TV - 2025.18.0 (1098) TestFlight
NEW:
- A person’s biography is expandable.
- Added TV styles for Discover onboarding.
- Disable animations in Live TV guide for low performance devices
- Keyboard layout changed to lowercase
- Refreshed the design of the movie and show details, including button labels.
- TV styles for Discover Friend Activity Digest screen
FIXES:
- A crash occurring with certain HDR media.
- Accessibility: Row scroller headers were not always announced as headings.
- Activity cards could change height when focused.
- Activity comments incorrectly used the parallax focus style.
- Activity comments would shift when focused.
- Auto-sync subtitles options was not enabling when selected.
- Clear search query when navigating away from the search screen.
- Could not find subtitles from preplay screen on TV.
- Could not select items in grid if there was a small number of items.
- Hide Libraries nav item for anonymous users.
- Hide libraries hub on home screen when app is in offline mode.
- Improve the library onboarding screen layout.
- Include advanced sorting options for libraries.
- It was not clear which streaming service group was expanded.
- Live TV favorites showing as no longer available.
- Live TV home indicator would not hide with other player UI.
- Live TV player UI icon alignment.
- Live TV would incorrectly transcode to HEVC causing no video to be displayed.
- Long critic reviews and summaries were not scrollable.
- Navigating up from the search keyboard top row focus on the search settings.
- Pending, redacted or rejected comments on activities were not muted enough.
- Prevent log out if erroneous error response is received.
- Resolved an issue where playback would unexpectedly restart, either at random or following a network disruption.
- See All Libraries button was visible when there were no supported libraries.
- Slow Homescreen when having multiple Library favorited.
- Stop search history and search suggestions from falling under keyboard on scroll.
- The app would not have respected some PMS preferences.
- The person detail page displayed the title twice.
- When starting a new episode of a series, playback could start at the end of the episode.
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Apple TV - 2025.19.0 (1132) TestFlight
NEW:
- Add review text truncation to Rate & Review screen.
- Add user consent onboarding screen to onboarding flow.
- Show feedback when PMS media items are unavailable or don’t exist.
FIXES:
- Consent screen not showing up for regions that need consent.
- Could not move focus from filters to grid if there were too few items.
- Fixed inline video player erroneously responding to key presses.
- Fixed library browse screen not loading when jump bar fails.
- Fixed missing focus in Live TV player
- Go to season and go to show was missing from activity detail pages.
- Improved sign-in screen layout.
- Seekbar was too small on TV platforms.
- Signing in as a Home Admin was redirecting to Home instead of the Switch User screen
- Skip Intro markers could be unreadable.
- The date was missing from some activity cards.
- The player UI could have extra inset, breaking some components.
- The sizing of spacing of the contents of activity cards was incorrect.
- Stop showing source selection on navigating to search result.
Apple TV - 2025.20.0 (1159) TestFlight
NEW:
- Clock shown in top right corner of navigation bar and player
- Library jump bar in browse.
- Native search UI.
- Play content with play button on remote.
- Show loading state when Skip Sign Up, and an error if it fails.
FIXES:
- A recent search could overflow the available space.
- Anamorphic video would look squished and not the proper aspect ratio.
- Browse Libraries hub on home could be in wrong position on screen when focused.
- Browse Libraries hub should not be first visible hub.
- Discover category pages had overlapping content.
- Discover services pages had overlapping content.
- Fading in and out focus style when navigating between buttons.
- Fixed missing guide airings for PMS Live TV on initial load in some situations.
- Focus could be lost when opening sub-menus.
- Focus lost after changing filter when browsing library.
- Focused library was reset after reordering libraries.
- Improve scrolling performance on list and grid screens.
- Long review expand button opening modal instead of side sheet.
- More Ways to Watch won’t load from How to Watch side sheet.
- Player: playback could seek back to initial position when changing playback speed.
- Player: prevent crash using external subtitles.
- Player: prevent marker from stealing focus when OSD is visible.
- Plex home settings had inconsistent styles with the rest of settings.
- Prevent library that is not favorited from being reordered.
- Search screen was making unnecessary requests, slowing down the initial load
- Sign-in screen policy menus couldn’t be scrolled.
- Social Proof button on detail screens retains proper size.
- Some PGS subtitles would not be positioned correctly on-screen.
- The activity feed would reset to the beginning after scrolling down a bit.
- The title on a user’s Rating & Reviews screen was duplicated.
- Top of ‘See All Libraries’ button was cutoff.
- Unable to move the focus to the last row on a grid in some scenarios.
- Update All Libraries screen styling and focus behavior.
- Update selected stream in more actions menu after changing.
- When no selected search servers, an informative message should display.
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Apple TV - 2025.21.0 (1186) TestFlight
NEW:
- Add Discover source to the More Ways to Watch menu.
- Downloadable TV logs.
- Improved Menu and Sidesheet.
- Make a difference in animation usage for mid-tier devices.
- Migrate user token from legacy app.
- Recent searches on search screen.
- Services screen has been re-worked to make scrolling and focus more intuitive.
- Sign in with Apple.
FIXES:
- 12 hour clock showing 00:00 for noon in some locales.
- Action buttons with inverse actions were not retaining focus on TV preplay screens.
- Actions in side sheets were incorrectly spaced.
- Airing would take initial focus when returning to Live TV guide.
- An error text could be displayed amongst search results.
- Attempting to refocus an activity in a Ratings & Reviews hub would not focus the desired activity.
- Clicking in More Ways to Watch in a VOD title closes the menu.
- Fixed back button behaviour on Live TV guide.
- Focus reset after changing filter with no results.
- Home screen empty when no online sources or favorite libraries.
- If an error occurred on the Sign In screen, it would show on top of content.
- Menu not closed when logging out.
- Only Home Admins were redirected to switch-user screen after sign-in via browser authentication.
- Opening reaction picker would not focus on any of the options.
- Play button didn’t play items from On Demand.
- Reaction picker remains open after making a selection.
- Removing a comment would leave a menu opened.
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Apple TV - 2025.23.0 (1215) TestFlight
NEW:
- Add Download Logs button to error screen.
- Add Server Statuses to the All Libraries screen.
FIXES:
- App could crash on launch in some timezones.
- Favorite libraries could be reset after signing out and back in.
- On an OTA guide, you could not scroll to the next UTC day.
- Playback of Live TV failed with generic error when no tuner was available.
- Player: Audio stream selection was shown for Live TV items without a separate audio stream
- Player: Loss of focus after changing Auto-Sync Subtitles setting.
- Player: Loss of focus when navigating settings.
- Player: keep subtitle button on the left when watching Live TV content.
- Player: prevent control bar showing when adjusting subtitle offset.
- Selecting a Live TV tile from the homescreen wouldn’t always start playback in fullscreen.
- Settings was not being dismissed when resetting cache.
- Sometimes the metadata preview would not update when switching to another Library under the Libraries section.
- The inline preview was shown when the focused item had no metadata.
- The inline preview would not always update when switching libraries.
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Apple TV - 2025.26.0 (1279) TestFlight
FIXES:
- Action buttons on detail screen could show intermittent state.
- Background images wouldn’t load on networks with DNS rebinding protection.
- Favorite libraries were not able to be reordered using a swipe gesture.
- Focus lost when changing language in settings.
- Improve Live TV grid loading performance.
- Live TV playback session was not being cleared when navigating to a different screen.
- Low resolution portrait images for PMS content.
- Menu button press after closing modal could exit app.
- Performance regression when navigating between different screens.
- Player: Intermittent crash when starting playback.
- Player: Purchased and Rental media could fail to load.
- Player: Subtitles would not clear properly for some media.
- Player: seeking could fail after watching Live TV.
- Subsequent deeplinks to a Live TV channel would not trigger playback.
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