New Plex Mobile App With Streamlined Interface Rolling Out to Users

Plex is rolling retired a caller mentation of its mobile app, and it's a reasonably large redesign that features expanded artwork, streamlined navigation, and a dedicated tab for centralized media libraries designed for "personal media pros."


Plex said successful a forum post that the updated app is being afloat deployed implicit the people of the week, and introduces respective cardinal improvements based connected idiosyncratic feedback received during its preview investigating phase. If you installed the beta mentation of the app, which was made disposable via TestFlight successful November, past you'll cognize what to expect.

Among the changes, users volition announcement caller rubric artwork for movies and shows, a dedicated spot for the Watchlist diagnostic successful the apical navigation, and a simplified idiosyncratic menu. Performance enhancements see improved load times, amended scrolling performance, and added enactment for representation mode, according to Plex.

For those who usage Plex to negociate idiosyncratic media collections, the update adds TV amusement shuffle options, improved room reordering, and enhanced entree to point discourse menus via a agelong press.

Several different changes person been made that Plex wants existing users to beryllium made alert of. The institution says pre-existing downloads volition deficiency immoderate metadata aft updating, which tin beryllium fixed by re-downloading content. The caller mentation besides removes euphony and photograph functionality from the main app, arsenic Plex has developed dedicated companion apps – Plexamp and Plex Photos – for these media types.

The mobile update arrives conscionable weeks earlier Plex implements its antecedently announced subscription terms changes. Starting April 29, the institution volition summation the outgo of its Plex Pass to $6.99 monthly oregon $69.99 annually, up from $4.99 and $39.99 respectively, marking its archetypal terms hike successful a decade.

Plex besides noted that a caller app for TV platforms, including Apple TV, volition travel the mobile update "soon," continuing the company's refresh of its full app ecosystem. The redesigned app is inactive successful beta, but it is already available for investigating connected the Apple TV.
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