Hey Plex Team,

Quick question — was any of this tested in the wild, or did we skip straight from “it compiles” to “ship it”?

Anyway, figured I’d start logging my little adventure here, because what’s better than turning frustration into feedback?

1. Forced Server Upgrade: So the app now demands a newer server version to function — but maybe, just maybe, instead of full lockout, disable the new features and let the rest of us peasants carry on? Just a wild thought.

2. Picture-in-Picture Vanished: The PiP icon is MIA. To get it working now, you basically have to yeet the video off-screen, sacrifice a goat, and hope Mercury isn’t in retrograde. If it works once, congrats — it probably won’t again unless you force close the app and recite the secret chant.

3. Multiple Servers, Maximum Pain: Every time I open the app, I’m greeted by nothing. I have to tap “view all libraries,” then heart the right server (because the pin icon went on vacation?), and then I get my content back. But don’t worry — it forgets all that next time. Consistency!

4. Splash Screen Groundhog Day: Ah yes, the new feature tour — lovingly presented every few app launches whether I want it or not. I’ve “discovered” the same new features at least four times now. We’re bonding at this point.

5. Consider TestFlight? Why not offer a TestFlight version for the brave souls who want to live on the edge, while letting everyone else use a version that doesn’t feel like beta-testing with a blindfold?

Feel free to tack on anything I’ve missed — I’m sure I’ll find more gems by lunchtime.

So Today I added the very Last 22TB Red Pro HHD, to my Setup. Filling ALL 16 Bays with 22TB's.

Very Happy with my Qnap NAS/Plex Setup. (a few years in the making).

Both Units just sit on a Shelf in my home Office.

Specs:

Home Network - Upgraded from 1G to 10G (Did that first before buying New NAS)

NAS = Qnap - TVS-h874-i9 32g Ram - 2TB (Mirrored) for Ops/Apps - 2TB SSD for Cache -

Expansion Unit = Qnap - TL-D800C

We need this to make the experience more practical, for people who only want to watch shows already over to watch entirely without waiting. The labels, and ability to filter them in the library would be great. The info already exists on IMDB and TVDB, and Sonarr uses it. Upvote the request so they start developing it, it seems "simple" enough and immensely useful. Thank you, Plex community and developers

Lots of features I didn’t know existed like the usage dashboard and who watches what, wish I would of done this sooner! Being able to watch on the go is so nice! Now I feel like I need to upgrade my Server from a old laptop and a external hd lol

Has anyone else been dealing with this? It just started today. I've restarted my phone, and uninstalled/reinstalled the app, and nothing. It starts to load up, and then crashes.

When I click the cast icon in the 2025.11.1 update it just says no devices. I roll back to the Feb release and they are back. Any idea why 2025.11.1 is not working? Clicking "need help" just sends you to a website that assumes your not on the same Wi-Fi.

I've seen other posts similar to this subject, but not exactly. And I've certainly not found a solution. I've started ripping all of my CDs to add to Plex for the last few months. I've been using dBpoweramp to edit all the ID3 tags and it's coming along quite nicely. There's one issue though: Soundtracks. I know how Plex wants me to name everything (Various Artists in the Album Name section). All of my various artists discs are soundtracks, yet a few of them show up as "Albums". Still various artists, but they are not showing up as "Soundtracks". I was dealing with this minor annoyance, but today I added "Grease" and "Grease 2". While "Grease 2" shows up as a soundtrack, "Grease" is showing up as an "Album". I'm trying not to let it bother me, but it really is. Any suggestions?

I use an account to access my Plex Media Server (in a Synology NAS) and I access it through different devices: 2 Apple TVs, 2 MACs and an iPhone. The problem is that, if I want to reorder the libraries, I haver to do it in every single device. Isn't there an option to assign a library order to a user account no matter what device this user access the server from?

I am a subscriber to the Plex app, but this issue has really frustrated me. I can’t watch 4K movies properly as they start stuttering after a minute. I’m looking for a solution to this problem

Since this new update there is no more option to scan a library for newly added files? Why Plex why did you remove that from the app :/ If anyone has a solution I’m happy to know (not a big fan of auto scan)

anyone else having issues with the new plex app not loading subtitles when casted to a TV?

in the old app I just start the video and then select subtitles and the video would reload to show subtitles. now when I select subtitles, the video doesn't reload or show subtitles.

can't revert back to old version of plex, so frustrating!

I just finished migrating my Plex server to some new hardware and from a VM on ESXI to an LXC container on Proxmox. I followed the official Plex migration guide but now my libraries don't load on the IOS app.

It's just the tab 'Libraries' that doesn't load. I'm presented with an endless spinner (that doesn't even spin). I can select another library on the top and it's the same for all of them. If I click 'See all libraries' I can favourite my libraries but then they appear double in the favourite list. It looks like the libraries from the old server are still marked as favourite but I cannot unfavourite them. If I select the first occurence of a duplicate it shows without the library name on top, the second does show the library name on top. But both don't load.

Things I've tried:

- Sign out / in

- Reinstall app

- Unfavourite the old libraries in the web app (everything works fine there btw)

I have another user with exact same problem for my server.

Any ideas?

Hi All,

So, I've recently re-setup my plex music server (no videos on this server), this is running from a synology DS723+.

I was wondering however, what tips / tricks are there to improve the plex music experience? if any?

Also, would the server benefit from being on more powerful hardware? I have an old Dell desktop workstation, and I also use sonic analysis which I know is CPU bound, so not sure if that will help with anything?

What tips / tricks do you know?

TIA!

Hello.

I have an issue with playback on my tv which seems to have gotten worse.

I have a c3 tv (OLED65C34LA) connected via wifi. The access point is in the same room, a Unifi in wall hd. Which is hard wired back to my firewall (Unifi dream machine).

When I try play content from plex on the tv I normally get a spinning orange circle before it’s starts to play. Sometimes this can take longer and sometimes I get a playback error. Couple of retry’s and it will play. When watching, it plays for 10 seconds or so then pauses while the spinning orange circle appears and spins for a few seconds and resumes playing. This repeats during the entire content.

At first I thought it was my server or wireless. But I can sit in the same room as the tv and watch the same content on my phone or iPad and at the same time instantly with no issues. So I’ve concluded there’s something up with the tv.

The tv is up to date. The Unifi app tells me the tv has excellent signal/experience and is connected to at 5ghz.

Any thoughts or things I could test?

Now that I'm getting my head around Plex, I'm getting my library and playlists sorted out. As a designer, I just couldn't abide the automatically-generated thumbnails.

Order has been restored to the galaxy!

I wanted to see if anyone could give advice on the feasibility of an equipment change. I currently run a Synology DS216+ II that I just upgraded to have two 12TB Seagate Ironwolf Pros in RAID 1 config. Up till now, it’s basically just been a Time Machine server that also holds an all of my photography files from years ago.

Separately, I also have an Intel NUC from like 2016 that runs Windows 10 that has an attached 4TB WD Red. Logging into it remotely, I use this setup specifically as a Plex server and a Channels DVR server. In light of MS dropping support for Win10, and because my NUC apparently won’t be able to run Win11, I figured it was probably time to upgrade. Plus, I’d like to join the two devices into one single device that does it all — Time Machine backup for my iMac, Plex Server, Channels DVR server, and just some shared folders. I’m not sure it’s really worth it, though, now.

I had originally planned on upgrading my Synology to a newer DS224+. But looking at the specs, it just doesn’t seem like it’s worth the money. The processor isn’t all that much faster and the rest of it is essentially the same as what I have. While I don’t need a ton of transcode power (most of my stuff is already encoded to work as efficiently as possible for my AppleTV), I’d like it to have some breathing room. That being said, I like their OS — it’s easy and I know it.

So here’s my question, and I apologize for the long setup… since Synology doesn’t seem to want to have an ACTUAL leap in performance with their new devices, I think I might have to keep my current NAS and just upgrade my NUC. But I would like to use the 12TB raid array to store my movies and stuff too. Is it a stupid idea to use the NAS as the storage device instead of a USB-attached HDD? I should also say that the USB-attached WD Red HDD is also very old and has a lot of cycles on it. It’s also way outside the warranty period.

Am I just inventing ways to spend money? Probably — but I’d still like an upgrade, haha.

Thanks in advance.

My setup: MiniPC as a server, only a few days ago I switched to internet Verizon Fios 2Gbps from Xfinity. Using own router (bridged thanks to the Verizon guy) and port forward is correct. I have Plex Pass.

Here’s an odd one. One of my users who has a Nvidia Shield is stuck on indirect play, but others are not. Before switching to Verizon this user was able to Direct Play everything, even with the the fluctuation of the 350 upload speed of Xfinity. I asked the user to try the tv app and as shown in the second picture, the tv app is secure and allowing for more Mbps. I asked the person to reboot the Shield and they still get indirect.

Has anyone encountered this? I’m a bit shocked the Shield is having this issue. It’s funny too cause this one user is the one I want to try out my upload speeds but because of the indirect steam, we can’t push it. Any ideas?

I am going to say the features that would make the app bit more interesting and also some features that were removed that we need back!

• Ability to change the logos of Movies, TV Shows and etc… (Maybe on the Plex Dashboard soon?)
• Icons under the logo for quality like 1080p,4K, Dolby Vision and which profile
• Manage Library Access got removed .. maybe we will get em back on the Plex Dashboard?
• Ability to change the bottom menu
• Maybe bring back the custom icons? why not?
• We are missing minor features like Refresh Metadata

That’s all I could think of so far tbh, if you have some… it would be good to just share it here.

Hello, do the N150 mini PCs support Quicksync? I’m currently running on a desktop with a NVIDA 1650 graphics card. With 6 users and no 4K content, my transcodes are minimum. Would this class of PCs work? It would be dedicated to Plex only. Thx

basically looking for the equivalent of the 423+. I looked for 223+ but couldn't find one?

New plex for iOS how do you add a show to a playlist?

Leave them an honest review on the Play Store and App Store. I'm not telling you to be positive or negative -- just be honest.

Companies generally tend to notice aggregate feedback in the stores more than on forums (trust me, they aren't "listening").

Hello,

I have the Plex pass but so many trailers are not showing up next to the movies. Mostly trailers are missing in Bollywood movies, very few in Hollywood movies and all in Tollywood movies and Korean movies. Is there any fix for it? I have almost more then 1k movies in each category(Hollywood, Bollywood, Tollywood, Cartoons and Korean).

Thank You.