Tired of digging through “hamburger” menus in the Plex mobile app to reach your personal media? Plex is launching a public preview of a revamped mobile app that makes libraries far more prominent.
The biggest change: the three-line hamburger menu is gone. A dedicated Libraries tab now sits in the bottom navigation alongside Live TV, On Demand, and Discover, letting you jump straight to your personal movies and TV shows. Tabs such as Trending, Activity, Find Friends, and My Profile — which pushed Plex’s growing social features — have been removed from the bottom nav. Social features remain accessible via the Discover tab and a streamlined user menu.
Plex also promises expanded use of artwork across the app, showing title art for movies and shows where available instead of plain title text on detail pages.
This redesign is part of a broader app strategy Plex announced in September, which includes spinning off music playback to the Plexamp app and offering a separate Plex Photos app (currently in beta). Plex says it’s performing a top-to-bottom code overhaul to unify its apps on a single codebase, which should enable faster updates across platforms.
The opt-in public preview is missing some features — notably playlists and media casting — but Plex plans to close those gaps during testing. The company expects the new app to exit preview by early 2025.
Author: Ben Patterson, Senior Writer, TechHive
