Following months of testing, Plex has started to roll out its redesigned mobile app to Android and iOS devices, and it will arrive to everyone within the next week. The new app comes with an updated navigation system that should make it easier to access different parts of the app and find content to watch, along with a dedicated tab for centralized media libraries.
It also has a button in the top-right corner of the screen for your Watchlist and more artwork across detail pages for shows and movies, as well as cast and crew profiles. In a post on the Plex forum, the company outlines a ton of improvements it has made to the app since the preview, including faster load times and scrolling, the addition of a sleep timer, and picture-in-picture support.
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I’ve also rolled out my big upgrade: Jellyfin
Why does plex need all of this shit? I literally only wanted to use it to stream my local stuff. Now that’s just a tiny part of the app.
I say now, but I don’t think I’ve used it at all in the past couple of years.
Enshittening
And Jellyfin is better and free. I don’t trust Plex with my content and I don’t want their added streaming bloatware.
I hate this update
- no manual PiP which existed in the previous version. The auto PiP works sometimes
- multiple freezes, seemingly random
- phone gets way hotter and drains battery faster
- looks like yet another generic streaming app “experience”
If only Jellyfin onboarding was as easy for friends and family…
It’s simple, Plex is owned by capitalists, their goal is not to provide a service or a product, their goal is to make money. Jellyfin is currently the best as far as I know for doing the only thing anyone ever wanted Plex to do.
Wow, this can only be a disaster. People on the Plex experience preview forum are pissed. The android build hasn’t been updated in a month, I didn’t think it would be rolled out for another 3-6 months.
So many features are missing, the only way to remove Plex rentals/free is by going into your account settings, performance is shit even just scrolling your media.
I haven’t looked at the beta client in a while and was wondering how they could’ve gotten it ready this fast. Guess I’ll pin my app version real quick.
Damn it, I don’t want to switch to Jellyfin
This update is so good that I switched my server to jellyfin. I didn’t like it last time I used it, but it seems that they made a lot of improvements and now the app is kinda fire
Wonder how many things they shit up
I was surprised to find that an old Plex feature, controlling any one player from any other instance, such as playing on a laptop and controlling with a cell phone, no longer worked. My wife and I used that a lot when traveling, as plugging a laptop into a hotel TV with an HDMI cable is generally far more bullet proof than any streaming stick
Course sometimes we’d stay in an Airbnb, and they’d have a Roku or Apple TV, where we’d just sign into a Plex app and use it there. But that’s beyond the point
I already switched to jellyfin after the last monthly cost for stream online.
