While our apps work to give you a great default Home screen, everyone’s needs can be different—and can even vary from device to device for the same person.

That’s where the ability to customize things comes in. Our mobile apps allow you to easily choose what appears on your Home screen, which sources of media are available, and how to arrange the available sources.

Tip!: Customizations are associated with the particular app install. If you delete and reinstall Plex on your phone, the customizations would be lost. Similarly, if you customize the app on your iPhone, it does not get mirrored on your iPad.

Related Page: Navigating the Mobile Apps

Edit the Home Screen

Editing Home Screen Rows is no longer available as of April 22, 2021 they will follow the order of pinned libraries based on the server owners choices in their server settings. See Manage Recommendations

Reset Customization

If you would like to revert all changes that have been made to your Home screen, you can do so using Reset All Customizations. This option can be found by selecting the ... option in the top right corner of the Home Screen, and selecting Reset All Customizations. 

Note: Using this option will reset all Home screen and sidebar customization changes made in the app. If you have access to multiple Plex Media Servers, you will then be prompted to select a preferred server as well.

Edit the Navigation Sidebar

From the navigation sidebar, you’ll be able to choose which source to view, if you have access to more than one. For instance, you might have your own library of photos as well one shared with you by a friend or family member or maybe you have multiple TV libraries of your own. To choose which source you wish to view/access, you simply choose from the navigation sidebar if the item has been pinned to your sidebar (if the source has not been pinned, it can be found by selecting more from the sidebar). By default, they’ll be arranged with sources from your preferred server listed first followed by other sources located in the More section.

Reorder Navigation Sidebar

Most people will only have one or two sources available for any particular media type, but some people might have several. In that case, you may wish to customize the order in which they’re displayed—so that your favorite or most commonly-used one is at the top, for instance.

The items listed in the navigation sidebar can be reordered or unpinned by highlighting the Edit option.

Select a source and you can then move it up or down in the list, or unpin it to order things as desired.

You can also choose the More entry to view additional items or to pin them to the sidebar. Using the Edit option, you can pin new items to appear in the main navigation sidebar area (By default, new items will be placed at the end of the list).