

Sigmon reports that content he has stored on his Plex server doesn’t consistently show up to play through with the TV application. The integration does not appear to be fully rolled out just yet. Your playback, searches, purchases, and device trust score are used to personalize your experience, improve that of others, send you notifications, and prevent fraud. This participating app will share what you watch with Apple. When you connect Plex with the Apple TV app, you’ll see the following explanation: What this means is that content that you have in Plex will now appear in the TV app and in places like your Up Next queue. The TV app integration has surfaced in the latest TestFlight beta of the Plex app. Plex’s testing of TV app integration was first spotted by friend of the site Will Sigmon, who shared it on Twitter yesterday. The Apple TV app can surface content from apps such as Hulu and Amazon Prime Video, making it easy to track what you’re watching in a single app, then jump out to individual apps to actually watch the content. The TV app serves multiple purposes, and one of those purposes is to serve as a hub for content from other streaming applications.

As detailed in our privacy policy, we don’t know what content our users have in their personal media libraries.” To make this work we provide Apple with a list of content we have available for streaming.

We’d love to integrate personal media as well but that’s not technically possible for a couple reasons. “This feature will only work with our free on demand movies and TV shows. Update: A Plex employee on Reddit has explained more about what this means: Once it’s fully developed, this feature will allow users to find Plex content through the TV application on their iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV. The popular media hosting and streaming platform Plex has started testing Apple TV app integration.
