# Server update without changing library settings?
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/server-update-without-changing-library-settings/924170
**Category:** Plex Media Server
**Created:** [June 26, 2025, 8:31pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/server-update-without-changing-library-settings/924170 "2025-06-26T20:31:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@shmengie](https://forums.plex.tv/u/shmengie)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2025, 8:31pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/server-update-without-changing-library-settings/924170/1 "2025-06-26T20:31:43Z")
So, this has bugged me for a while. Whenever I do a server update, all of my library settings (19, in all) get changed to “Recommended,” and I have to go in to each one and change them back to “Library\>Album (or Library\>Title for movies).”
Any way to not touch this when updating?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@shmengie](https://forums.plex.tv/u/shmengie)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2025, 9:39pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/server-update-without-changing-library-settings/924170/3 "2025-06-26T21:39:14Z")
Well, I thought Feature Suggestion was better than Complaints 😉 (Where do you suggest I post this?)
I’m on Sever 4.146.0. I almost exclusively play my libraries on my Apple TV 4K (latest OS). And that’s where I have to change my library settings after every update.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@shmengie](https://forums.plex.tv/u/shmengie)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2025, 3:59pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/server-update-without-changing-library-settings/924170/4 "2025-06-29T15:59:51Z")
Okay, I guess it’s just me…?
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### Author:  [@ChuckPa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ChuckPa)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2025, 4:15pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/server-update-without-changing-library-settings/924170/5 "2025-06-29T16:15:52Z")
@shmengie
Are you changing the PMS setttings in Plex/web – Setttings - Server - \*\*\* ?
-OR-
Are you changing the AppleTV settings with each update (much more common) ?
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### Author:  [@shmengie](https://forums.plex.tv/u/shmengie)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2025, 5:24pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/server-update-without-changing-library-settings/924170/6 "2025-06-29T17:24:11Z")
Hey Chuck:
Yeah, everything looks good in PMS. I have to change everything in the ATV app. Sounds like you get what I’m talking about: Each update hard resets the settings of each library back to Recommended. End of the world? Nah. Annoying? You betcha!
Thanks
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### Author:  [@ChuckPa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ChuckPa)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2025, 6:33pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/server-update-without-changing-library-settings/924170/7 "2025-06-29T18:33:10Z")
@shmengie
Yeppers… AppleTV is annoying as … 🙈
It seems that when the internal settings variable change, it simply starts fresh rather than ‘migrating’ to the new structure like PMS does with database upgrades.
I don’t know if that’s an Apple restriction or not. I’m an OS guy so don’t know internals of the apps.
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### Author:  [@shmengie](https://forums.plex.tv/u/shmengie)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2025, 3:31pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/server-update-without-changing-library-settings/924170/8 "2025-07-01T15:31:38Z")
Hey Chuck…I appreciate your jumping in. I’m not sure it’s an OS thing, per se. It _feels_ more like a Plex app thing. Like, the devs have hard-coded a preferences flag to 0, or something like that.
Either way, thanks for the input. Somehow, I will survive this minor inconvenience! 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2025, 3:31pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/server-update-without-changing-library-settings/924170/9 "2025-09-29T15:31:54Z")
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