2026.7.18

TestFlight build 16 — 2026-07-18

What to Test:
What's new:

Home hero: smoother page-to-page animation, tidier spacing, and a lighter left-edge scrim. Play/Resume buttons now name the episode they'll play (e.g. "Play S21, E8", or a resume bar showing "S5, E12 - 43m"). Logos fade in instead of popping.

Playback: Dolby Vision / direct-file HDR now carries correctly across back-to-back episodes, with display sync fixed. Fixed seeking-during-load snapping back to the start (notably DV over SMB). Cleaner startup - the spinner holds until the picture is really on screen, loading messages are paced better, and network files start faster. Fixed an end-of-file glitch when seeking near the end of a network file.

Player controls: the control bar now auto-hides when idle (stays up while a menu is open).

Settings: new Home Performance Overlay toggle under Help & Diagnostics. Added NFO / local sidecar metadata support.

Please test: episode playback and HDR across consecutive episodes, seeking over network shares and on Dolby Vision, control-bar auto-hide, and the Home hero.

Changes (91):

• Settings: wire up the Home Performance Overlay toggle
• Hero/detail Play buttons: name the episode that will play
• Hero scrim: extend fade 40pt past center (960 -> 1000)
• UIKit hero: narrow content column 80pt (576 -> 496)
• Hero scrim: soften to 0.55 and extend fade to screen center
• Hero scrim: horizontal left->right wash, clear ~40pt shy of center
• UIKit hero: shift column up another 20pt (net drop 60 -> 40)
• UIKit hero: shift column up 20pt for air above Continue Watching
• UIKit hero: widen buttons-to-pagination gap 20pt -> 40pt
• UIKit hero: lower content column 80pt; +20pt buttons-to-pagination gap
• Hero pills: flat-capsule border 2px @ 0.10 opacity
• Hero pills: raise flat-capsule border opacity 0.08 -> 0.13
• Hero wipe: speed the whole transition up a little (1.20s -> 1.05s)
• Hero wipe: speed the leaving-image trail back up (was too slow)
• Hero wipe: decouple curves — fast wipe, leaving image trails a little
• Hero wipe: soften shared curve expo-out -> ease-in-out (less rushed)
• Hero wipe: increase leaving-image drift to ~1200pt (0.625 of width)
• Hero wipe: drift the leaving image half the screen (as a width fraction)
• Hero wipe: sync the leaving-image drift to the wipe curve; +0.25s overall
• Hero backdrop wipe: slow ~0.1s and make the leaving image drift immediately
• Hero A/B toggle: move flip to a Settings debug row (Play/Pause conflicted)
• Home hero: DEBUG live UIKit<->SwiftUI foreground A/B toggle
• UIKit hero: cross-dissolve late-resolved logos instead of snapping
• MediaShareRuntimeFacet: internal quality fixes + monotonic-revision test
• IdentityIndexModel: cover the warm-lifecycle concurrency guards (tests only)
• ProfileFlowModel: re-apply Plex identity when the active profile is removed
• PlexHomeUsersModel: guard stale background Plex-token refresh (+ log fetch error)
• MainTabView: collapse the wide init via facet + SyncServices bundle (Stage 2)
• MainTabView: split the 2,429-line file into per-type files (Stage 1)
• arch-guard: multi-category observable classifier (truthful fan-out)
• Extract ProfileFlowModel facet from AppState (Batch 6)
• AccountsProvidersModel: filter per-profile active ids, log resolution errors, unit-test active-set matrix
• Extract MediaShareRuntimeFacet from AppState (Batch 5)
• Extract PlexHomeUsersModel facet from AppState (Batch 4)
• Dedupe ProfileSettingsModel construction and make all 18 sub-models injectable
• Extract AccountsProvidersModel hub from AppState (Batch 3)
• Extract IdentityIndexModel facet from AppState (Batch 2)
• Extract ProfileSettingsModel facet from AppState + add observable fan-out guard
• FeaturePlayback: split PlayerView body to cut type-check time
• MetadataKit: speed up TVDBClient.tokens type-checking
• Pin AetherEngine to plozz-pin-5.6.1-seekfixes-atmos (ffaac10)
• Refine loading-message pacing and animation
• Start windowed prefetch after neighbor resolution
• Publish Plozzigen range after load readiness
• perf(transport): read-ahead window in TransportIOReader to cut cold-start latency
• Preserve direct-file HDR across episode handoff
• fix(playback): hold bring-up spinner until the picture is genuinely on screen
• Fence stale playback before engine commit
• Fix direct-file HDR display synchronization
• Extract ControlsAutoHidePolicy to pin the auto-hide semantics under test
• Fix DV/SMB seek-during-load snapping playback back to start
• ProviderShare: collapse coordinator per-account maps into ShareCatalogRuntime (Batch 18)
• Auto-hide 1s after load, but never sooner than 4s after the last input
• refactor: extract share catalog read queries from the store
• Auto-hide the control bar when idle (keep pinned only while a menu is open)
• Auto-hide: gate the idle countdown on real playback, not a status blip
• refactor: extract share enrichment persistence repository
• refactor: extract local sidecar metadata repository
• Fix auto-hide ordering: 4s idle window starts after playback presents
• refactor: extract scan catalog writer from share store
• Keep transport open while video is still loading
• Clamp committed seeks below EOF to stop network-file end-fault
• refactor: lift catalog DTOs out of ShareCatalogStore namespace
• refactor: narrow share provider runtime capabilities
• refactor: make media share runtime ownership atomic
• refactor: inject share metadata pipeline construction
• fix: scope detail snapshots to effective content identity
• perf: coalesce detail-cache pruning and modernize artwork cache
• perf: move metadata cache I/O off actor execution
• fix: enforce NFO semantics and private catalog ordering
• fix: prune orphan share metadata transactionally
• Extract ForegroundReloadCoordinator from PlayerViewModel
• Extract PlayerMenuRowStack + Audio/Speed/Sync panes
• Extract SubtitleDownloadScreen and SubtitleSyncScreen
• Extract SubtitleStylePanel from PlayerControls
• Extract InfoPanelView from PlayerControls
• Split PlayerControls support types into PlayerControlsSupport.swift
• refactor: split share catalog persistence responsibilities
• refactor(FeaturePlayback): extract UpNextPresentationDecision + PlaybackClockReconciler
• refactor(FeaturePlayback): extract ScrubGestureInterpreter from PlayerInputViewController
• refactor(FeaturePlayback): extract EngineHandoffCoordinator from PlayerViewModel
• fix: close arbiter retirement admission races and reason leak
• fix: record current scan completion and retire arbiters
• fix: never reconnect on cancellation and classify mapped cancelled reads
• fix: fence metadata scheduling generations and cancellation
• fix: remove force-close minimum floor; honor the literal absolute deadline
• fix: absolute transition deadline and cancel-independent force-close
• fix: bound media I/O transitions and prioritize playback
• test: characterize metadata foundation remediation
• Decompose local metadata policies
• Add NFO metadata enrichment