Explore gains AniList, Simkl and Plex catalogs, alongside the existing Trakt, MyAnimeList and Seerr sources
Six new languages — Turkish, Hungarian, Traditional Chinese, Azerbaijani, Kazakh and Uzbek — with every existing translation brought up to date with the current English text
Playback speed now goes up to 8x, up from 3x
Transcoded Plex video behaves like a local file: seeking no longer reloads the stream, the timeline scrubs as you drag, and switching subtitles is instant
Most single-line Apple TV text fields now use the native tvOS keyboard instead of the in-app overlay keyboard
New features
Playback speeds up to 8x (#1545)
Explore: AniList, Simkl and Plex catalogs, each appearing once the matching account is connected
Jellyfin: backdrops on detail, Explore and TV spotlight screens cycle through all the artwork on the server
Detail: the director is listed alongside studio and rating
Detail: episode cards show the file size
TV: an Appearance setting shows spotlight artwork in the top-right corner instead of filling the screen, off by default (#1628)
Downloads: removing a synced playlist or collection can also delete the downloads it made, keeping anything another sync or profile still uses (#1656)
Downloads: Android warns on the Downloads screen when battery or notification settings would stop downloads in the background, with a button straight to the right system screen
Six new languages: Turkish, Hungarian, Traditional Chinese, Azerbaijani, Kazakh and Uzbek
Traditional Chinese shows dates and durations in Traditional characters, Plex sends its text back in Traditional Chinese, and a device set to Traditional Chinese picks it automatically
Playback
Seeking in a transcoded Plex video no longer reloads the stream from the server, and dragging the timeline moves the video as you drag
Changing subtitles on a transcoded Plex video is an instant local switch instead of a new transcode
Subtitles keep showing on a transcoded video when you change playback speed (#1622)
Your subtitle choice carries across episode changes (#1635)
A track you pick by hand is no longer switched back to the automatic choice moments later
Playback no longer hangs on the loading spinner when a subtitle file will not load — it starts without subtitles and tells you (#1583)
Next and previous episode still work on Plex when the server does not return a play queue
When the next episode cannot be loaded, the player retries and reports it instead of just closing
Skipping forward at the live edge no longer restarts a live TV stream
Holding an arrow key no longer adds an extra seek step before focus reaches the timeline
Leaving a Watch Together session closes the player even when the room cannot be reached
Plex
Shared servers are no longer shown as offline at startup while the app is still getting access to them
Explore no longer says an item is missing from your library when that library was scanned with an older Plex agent (#1566)
An artist page lists their singles, EPs and compilations instead of only full albums (#1577)
Lyrics stored in .lrc or .txt files next to your music now show instead of "no lyrics available" (#1585)
Videos with embedded closed captions play again instead of failing with a subtitle error, and their file info opens (#1589)
Live TV no longer forces closed captions on with no way to turn them off (#1590)
Search returns shows and music from large libraries instead of only movies (#1598)
The metadata editor's Advanced settings show the values set on your server instead of blank defaults
Jellyfin
Music library browsing works again instead of timing out on large libraries (#1557)
Libraries with no content type set now list their movies and shows
Mixed libraries no longer list every episode at the top level (#1675)
Recently Added lists load more as you scroll instead of fetching everything at once (#1611)
Marking a music video as unwatched sticks instead of flipping back to watched (#1610)
A server that redirects to HTTPS or to a sub-path on the same address is saved with that address, and a redirect to a different host now asks you to enter the final address
Signing in works on devices whose name the server would otherwise reject, and when the app cannot read its own version number
Server addresses that are temporarily unreachable are kept when you save a connection instead of being dropped
Android
Servers behind a certificate authority you installed on the device now connect
Dolby Vision video keeps playing correctly after you seek
A video that was already playing keeps going in the same player when the device's video decoder fails, instead of switching to the backup player (#1540)
An episode that fails to start shows the error and leaves the player, instead of sitting on a black screen while your server still counts it as playing (#1673)
Pressing play while another app is using the sound no longer fails — playback starts once that app is done
Subtitles that stayed invisible on some videos now show up (#1681)
Apple TV
Most single-line text fields use the native tvOS keyboard instead of the in-app overlay keyboard; multi-line fields and a few settings fields keep the overlay
Windows
Taps and drags over the video reach the app instead of being swallowed
Display refresh rate and HDR are restored after playback even when the first attempt fails
TV interface
Selecting an episode in a shelf on a detail page starts playback (#1608)
The home screen starts on Continue Watching even when that row loads after the screen appears, and stays where you moved it if you already navigated (#1602)
The spotlight picks up updated details when a shelf reloads
Holding Select on the on-screen keyboard or PIN pad types one character instead of repeating
Moving between cards and shelves is smoother
Long Live TV guides scroll more smoothly
The Live TV guide no longer flashes the full channel lineup and moves your cursor while favorites refresh
Downloads
Running out of space stops downloads with a "storage full" message and marks every stopped download as failed, not just the one that hit the limit — and the app still opens afterwards
Completed downloads no longer sit at "downloading 0%" after a reconnect
Removing a synced playlist or collection no longer deletes episodes that a show or season sync still covers
Libraries and browsing
Switching libraries or tabs quickly no longer lets the previous library's results or focus land in the new one
Filters that fail to load show an error you can retry instead of an empty list
A playlist reorder or removal that fails puts the list back the way it was
The watchlist button on an Explore item can be pressed straight away instead of being greyed out while the app checks your watchlist
When a server sends data the app cannot read, your last working copy is kept for offline viewing instead of being overwritten
Music
The player's "Playing from" line follows the album of the track that is playing, and shows its year (#1600)
Starting playback twice in quick succession no longer lets the first, slower album win, and "Play next" no longer appends to a queue you already replaced
Collections and playlists in music libraries show as square cards instead of tall posters
Artwork
Clear logos keep their aspect ratio instead of being stretched
The detail page backdrop is no longer cropped on wide windows (#1588)
Cast photos are sharp instead of blurry (#1591)
Settings and navigation
Settings rows use the same compact height and text size as lists everywhere else in the app
"Clear Cache" is now "Clear Image Cache" and says it only clears artwork and thumbnails
On phones, closing Manage Libraries no longer closes Settings with it
Back closes an open sheet on phones and tablets instead of leaving it stuck open
Screen readers no longer read the screen behind an open sheet
Settings you export after restarting the app keep your tracker library filters, so restoring them no longer scrobbles libraries you had excluded
With Video Player Navigation on, Escape steps back through the player instead of dropping out of fullscreen
On desktop, the second Back press on the home screen closes Plezy as the prompt says (#1582)
