Who exactly pushed to release this incomplete and buggy mess out into the public in this state? Is this for real?
Cool, a new design… cool, new logos… everything else is worse in every way.
The new player is awful. Can’t full screen with a double tap, subtitle styling is broken and doesn’t follow any iOS font setting.
Navigation is SLOW SLOW SLOW… my library list doesn’t even load past the 14th item in a category. Not to mention the new menu structure… oh, my lovely sidebar, what did they do to you?
In any part, while navigating a tv show, you could tap on “Season 2” and go straight to the season page. You could tap on the series name, and go straight to the series page. Now? Naaaah, nothing. (this appears to have been introduced with the latest version)
You just had to do a completely redesigned new app from scratch while removing existing functionality, did you?
Way to ruin a beautiful hobby, Plex team. Thank you.
I’ve rolled back the app on my phone and blocked any automatic update on my other devices, but I don’t know how long this will last.
FIX THE APP. USE THE NATIVE IOS/ATV PLAYER. KEEP THE “OLD” APP AS A LEGACY VERSION
Really not a fan of pushing an unfinished app to replace a perfectly functional app. The new app is still missing a lot of functionality the old app had. Guess it’s time to look at alternative media server software that actually respects the user.
I will be holding off on updating until I am certain that at a minimum PiP and auto-skip intro are enabled on iOS. Neither were present in the last preview pushed to TestFlight. Can anyone tell me if they’ve been added to the release version?
As someone with limited mobility in my hands this version sucks hard with many things I took for granted being either much harder or flat out impossible but I at least need to be able to use PiP and auto-skip.
Thanks gibit. I just looked at the “Coming soon” list of features and most of what I hate about the new app is on it. PiP, Skip Intro, vertical episode lists, ability to jump to a library from the home screen etc. Hopefully they actually come through with these things.
Please re-release the old app as “Legacy” on the App Store.
I don’t care about social features, I just want something that works T_T
I’m gonna try setting up Jellyfin this week in the meantime.
I’m as surprised as everyone that it’s being released already. In my opinion, they needed another 3-6 months to get closer to feature parity and fix issues like the terrible comparative performance is areas like icon loading/scrolling.
There’s going to be a lot of noise when this is rolled out and all users are switched over.
@Ted_C seems I mispoke, if you have the Lock to Landscape checked on, you “might” get PiP. I noticed it was inconsistent, but so was the old app. When that checkbox is off, it won’t PiP.
I also did notice that in PiP, the subtitles don’t show anymore.
Wtf is wrong with this guys? The new app looks horrible, the downloads in the iPad are just not usable… who the hell decided to cut features like downloading whole seasons an „organising“ them into single episodes?? Is there any good alternative to plex where everything is in a way desingned for real users?
The lack of features in the download function is just mind blowing…but in a world of half baked development in pretty much every corner of the industry now, I should have expected a terrible release from plex. Thanks for pushing me even further from your product.
The scrolling is so laggy, the subtitles are not transparent anymore (black bars behind them) and the player crashes when I try to do PiP. (Android, Oneplus Nord 4)
Huge step backward. This is NOT ready for prime time, and the feedback in this forum has indicated that time and time again. It feels like this release date was set in stone, whether or not the app was ready or not.
And that’s the bottom line: it is not ready. The comparisons with the Sonos fiasco are, imho, very apt.
The visual design, I can understand that that is a pretty subjective thing. There will always be people not liking it. But the current app is a step down in performance and functionality, and (I don’t have a lot of hope for this) the right thing would be to roll this back and add several more cycles of development.
I’ll add my voice to the list: Lifetime Plex Pass, but I’ll look for alternatives if Plex continues to go down this road. I’ve been running a Jellyfin instance in parallel for a few weeks now because I feared this exact thing might happen.
Live / DVR does not give an option to start at the beginning of the recording vs live. It also does not allow scrubbing of a recording in progress. If you attempt this the new app gets stuck at the start of the recording.
It appears that the app cannot handle the live buffer recording properly. This renders the DVR unusable within iOS during a live recording.
Completed recordings work (mostly) OK, but the response time is sluggish.
Also, Live Tv guide for Local server channels is not populated with schedule data. Channel name only appears.
Design wise I like it but basic features are missing, it’s slow and crashes occasionally. I can’t understand why it’s being rolled out now to replace the existing app. Why not have both in the app store until there’s feature parity and the bugs are mostly fixed?
It seems that we may need a post on how to prevent this from being installed. I would hate to see how it behaves on my tvs when it comes out in a month.
