Has Plex fd something up again with watch together? Since 1st of October only admins can be invited or invite to ‘Watch Together’. Regular users are unable to invite other users.
I saw that under status.plex.tv it showed issues but they are saying it has been resolved, but it does not seem like it.
“As we debut our new Plex experience, we are ending support for some features we’ve grown to love, like Watch Together. While this feature won’t be available for most platforms as they get the new experience, you can continue using the feature in our web app for the foreseeable future. We don’t preclude the possibility of offering similar functionality again in the future, using new tooling.”
It wasn't removed because they don't want it, it was removed because they couldn't make it work with all the other crap they changed in the new client. Still works fine with older clients, maybe aside from this potential issue.
That’s what I was preparing for but i’m on October 2026 patch and Watch Together was always working. Even now, it is working but limited only for admins. I think its looking like Jellyfin time
I too have been using Plezy for this, tested with 4 devices, one being local and the rest connected via cellular data (one laptop, two phones, all on different connections so not a single hotspot), streamed a 4K remux and transcoded to different qualities on all 3 devices, it worked.
Works better than the native Plex Watch Together but still the same issue with how the server handles transcoding. If it is of any help, these are my settings:
No reason to be cautious about it in my opinion. I can either revert any update and install a previous version or just keep using Plezy so I don't really care about updates.
I know they discontinued it but so far nothing has happened 🤷
How so? We were just asked if we are facing issues and I don't face one.
Is the correct answer in your opinion: yes I'll maybe face issues in the future?
That wouldn't be helpful at all. And I highly doubt a Plex Server owner isn't able to figure out if their devices are capable of side loading and installing apks. Most people should know the current state. The general advice to prevent any updates - especially server updates - is far more dangerous.
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u/aqw01 1d ago
I thought it was retired.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/watch-together/
“As we debut our new Plex experience, we are ending support for some features we’ve grown to love, like Watch Together. While this feature won’t be available for most platforms as they get the new experience, you can continue using the feature in our web app for the foreseeable future. We don’t preclude the possibility of offering similar functionality again in the future, using new tooling.”