The Android app allows you to adjust a number of settings. You can access these from the Settings entry using the gear icon in the Navigation Menu.
Note: Not all individual settings will be available on all devices. Settings may be hidden on devices or platforms when they are not applicable, or my not be shown depending on subscription status.
Account
The email of one your Plex account. Note this cannot be edited here and must be done in the web app in browser at https://app.plex.tv/desktop/#!/settings/account
Username
Edit the username of your account
Subscription Plan
If you are signed in with a Plex account that has a Plex Pass subscription which term subscription you have.
Account Visibility & Activity Sharing
Permissions your Profile and activities on Plex
Sync Your Watch State and Ratings
Sync your watched/played state and personal ratings of movies and episodes with your Plex account online Sync Watch State and Ratings.
Sign Out
Should you wish to disconnect the app from you Plex account you can simply tap Sign Out to sign your Plex account out of the app.
Tip!: Signing into your Plex account will assist the app in discovering any local or remote/shared servers, along with activating the app if you have a Plex Pass subscription.
Related Page: Purchasing a Plex Pass Subscription Through Amazon
Related Page: Purchasing a Plex Pass Subscription Through Google Play
Plex Home
Plex Home allows you to create a group of family and friends who share devices in same home, and manage access to media on a per-user basis.
Related Page: Plex Home
Manage Library Access
List of all accounts that you have given or have given you access to libraries from Plex Media Servers
Related Page: Managing Library Access
Experience
Sign In Automatically
If you’re in a Plex Home, you can use this option to have the app automatically sign in to the currently-selected user and bypass any PIN for that user. This might be useful if you’re the only one that ever uses your phone and you don’t want to be bothered by the user menu appearing.
Related Page: Plex Home
Friendly Name
The device name as it will appear on the Server Dashboard and the name in available Plex Companion target players
Related Page: Server Status and Dashboard
Related Page: Casting, Flinging, & Remote Control
Application Layout
Determines if the layout the device will use:
- Mobile– The device will use the app layout designed for mobile devices.
- TV – The device will use the big screen app interface. (will not work on devices with only touch interface)
Watched Indicators for Personal Media
You can control how watched indicators display on certain personal media types. Watched Indicators are always shown for episode and season list items on details pages regardless of this setting.
Play Theme Music
Choose if you would like the Theme Music played while browsing TV Shows.
Related Page: TV Theme Music & Submissions
Remember selected tab
Select this option to have the app remember which tab you last selected for each source (ie. Recommended, Library, Collections, etc.)
Notifications
New Item in On Deck
Send a notification when an item is added to a library that causes your On Deck
to change. You can specify all or specific libraries. (Note that while other library types may be listed, this only applies to “TV” libraries.)
New Content Added to Library
Send a notification when new content is added to a Movie, TV or Music library. You can specify all or specific libraries.
Playback Started
For server admins, you can be notified when a user you share with starts playback from your Plex Media Server. In the setting, you can choose which owned servers will report playback as well as for which shared users you wish to receive notifications.
New Devices
This notification is sent the first time a device accesses your server for any reason.
Database Corruption Detected
If your Plex Media Server detects corruption in its database. You can configure for all or individual servers that you administer.
Database Backed Up
Whenever your server successfully completes a database back up via Scheduled Tasks. You can configure for all or individual servers that you administer.
Related Page: Push Notifications
Downloads
Use Mobile Data
If enabled, Sync will use cellular data (if no WiFi connection is available) when performing a sync. This option is only visible for devices that have a cellular/mobile connection.
Storage Limit
Set a limit on the amount of local storage space that Mobile Sync can use for synced content.
Sync Storage Location
Select the location that Mobile Sync will use for synced content.
Related Page: Downloads Overview
Quality
Video Quality :Max Video quality to download. Server will transcode if lower than bitrate of file.
Audio Quality : Max Audio quality to download for audio files. Server will transcode if lower than bitrate of file.
Player Experience
Auto Play/Play “Up Next” videos automatically
When the Post Play screen is presented after playback, choose whether an “up next” video should be played automatically after a short countdown. This is often referred to as Autoplay.
Cinema Extras
The cinema trailers setting controls how many cinema trailers will play before a movie. Source settings can be controlled through Plex Media Server.
Rewind on Resume (Plex Pass Required)
When resuming playback of a paused item, you can choose to have the playback “rewind” and start X number of second prior to the point at which it was paused. This can be helpful in cases where you left the playback paused for an extended period. (Note that this does not impact starting playback via the Resume button on the details page of a media item or starting playback of an in-progress item directly from Continue Watching, for instance.)
This setting defaults to None
or you can choose various values between 1 and 30 seconds.
Skip Intro (Plex Pass Required)
For TV show content that has intro markers this option determines if it will automatically skip the intro or even show the button. Choices are:
- Disabled: Don’t show the Skip Intro button at all
- Manually: Display the Skip Intro button and the user must interact with it if they want to skip the intro (Default)
- Automatically: Skip the intro sequence without having to hit the button
Related Page: Skip TV Show Intros
Skip Ads in Recorded Content (Plex Pass Required)
If you have content recorded from a Plex DVR and have enabled the ability for Plex to try and detect the commercial breaks, then a skip commercial button will be displayed by default. This setting allows you to control how ads detected in Plex Media Sever library content can be skipped. It will not skip past ads in our free, ad-supported Live TV or On-Demand content. Choices are:
- Disabled: Don’t show the Skip Ads button at all
- Manually: Show the Skip Ads button and the user must interact with it if they want to skip the ad break (Default)
- Automatically: Skip Ads without having to hit the button
Related Page: Removing Commercials
Skip Credits (Plex Pass Required)
For content that has credit markers this option determines if it will automatically skip or even show the button. Choices are:
- Disabled: Don’t show the Skip Credits button at all
- Manually: Show the Skip Credits button and the user must interact with it if they want to skip the credits (Default)
- Automatically: Skip the credit sequence without having to hit the button.
Related Page: Credit Detection
Show Up Next (Plex Pass Required)
When a video finishes, there is an “Up Next” screen. This is the same screen that the auto play timer will appear on or when a movie finishes. Choices are:
- When Video Finishes
- During final credits: (Default) Video will minimize and continue playing in the Up Next screen. Return to full screen by selecting the minimized video.
Related Page: Credit Detection
Passout Protection (Plex Pass Required)
By default auto-playing content will not continue to auto-play the next item, if it’s been more than 2 hours since the user last interacted with the app. This is to help prevent content from continually playing if you fall asleep. Choices are:
- Never Prompt (Disable Passout Protection)
- After 1 hour
- After 2 hours (Default)
- After 3 hours
Auto Play Countdown Time (Plex Pass Required)
By default, the Up Next item has a countdown timer before the next item in the queue will auto play. You can adjust that to play immediately or select from different countdown presets. Choices are:
- Immediate
- 5 seconds
- 10 seconds (default for mobile players)
- 15 seconds (default for TV players)
- 30 seconds
- 60 seconds
Quality
Video Quality
Automatically Adjust Quality
Select to allow Plex to automatically adjust the quality of your video based on your connection speed.
Related Page: Automatically Adjust Quality when streaming
Limit Cellular Data
You can choose to have Plex automatically limit the video quality when playing video over a cellular network to reduce your data usage. This option is only visible for devices that have a cellular/mobile connection.
When enabled, you will be able to choose from several quality options.
Remote Streaming
Adjust the quality used when streaming content over the internet (either from a remote Plex Media Server or from an online source).
Choose the desired quality level. Higher qualities will require a faster network to support. If you set the quality too high, you will experience slow video playback and frequent pausing.
Play Smaller Videos at Original Quality
When enabled, the app will try playing the original video without conversion if it’s smaller than the quality set above. When possible, that will preserve the full quality, but may result in some pausing.
Home Streaming
This controls the quality used for local Wi-Fi streaming on a home network.
Use Recommended Settings
When recommended settings are enabled, the app will automatically try to play videos smaller than 20 Mbps at original quality. We recommend leaving this setting enabled.
Home Streaming Quality
If the recommended settings are disabled, you can manually choose the quality limit for home streaming.
Music Quality
Remote Streaming
Select the maximum streaming quality that is allowed for music/audio playback when streaming over the internet. This can be used to help reduce the bandwidth (or data) used when remotely streaming high-quality audio.
Sharing
Show Camera Roll Media
Allow other Plex apps to access photos and videos from your device’s local Camera Roll.
Advertise as player
Enable or disable the ability for other Plex apps to fling content to the device and control it remotely.
Related Page: Casting, Flinging, & Remote Control
Advertise as server
Allow other Plex apps to access content synced to your device via Mobile Sync.
Network discovery
Allow Plex to search for media servers and players on the local network.
Streaming Services
Choose the streaming services you use so Plex can tell when content on them is available as part of Discover
Related Page: Discover Source
Advanced
Warning: These advanced preferences should not need to be altered by most users.
Audio
Audio boost
Boost the audio volume when audio is being both transcoded and downmixed from surround sound to stereo.
Subtitles
Burn Subtitles
Determines if the server should burn in subtitles when converting video, depending on the subtitles format. Avoiding burning in subtitles improves server performance. Available choices:
- Always – When used, subtitles will always be burned into the video, regardless of the original source type of the subtitle.
- Automatic – (Default) Burn in subtitles when the subtitle is an image-based format (e.g. VOBSUB, PGS, SUB/IDX, etc.) as well as for complex ASS/SSA subtitles.
- Only image formats – Only burn in subtitles when the subtitle is an image-based format (e.g. VOBSUB, PGS, SUB/IDX, etc.)
Subtitle size
Allows you to select the font size for subtitles.
Player
Prefer Synced Content
When enabled, the app will play synced versions of your media (when available) instead of streaming from your Plex Media Server.
H264 Maximum Level
Specify the maximum H264 level that is playable by the device.
Audio Passthrough
The app will present video streams with multi-channel audio as-is.
Optional audio support
If the device reports that it supports them. You can enable AC3, EAC3, DTS and/or TrueHD
Use Android Media Player
Video playback will use the standard Media Player provided by the device.
Use External Player
Video playback will use an external player.
Note: When using an external player, the app can only allow Direct Play and watched status will not be tracked.
Manual connections
Enable manual connections
You can manually specify the IP address (IPv4) and port for a Plex Media Server to which you want to connect.
Tip!: So long as you Sign in to Your Plex Account in both the Android app and your Plex Media Server, the app will automatically have connection information for the server and you won’t need to use this.
Allow insecure connections
When enabled, it means that this device is allowed to make insecure connections to a Plex Media Server if secure connections fail. Available choices:
- Never – (Default) Never fall back to insecure connections without specific action from the user
- On same network as server – Allow fallback, but only when Plex Web App and the Plex Media Server are on the same network
- Always – Always allow fallback
Privacy
Share crash reports
Allow Plex to automatically report crashes to help us improve the application.
Account Visibility & Activity Sharing
Permissions your Profile and activities on Plex
View Privacy Policy
Links you to our website to view our privacy policy.
Related Page: Plex Privacy Policy
Delete Data On Plex
Delete some data that Plex stores.
Related Page: Sync Watch State and Ratings
Help & Support
Visit Plex Support
Takes you to the Plex support documents at https://support.plex.tv
Visit user forums
Takes you to the Plex user forums at https://forums.plex.tv
Licenses
View all required third party licenses of tools used in creation of app
Debugging
Network logging
When you enable network logging in the Android app, for the next 20 minutes all log messages from the app will be sent to a logging service.
Tip!: Only enable network logging if you’re also reporting details about an issue in our support forums. Network logs are not proactively reviewed.
Related Page: Android, Android TV, Fire TV Logs
Share Debugging Data
Using this option will open an email in your default email application. The message will have a zip file attached that will include detailed app logs (often up to several days’ worth) as well as local device state data that’s useful for investigation.
If you’re having an issue with the Android app, you can use this option to email the zip file to yourself and then attach the zip to a forum thread where you post details about the issue.
Wifi Address
The Wifi IP address of device, can be helpful when looking through logs
Server Port
When you enable network logging in the Android app. You can view the logs being sent by going to [WifiIP]:[ServerPort]/logging on the local wifi network