2026.9.20

TestFlight build 40 — 2026-09-20

What to Test:

tvOS

New
• Browse collections inside Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby libraries, with full paged collection grids.

Updated
• The Home hero's Featured section now supports TMDB, TheTVDB, TVmaze, and optional AniList anime.
• Reduced repeated artwork, metadata, and sync work while Home loads.
• Rebuilt library grids for improved performance and scrolling.
• The default library grid now uses six columns.
• Updated the playback engine and improved HDR10+ detection for Emby.
• Improved native HDR and Dolby Vision display matching.
• Animated startup logo.

Fixed
• Extras now use their own thumbnails instead of inherited movie artwork.
• Opening a Plex collection now loads its titles correctly.
• Plex edition labels and selected playback versions stay consistent across libraries and servers.
• Artwork loads and network-share connections can recover after stalls or failures.
• Seek swipes retain movement at the start and end of each gesture.
• Settings descriptions remain readable on focused rows.

iOS/iPadOS

New
• Browse collections inside Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby libraries, with full paged collection grids.

Updated
• The Home hero's Featured section now supports TMDB, TheTVDB, TVmaze, and optional AniList anime.
• Reduced repeated artwork, metadata, and sync work while Home loads.
• Updated the playback engine and improved HDR10+ detection for Emby.

Fixed
• Extras now use their own thumbnails instead of inherited movie artwork.
• Opening a Plex collection now loads its titles correctly.
• Plex edition labels and selected playback versions stay consistent across libraries and servers.
• Artwork loads and network-share connections can recover after stalls or failures.

Changes:

• Prepare TestFlight 40
• Simplify Featured discovery and improve request actions
• Preserve accessibility titles on native cards
• Improve remote scrubbing responsiveness
• Update AetherEngine to 7.8.1
• Simplify library loading placeholders
• Keep library position while titles load
• Fix hero refresh ownership, membership, and status publication
• Improve collections, library scrolling, and edition selection
• Preserve library scroll and paging through catalog refreshes
• Restore native artwork focus with reusable library cells
• Preserve held native scrolling in six-column library grids
• Favor recent Featured picks and make source labels optional
• Fix subtitle contrast on focused settings rows
• Match library tab button height to the Sort control
• Restore grouped library tabs with a readable material background
• Use native library mode buttons and restore scrolling headers
• Compact library mode tabs and remove the selection checkmark
• Show collection tabs and browse members in paged library grids
• feat: expand Featured discovery beyond Seerr
• Confirm missing Emby HDR10+ metadata with bounded probing
• Browse collections inside libraries and correct provider discovery
• Use asset display criteria and preserve HDR source diagnostics
• Update README links and image sources
• Fix Plex extras, collection browsing, and edition selection
• feat: keep hero discovery picks fresh across launches
• fix: recover stalled artwork loads and failed transport sessions
• Record hidden guide structure in cold Home checks
• Defer unseen Live TV while Home starts
• Reuse navigation plans and isolate cold Hero transition tests
• Record focused card geometry during physical Home navigation
• Avoid Unicode searches for ASCII portable Live TV identifiers
• Isolate Continue Watching overlay updates and measure hero navigation
• Avoid redundant artwork work when Home rows enter
• Animate the startup logo with expressive faces
• Integrate parallel release and CI pipeline
• Reduce Home navigation stalls and startup contention
• Parallelize release validation and TestFlight delivery

2026.9.18

TestFlight build 39 — 2026-09-18

What to Test:

tvOS

New
• Plex only: Common Sense Media age recommendations and family guidance for movies and shows. Age badges can appear in Home and detail headers; detailed guidance requires Plex Pass access.

Updated
• Updated the playback engine for more reliable seeking, playback recovery, and HDR/Dolby Vision handling.
• Improved HDR10+ direct-play compatibility and format labels.
• Extended review-score limits to Home and tvOS detail headers.
• Stronger background dimming and consistent borders for dialogs in Dark and Black appearance.

Fixed
• Fixed focus style for library cards with system focus on.
• Prevented native information cards from shrinking or clipping text during layout updates.
• Stopped repeated fades and partial rating labels on movie detail pages.

iOS/iPadOS

New
• Plex only: Common Sense Media age recommendations and family guidance for movies and shows. Age badges can appear in Home and detail headers; detailed guidance requires Plex Pass access.

Updated
• Updated the playback engine for more reliable seeking, playback recovery, and HDR/Dolby Vision handling.
• Improved HDR10+ direct-play compatibility and format labels.
• Extended review-score limits to Home headers.
• Subtler dialog borders in Black appearance.

Changes:

• Prepare TestFlight build 39 release notes
• Localize family guidance and adopt bounded translation review
• fix: contain loading shimmer animation to its stripe
• fix: isolate Library artwork focus and stabilize native card sizing
• fix: preserve Library artwork insets under native focus
• fix: prevent guidance text clipping and align tile disclosure
• refactor: align family guidance header into two rows
• fix: tune Black dialog borders to thirteen percent
• fix: soften Black dialog borders to eight percent
• fix: deepen dialog dimming and soften Black appearance borders
• fix: unify custom dialog borders and deepen dark backdrops
• fix: allow guidance reader exit and use themed dialog controls
• fix: correct family guidance dialog focus and presentation
• fix: enlarge Common Sense header icon by twenty percent
• feat: make family guidance age-first and add hero age badges
• feat: show Plex Common Sense Media in Ratings
• fix: preserve HDR10+ sources and per-frame display metadata
• build: update AetherEngine to 7.1.1

2026.9.16

TestFlight build 38

Apple TV

Updated
• Live TV content refinements

Fixed
• Reduced freezes with Sync Live TV enabled
• Live TV retries failed library connections sooner

iPhone / iPad

Updated
• Live TV content refinements
• Redesigned More page and clearer navigation arrangement
• Settings tab can be hidden; Settings stays available top-right

Fixed
• Reduced freezes with Sync Live TV enabled
• Live TV retries failed library connections sooner
• Crash when opening Appearance settings

Plozz 2026.9.15 (37)

Apple TV

New

• Live TV
• Subtitle search shows a File match badge when Jellyfin or Emby confirms a match to your video file

Updated

• Default focus is now "system"
• New animations when opening and closing detail pages
• Animation and performance optimizations on Home
• Navigation menu is no longer open by default on app launch
• Hide or reorder destinations in every navigation style, including library shortcuts in the sidebars; Settings stays available
• In the custom metadata-provider order, press and hold a provider to hide, show, or move it

Fixed

• Subtitle downloads remain available when a video has no installed subtitle tracks
• Jellyfin streaming works when the server has legacy API-key authentication disabled
• Completed titles stay out of Continue Watching while Plozz retries clearing their saved playback position
• Theme music no longer starts over regular music playback

iPhone/iPad

New

• Live TV
• Subtitle search shows a File match badge when Jellyfin or Emby confirms a match to your video file

Updated

• Home stays responsive while matching titles across your connected libraries
• Reorder your tabs or hide Home, Watchlist, Downloads, and Search; the new Settings tab cannot be hidden
• Picture in Picture can keep its window open when playback reloads
• In the custom metadata-provider order, press and hold a provider to hide, show, or move it

Fixed

• Jellyfin streaming works when the server has legacy API-key authentication disabled
• Completed titles stay out of Continue Watching while Plozz retries clearing their saved playback position

2026.9.10

TestFlight build 36 — 2026-09-10

What to Test:

tvOS

New
• Now Playing support adds playback controls to Control Center and connected accessories
• Mark individual seasons watched or unwatched from the season row
• Optionally prevent accidental exits from top-level navigation with the Back button

Updated
• Home and show pages load with fewer server requests on Jellyfin and Emby
• Home hero ratings are hidden by default and can be enabled in Customize Home
• Avenir Next replaces Avenir for subtitles
• Nearby seasons load without waiting for slow artwork downloads
• Episode thumbnails are prepared sooner while respecting artwork and spoiler preferences

Fixed
• Continue Watching advances after episode completion instead of losing the show or burying its next episode
• Closed network connections no longer cause the app to quit unexpectedly
• Opening an episode keeps focus on the matching card, even while a large show loads
• Moving down from Play reaches the episode browser instead of skipping past it
• Episode loading and retry states stay reachable, with unclipped focus highlights
• Profile avatars stay circular and are easier to see in the native sidebar
• Watchlist no longer hides top-level navigation

iOS/iPadOS

New
• Now Playing support adds playback controls to the Lock Screen, Control Center, and connected accessories
• Choose rating sources, their priority, and the maximum scores shown in the detail hero
• Optionally keep video audio playing when locking the screen or leaving the app

Updated
• Home and show pages load with fewer server requests on Jellyfin and Emby
• Home hero ratings are hidden by default and can be enabled in Customize Home
• Avenir Next replaces Avenir for subtitles
• Detail pages put metadata, descriptions, and controls below the artwork for easier reading
• Home and detail descriptions use two lines; tap More on detail pages for the full synopsis
• Picture and sound badges take up less space alongside ratings
• Download controls stay in the top-right corner of detail pages
• Administrator requests use a centered confirmation alert

Fixed
• Continue Watching advances after episode completion instead of losing the show or burying its next episode
• Closed network connections no longer cause the app to quit unexpectedly
• Long Play and Resume button labels no longer get cut off
• Request Seasons appears in the detail hero when there is nothing to play or download

Changes:

• Add approved TestFlight 36 release notes
• Keep loading episode focus overflow unclipped
• Keep episode-first focus available while large series load
• Lower iOS detail hero content by 24 points
• Center the administrator request confirmation on iOS
• Restore the detail hero action for request-only series
• Restore episode navigation and observe native season focus
• Prepare matching episode artwork and preserve early season focus
• Keep season preloads responsive when artwork is slow
• Reduce Emby and Jellyfin Home and series browsing requests
• Make Home ratings opt-in and keep downloads in the detail toolbar
• Finish Now Playing localization and verify XCTest results
• Keep hero availability above the title and shorten detail synopses
• Restore every available score in the full Ratings section
• Restore visual format badges in the compact detail header
• Keep compact detail ratings and formats on a single line
• Move compact detail information off the artwork
• Bring Home's artwork treatment to compact detail heroes
• Protect Play labels and simplify compact hero copy
• Enlarge Now Playing logos for compact thumbnails
• Overlay title logos on video Now Playing backdrops
• Keep iPhone detail pages focused on playback and episodes
• Lower iPhone detail actions without moving the logo
• Prototype a labeled information panel on iPhone detail pages
• Keep the iPhone detail summary on the hero centerline
• Give iPhone detail information a distinct About section
• Prototype a lighter iPhone detail hero with readable information below
• Adapt detail metadata placement to its measured width
• Balance compact format badges against metadata text
• Scale iOS format badges with metadata text
• Add video Now Playing and opt-in iOS background audio
• Read Plex Continue Watching items including untouched next episodes
• Keep Plex next episodes recent despite old resume dates
• fix: keep next-up updates active while Home is offscreen
• l10n: translate season watch actions into all supported languages
• fix: present season watch actions through a native menu
• fix: refresh next-up after completed watch writes land
• feat: mark individual seasons watched from the season row
• fix: refresh Continue Watching after completing an episode
• fix: enlarge native sidebar profile avatar to 44 points
• fix: preserve circular avatars in native tvOS navigation
• fix: use native focus scopes for TV exit protection
• fix: defer Back press delivery during exit protection
• Preserve build lease during localization generation
• Reuse locked Swift package storage across build writers
• Add optional accidental-exit protection for tvOS navigation
• feat: replace Avenir with Avenir Next for subtitles
• Prevent broken-pipe signals from terminating Plozz
• Reduce duplicated Swift package storage

2026.9.7

TestFlight build 35 — 2026-09-07

What to Test:

tvOS

New
• Choose Mixed, Movies, TV Shows, or Personal Videos for network shares
• Avenir font for subtitles

Updated
• Browse folders directly from network-share libraries
• Posters now show a clock for pending or processing requests
• Search now has a dedicated button for opening the Pinned Sidebar

Fixed
• Changing Seerr servers now requires relinking the affected profiles
• Network-share sorting stays consistent as you scroll
• Interrupted network-share scans no longer remove existing titles
• Search keyboard navigation no longer opens the sidebar unexpectedly

iOS/iPadOS

New
• Choose Mixed, Movies, TV Shows, or Personal Videos for network shares
• Avenir font for subtitles

Updated
• Browse folders directly from network-share libraries
• Posters now show a clock for pending or processing requests
• See missing episodes and request their seasons from the download menu
• Clearer labels distinguish device downloads from library requests

Fixed
• Changing Seerr servers now requires relinking the affected profiles
• Network-share sorting stays consistent as you scroll
• Interrupted network-share scans no longer remove existing titles
• Downloads resume correctly after switching apps
• Long Play, Request, and Download button labels no longer get cut off

Changes:

• Add approved TestFlight 35 release notes
• Complete localization and integration for season request workflows
• Hide redundant library status on season episode rows
• Use empty full-frame dashed artwork placeholders
• Use faint dashed frames for unavailable artwork
• Use neutral artwork symbols for unavailable media
• Clarify device downloads versus library requests
• Show complete episode coverage in season downloads
• Fix movie folder recognition across shared library copies
• Refine season sheet actions and status spacing
• Keep season artwork, labels, and request actions visually consistent
• Unify season request status and download access in one list
• Restore media-aware navigation from the main share browser
• Move show-detail season requests into the download sheet
• Keep matched share titles in detail navigation
• Keep hero action text readable and outline requested poster clocks
• refactor: group similar subtitle fonts in picker order
• Match the requested clock to the existing plus badge style
• Improve share browsing performance and preserve posters
• feat: add Avenir as a subtitle font
• Show a clock on posters with existing Seerr requests
• Show persistent per-season Seerr request status
• feat: add attested bounded Apple maintenance-window policies
• fix: preserve authenticated leases through bounded subprocesses
• Restore the Search chevron stroke with narrower proportions
• Refine the Search capsule chevron proportions
• fix: make localized status strings extractable
• Restore pinned Home navigation and open Search navigation on focus
• Use compact Home navigation while the hero is visible
• Localize the pinned-navigation accessibility hint
• feat: add release-safe build cleanup interlock
• Bind Seerr profile users to their server endpoint
• Refine Search glass transitions and native left-edge navigation
• Morph the Search capsule into the navigation glass panel
• Make incremental share scans safer and avoid redundant work
• Open navigation from the leading edge of Search results
• Hand Search navigation focus through the shared UIKit window
• Improve media-share libraries and folder browsing on iOS and tvOS
• Keep Search directional input native and focus navigation on entry
• Keep the Search capsule out of navigation's return-focus path
• Enter Search content and open its navigation fully expanded
• Give Search a compact glass navigation button
• Fix suspension database lock crash

2026.9.6

TestFlight build 34 — 2026-09-06

What to Test:

tvOS

New
• Subtitle Extra Line Position control

Fixed
• Missing titles in Continue Watching
• Play and Resume buttons on show pages are HOPEFULLY behaving themselves now!
• Library titles incorrectly shown as unavailable
• Subtitle positioning and downloaded subtitles on replay
• First-generation Siri Remote swipes and edge clicks
• Pinned Sidebar swipe navigation

iOS/iPadOS

New
• Subtitle Extra Line Position control

Fixed
• Missing titles in Continue Watching
• Play and Resume buttons on show pages are HOPEFULLY behaving themselves now!
• Library titles incorrectly shown as unavailable
• Subtitle positioning and downloaded subtitles on replay

Changes:

• Shorten iOS hero progress bars to 48 points
• Add a playful note about the Play and Resume fixes
• Prepare TestFlight build 34
• Localize Start watching and refresh UIKit labels with the app language
• fix: preserve downloaded SRT positioning and replay availability
• Clarify first-episode Play labels and shrink loading placeholders
• Keep a stable Play placeholder while episode details resolve
• Show first-open resume targets without waiting for every server
• Seed detail resume buttons from current Continue Watching
• Keep all eligible Continue Watching titles
• Fix library detail recovery after ownership index misses
• Fix first-generation Siri Remote playback gestures
• chore: localize subtitle positioning controls
• refactor: clarify extra subtitle line positioning
• feat: add configurable vertical subtitle anchoring
• fix: align subtitles to the top edge at one hundred percent
• feat: allow subtitle positions down to minus five percent
• fix: align subtitles to the screen edge across fonts

2026.9.3

TestFlight build 33 — 2026-09-03

What to Test:

tvOS

New
• Watchlist page

Updated
• Choose a specific folder inside a network share
• Pinned Sidebar layout and animation

Fixed
• Sidebar launch crash
• Watchlist syncing and performance
• Native playback stability
• SMB playback after quickly reopening videos

iOS/iPadOS

New
• Watchlist page

Updated
• Choose a specific folder inside a network share

Fixed
• Watchlist syncing and performance
• Native playback stability
• SMB playback after quickly reopening videos

Changes:

• Prepare TestFlight build 33
• Localize network share folder selection
• Stabilize source switch concurrency test
• Update AetherEngine to 6.66.0
• Mark NFS validation text as diagnostic
• Add folder selection to network shares
• Drain SMB transport on playback exit
• Fix tvOS sidebar launch crash
• Finalize approved build 32 release notes

2026.9.2

TestFlight build 32 — 2026-09-02

What to Test:

tvOS

New
• Watchlist page

Fixed
• Watchlist changes made in other apps now sync correctly
• Large Watchlist loading and updates
• Native playback stability

iOS/iPadOS

New
• Watchlist page

Updated
• Offline download reliability and controls

Fixed
• Watchlist changes made in other apps now sync correctly
• Large Watchlist loading and updates
• Plex reduced-quality offline playback
• Native playback stability

Changes:

• Prepare build 32 for TestFlight
• Harden cross-provider downloads
• Use Plex download queue for renditions
• Fix Plex reduced-quality downloads
• Fix Plex rendition downloads
• Anchor episode download quality dialogs
• feat: complete iOS offline downloads
• Show checkmark for completed downloads
• Render download progress as tab image
• Use neutral active download progress
• Show download progress in navigation
• Keep download status on controls
• Show live download picker status
• Add download picker thumbnails
• Keep iOS download action trailing
• Refine iOS series download controls
• Clarify Appearance settings summary
• Refine iOS detail action layout
• Fix iOS watchlist layout defaults
• Remove build label from crash reporting copy
• Clarify crash report privacy copy
• Tighten diagnostics upload copy
• Simplify diagnostics settings
• Complete universal watchlist synchronization
• Stabilize Watchlist presentation state
• Match Watchlist library loading UI
• Fix large Watchlist startup loading
• Improve large Watchlist navigation
• Type-erase rail destination routing
• Prevent Watchlist rail launch crash
• Add pinned Watchlist navigation
• Avoid startup watchlist removal state
• Improve watchlist removal feedback
• Harden universal watchlist synchronization
• Fix partial Plex watchlist pagination
• Fix AVPlayer observer ownership crash

2026.8.31

TestFlight build 31 — 2026-08-31

What to Test:

tvOS

New
• Special features and bonus videos on movie and show pages from Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, and network shares

Updated
• New Plozz app icon and logo
• Updated Pinned Sidebar design with better behavior; long library names no longer truncate

Fixed
• Artwork preferences now respect the "Prefer artwork from your library" setting; enable it to use images from your server or files
• Pinned Sidebar focus with slower libraries

iOS/iPadOS

New
• Special features and bonus videos on movie and show pages from Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, and network shares

Updated
• New Plozz app icon and logo
• Continue Watching artwork loads sooner

Fixed
• Artwork preferences now respect the "Prefer artwork from your library" setting; enable it to use images from your server or files
• Bitmap subtitles appearing squashed

Changes:

• Add release 31 notes
• Translate unified extras copy
• Sync unified extras localizations
• Eliminate navigation icon bounce
• Balance navigation pill padding
• Stabilize navigation rail geometry
• Refine rounded navigation content
• Round navigation rail items
• Fine tune navigation divider inset
• Refine navigation item spacing
• Inset navigation dividers further
• Center expanded navigation dividers
• Refresh Plozz branding assets
• Expand pinned library dividers
• Simplify pinned library divider
• Marquee long pinned navigation labels
• Align Music with pinned navigation
• Stabilize pinned menu focus handoff
• Collapse pinned menu after navigation
• Extend pinned menu past safe area
• Simplify pinned profile row
• Refine pinned menu geometry
• Remove idle pinned menu row fills
• Restyle pinned navigation as menu
• Smooth pinned sidebar list fades
• Fix pinned sidebar hero focus
• Refine navigation choice copy
• Add navigation choice onboarding
• Unify iOS media rail spacing
• Unify iOS detail rail sizing
• Remove redundant extras badges
• Fix iOS bitmap subtitle geometry
• Adapt media status cues on iOS
• Add unified media extras
• Localize artwork preference settings
• Prefetch Continue Watching artwork on iOS
• Respect artwork preferences across platforms
• feat: target release notes by platform
• Harden disk reclaim against active builds