Yeah sorry, Plex employees are faking way too many posts for me to believe this.
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I’m not a Plex employee; sorry to read you don’t believe that I want this.
Well, if there’s any truth to that, I’ve got great news for you. There’s already dozens of apps that do exactly what you want. And since you’re so fond of new Plex, I know for a fact that you love having to use multiple different apps. So there you go, you don’t need Live TV in Plex anymore.
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Still not working in v18
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I don’t use LiveTV very much, but checked on my iPhone w/ .18 and my handful of channels (coming from a Channels DVR “tuner”) are working properly for the most part.
Still can’t get a guide for any future days though.
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Hi @McWanke this issue is getting called out time and time again, hoping that it is indeed on a list of fixes. I don’t think the EPG is working beyond the current day for anyone, and hasn’t since the new experience was released. This post has links to just a small number of the reports, reports that includes screen shots and logs.
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Yea, same here, am just uninstalling it in my machine, have moved to Emby. Sure ive a few bugs to work out, but y’know, thats small beans given I can actually watch the content i have spent literal days collating and its so fast, using Emby vs plex feels like ive upgraded my internet from dial-up to 10gb broadband!
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Sadly I think I need to follow this path, I just can’t understand how this is acceptable, key Plex feature is totally unusable, yet no one seems to care at all.
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It is not, yet it is on the list of fixes. I hope you can accept it will be fixed. All this negativety does no one any favours
At present I use the server to schedule, not perfect but a work around for now.
Cheers
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Come on @SE56, that isn’t fair. I’m not going down a negative path at all, I’ve been active in trying to provide everything that might be needed for a fix, and have been respectful all the way. Recommend you re-read my post and modify your reply to match (or the post from FranKit88 if you are replying to that one).
It has now been well over 125 days (over 4 months) since Plex intentionally broke Live TV with an update that wasn’t ready. Just how long do you suggest that people should “hope you can accept it will be fixed”.
Plex do need to start considering how they track issues and communicate back to a user population who rightfully so far growing more and more frustrated as time goes on. This haphazard production and beta feedback just doesn’t work.
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Ok, I know the fix is coming so Im positive. Does that make you feel better… 
So they broke it intentionally, that’s a big call.
Applying constructive feedback is a good thing, knocking it down on a issue with unknown complexities, which can be circumvented by just using the server. That is entirely another misconception
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That seems like a bit of a stretch. When Plex rolled out the new experience apps my live TV didn’t suddenly stop working on my servers. Admittedly it wasn’t great on the new apps, but I could still schedule recordings from my server (the only place I ever did that anyway).
And today, 2025-08-03, I’m able to watch live TV without issues on any of my devices, including those running the new experience apps.
Steady progress is being made. Yes, it would have been far better if things were not broken to begin with. But the apps are improving at a rapid pace; the latest betas allow viewing guide data days in advance (something which was broken in earlier releases).
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I don’t see how anyone could not consider it a deliberate decision to break Live TV with the New Experience launch. It didn’t work at all, they knew it and still pulled the trigger. That was the point I was trying to make.
My parents use Live TV quite a bit to setup recordings, they only have iPads these days, so it’s a constant question of when the guide data will be fixed so they can setup recordings.
I often travel with just my iPad and iPhone, and yes I can use a browser but it really shouldn’t be required at this point, 4 months down the track.
I’ve also just sat down to watch the football whilst I get some work done, and sure enough immediately got the “Error Occurred The operation couldn’t be completed CoreMediaErrorDomain” error…wonderful. So sadly not fixed properly in the 2025.22 beta update, fingers crossed for the next one.
I think it’s also reasonable to expect at least a little bit of Plex staff interaction on specific threads that are reporting feature blocking bugs, but perhaps I’m in the minority. For example - https://forums.plex.tv/t/live-tv-bug-list-feature-requests-for-new-experience/
PS - As for any expectation of feature and functionality/UX parity (or improvement) with the “Old Experience”…
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That implies deliberate intent. “Hey, let’s set a goal to break this.” It was collateral damage of releasing the app prematurely. Nothing more, nothing less. Words have meaning. When you say things like the quoted above, you need to be able to back it up with more than your feelings. Something like “Hey guys, we’re intentionally breaking live TV & DVR for a bit.”
Absent that, I think you might mean they knowingly degraded live TV & DVR for these releases.
Words have meaning. I just wish folks would choose them more carefully. And be more deliberate with their speech. Antagonism and hostility bring nothing positive to a discussion.
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…sorry to hear this - it is working now for me on v2025.22 (although still cannot see the schedule further out than 1 day). I wonder what’s different between our setups?
@JCHH thanks for the reply, glad you are seeing some progress. Indeed 2025.22 has fixed a few things, I’m hopeful of some additional builds during this beta cycle with more goodness.
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Ok, so perhaps a little more context might help you understand why I chose these words:
Live TV worked perfectly well in the Old Experience (and still does for those lucky to have not updated)
Live TV in the New Experience was broken in the beta/testflight, and widely reported and discussed (well before the release of New Experience).
Plex then released the New Experience, forcing upgrades with no notice, knowing very well that they had totally broken Live TV. This was acknowledged in the initial release notes and also further communications. Also widely discussed by many.
This release rendered the whole feature un-usable on mobile clients, no channels would play back, the app would crash constantly when choosing Live TV…just bringing up the EPG would take 30-40 seconds, only to show an empty guide. And plenty more.
This wasn’t just a depreciation, it was an intentional decision to release without a key feature working at all.
It took months for any progress back to a working feature, and even today those not lucky enough to have the beta client don’t really have a working service (most channels don’t have audio, remote playback is very broken & plenty more)
So I stand by my words, they are carefully chosen to reflect what actually happened.
I’ll step away from this thread now as expecting a working product that I have paid for is obviously too much, further any push back onto Plex via the only support pathway is me been negative, antagonistic and hostile.
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