Tried the new android app. Feels like hot garbage, a lot of functionality seems to be removed in this version.
Settings are more sparse
cant easily set my videos to a list view, only can do a grid view
the new way to navigate does not feel intuitive.
why fix what wasn’t broken?
Thank you jclifton for the response. I did see that earlier post. I have a iPhone the .apk does not work for me. I need the iOS version.
Thank you. I hate the splitt of the media types. I have several libraries in my photo and music. And with new app I can not see them all. The movie library failed on casting. I rolled back too. Thank you for your “how todo”
So the point is exactly as I said, it never works for managed users and there is no way to unpin it from those users in the mobile app..
Jellyfin up and running with little effort.
Reminds me of early days of plex.
Is it the same, no.
Does it do what I need, yes.
Will impact the plex company by me leaving…no
I’ll likely run all three for a bit and see which one to use to replace plex with.
For now JellyFin is fully free and includes hardware transcoding without paying, but if emby shows to have better support I always like to pay for progress so long as the heart of the project is not lost.
Thank you darcilicious I’ll give this a shot
The app god auto updated by the APP store on our chromebook. From then on we got the error “HEVC profile could not be determined”. I spent 5 hours on this issue on a Saturday. I really do not have much time otherwise but we use Plex a lot an I have a PLEX Pass.
I found a fix. I sideloaded the old app 10.28. and now it works fine again.
Plex should be ashamed of themselves pushing an app in this state…
Oh and what about supporting HEVC and HDR content on AMD hardware?! That specific feature request has been open for 7 YEARS!
I’m not really grasping what you mean, I don’t have any of those things in my Plex app. I’m willing to help, I’m just not sure what you’re saying? Disabled for Managed Users only disables for Managed Users but just full Disabled disables it for everyone.
First, awesome making this easy for people to manually roll back (though honestly, Plex should be doing this for everyone). My concern is that “moving forward” Plex will make it so the working app (the amazing old one) … no longer works with future updates to their server. Why Plex? Why?
With the latest updates, subtitles are no longer working for me like a lot of others and I’m really hoping you can help and I appreciate the work you’re doing here.
I’m on a Google pixel tablet, developer mode is enabled, the app is uninstalled and I am a Plex pass user. Every time I try to install following your directions to downgrade the app, I receive an error telling me the package is invalid. When I started my journey with Plex, I was a systems engineer that had shifted the software development but now thanks to long covid I have cognitive decline and watching things I’ve seen before is one of the few activities I’m able to enjoy. Without subtitles, I have the same problems everyone else does.
It’s a pixel tablet running Android 15, latest build. I’ve confirmed that subtitles work from a desktop browser
Try one of the other apk versions here. There may be (doesn’t seem like it from a Google search) a slightly different architecture that the Pixel uses.
it was a good suggestion, but none of them will work. they all say they are incompatible except for the arm 64 v8a, which tells me the package is invalid.
Not that it’s really useful information considering but running it through a hash checker the sha256 I’m getting is f7271488dd931a720cf7965a36af25c5cd45c449d1dcea7edb16618e7a6ee010
Not sure what’s going on with it to be honest. I’ve used that same apk (v8a) on multiple devices without issue. Do you have another device you can test it on?
I get the same sha256 hash on the file I downloaded earlier in the week to roll back my two devices. f7271488dd931a720cf7965a36af25c5cd45c449d1dcea7edb16618e7a6ee010
well, unfortunately it seems to be some kind of strange architecture thing right? The downgraded build installed on my Google pixel 7 just fine, but not on this tablet (BP1A.250405.007 vs BP1A.250405.007.B1 on my pixel 7).
if there’s anything else I can offer to help, please let me know but it feels like I’m just stuck until they fix it right or give users an AB choice?
You gotdanged bloody legend!!! I started hyperventilating… all of a sudden couldn’t speak, jumping up and down like a neanderthal. No one knew what was wrong, and i couldn’t articulate with words what had happened… the contentment washes over me and you deserve a free happy meal my brother xo 
Ya, like @sabcatlibra , I tried the Google Play (arm64v8a) APK on my Google Pixel 8a and it gave me the same “invalid package” error.
So instead I uninstalled Plex entirely (the new version), then tried installing the APK linked above and it worked.
Glad it worked for you! Here’s to hoping they figure things out with the new app soon!
Fantastic!
I hope that in the future they will at least do some testing before updating the app. It’s a real shame that a company of this size would release such a bad app with such impunity.
