Ever since the all new Plex for Android was released, iOS users have been wondering when they’d be able to enjoy some of the new features on their devices, and we’re incredibly happy to say that day has finally come. Let’s jump in and explore the new features available in this release, which should be available on your devices within a few hours!
- NEW: Enhanced filtering: The new rich library filters you’ve gotten to know and love in Plex/Web and the new Plex for Android is now available inside the iOS app.
- NEW: Mobile Media Server: Play your synced content and view content from your photo albums on any other Plex client! I think this is such an awesome feature. You can go over to a friend’s house, and your iPhone or iPad will show up as a Plex server, and (for example) you could browse and play synced content on your Roku. Or even play it from Plex for Android, or another iOS device. Crazy!
- NEW: Push notifications: Plex will now alert you when someone adds you as a friend or sends you a recommendation.
- NEW: Universal transcoder (experimental): We’ve unified the media server’s transcoders, and now iOS can use the latest and greatest. Among other things, this adds support for more subtitle formats, including (finally!) VOBSUB and PGS.
- NEW: New and improved photo viewer.
- NEW: Dark theme.
- NEW: All sliders support variable scrubbing speed (just like the movie player) .
- NEW: Better integration of search in sections and channels.
- NEW: Audio boost & subtitle size settings are used for sync.
- NEW: Failed sync transcodes can be retried from Sync Settings.
- NEW: Source icons for online search results.
- NEW: Swipe up from the bottom to access connectivity settings.
- FIX: Attempt to direct-play MPEG-4 video.
- FIX: Better response validation (fixes certain sync errors).
- FIX: The app can now sync from servers that aren’t published to myPlex.
- FIX: Sort ordering for sync is more reliable.
- FIX: Various issues with manually added servers.
- FIX: Plex/HT and Plex/Roku player names are detected correctly.
- FIX: myPlex accounts couldn’t be created on the device.
- FIX: Offline sections couldn’t be accessed in some rare cases.
- FIX: A few other inconsistencies & crashes.