Requested Features and/or Modifications

I’d like to start a thread to keep feature requests clean and consolidated for this amazing app.


While it isn’t perfect, it’s pretty dang close and maybe some of the community can chime in to help make it perfect.

  1. I’ve seen this on some other apps but not on Plex; When you say Xbox Select, the shaded/transparent Tile overlay makes it difficult to see what is underneath it. It would be great if the voice cue was just highlighted on the bottom of the tile without commandeering the whole tile.

  2. I’d love to have the Recently Viewed section of “movies” to be moved closer to the first option. For us who use voice as primary input, it’s somewhat tedious to have to keep saying “next page” to get to the movies we’ve not yet finished.

For me the most urgent additional feature would be an “Unwatched” list. Everything else is great!!



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The ability to delete content would be great as well.

Where the subtitle settings? Video settings? Audio settings? Network settings? My browser Somsung TV has more options. Where change the profile to Plex home theater skin?

Filters, filters, filters. It's one of my must have tools. Also it would be great to use the apps on iOS, Android, etc to control the XO app.

Why not add some fun achievements too!?

The ability to better control watched/unwatched (preferably at a show/season level like on the PHT and the Samsung TV app, rather than just episode by episode), as well as access to a few settings would be nice (because at present - there are none, lol)

Looks nice though... Very 'netflix' :-P

Where the subtitle settings? Video settings? Audio settings? Network settings? My browser Somsung TV has more options. Where change the profile to Plex home theater skin?

There are no global settings, you need to configure quality, and subtitles on each video when u play them.

Ability to skip back/forward using the LB/RB buttons.

On every other client I have used you can skip video in chunks of 30-45 seconds ... that seems to be missing from this otherwise impressive app.

Unless I just missed it and the skip is mapped to some other buttons?

pham256. Exactly. I miss the skin plex home theater and all functions.

<span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Plex home Theater for pc is excellent, Plex for browser somsung tv is good, now xbox one is medium, and chromecast is regular. The subtitle is white, i wanna yellow and big...ui.</span>

The concurrent Tyson, got banned? The screensshots from the web is fake? Can he launched with another name the app for xbox one and use plex media server features?

I wanna pay 10 dollar for Tyson to see his app working. I lost.

1) I'd like the Recently Added view back and less sorting by individual episodes and more filters.

2) I use XBMC a lot and didnt realize how much I relied on the system clock to see what time it is. So I'd like to suggest a clock in the main window somewhere.

3) Change of the voice prompt/words .. Im already sick of saying "Select #", "More #", "Go Back", "Next Page" and "Previous Page".

4) I'd really like a basic file/folder view where I can sort by date added and see folders/shows and open the show to see a list of avaialble episodes with the date added listed per show and a marking show watched/unwatched. I like the slick interface and all of the photos/posters but it can be a lot to sift through especially with voice commands, a basic text/folder list would be a relief IMHO.

5) I had a show with a single 5.1 audio track that was playing only the background music.. I thought it was for effect in the show but it became obvious that there was no dialog audio being played. I switched over to XBMC and it played perfectly with all of the dialog.

I'm not sure if it's possible, but I'd like to request support for 3D content.

A few different views would be awesome, unless you’re tied to that aesthetic due to some obligation towards MS. Something like several rows of smaller icons or posters or what have you.


Also a way to reorganize the order of categories displayed, or the ability to hide a particular category. Filters. I’d like to hide that year 2000s category.


I also IIRC the triggers or bumpers - I forget which - don’t do anything during video playback. Maybe make them skip forward/back in 1/5/10 min increments or something? Some sort of use for those buttons would be nice.

3) Change of the voice prompt/words .. Im already sick of saying "Select #", "More #", "Go Back", "Next Page" and "Previous Page".


I don't think Plex has much say over this. That's how the voice prompts work in all other 3rd party apps, and it's probably due to the fact that it's far easier to go this route than for the Xbox One to have to index every movie, tv show, etc. that exists on every 3rd party app you download.

2) I'd love to have the Recently Viewed section of "movies" to be moved closer to the first option. For us who use voice as primary input, it's somewhat tedious to have to keep saying "next page" to get to the movies we've not yet finished.

This will definitely be returning to the home screen, it just didn't make it into this version due to a last-minute bug  :(

For me the most urgent additional feature would be an "Unwatched" list. Everything else is great!!

You can sort of get this behavior using the "Top Unwatched" for movies and various TV views ("Start Watching" and "Rediscover" both take watched status into account).  However, we also intend to support filtering, including by unwatched, in list views as soon as we can.

Where the subtitle settings? Video settings? Audio settings? Network settings? My browser Somsung TV has more options. Where change the profile to Plex home theater skin?

You can change subtitles, audio streams, and video quality in the "..." menu in the video player.  It will remember your settings between videos.  Were there any others that you miss specifically?

Ability to skip back/forward using the LB/RB buttons.

On every other client I have used you can skip video in chunks of 30-45 seconds ... that seems to be missing from this otherwise impressive app.

Unless I just missed it and the skip is mapped to some other buttons?

I miss this one too!  We're working on it  :)

As mentioned in https://forums.plex.tv/topic/123567-multiple-users-on-one-xbox/page-2

Multiple xbox users connected to one plex account.

As mentioned in https://forums.plex.tv/topic/123567-multiple-users-on-one-xbox/page-2

Multiple xbox users connected to one plex account.

This is my big one. Everything else I can deal with...

I’m surprised with people requesting more kinect features when basic functionality is missing. Seriously, wtf. Less with the kinect integration and more with enabling basic features.


Continuous playback, playlists, shuffled playback first please.

I'm surprised with people requesting more kinect features when basic functionality is missing. Seriously, wtf. Less with the kinect integration and more with enabling basic features.

Continuous playback, playlists, shuffled playback first please.


People are allowed to have different priorities. All the suggestions are welcome.