Settings for the Apple TV app can be accessed from the User Menu (accessed by selecting your avatar image) located at the top of the the Navigation Side Bar.

Experience

Automatically Sign In

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.

Related Page: Plex Home

Top Shelf

You can choose if you would like to allow Plex to display items on the Top Shelf of your Apple TV home screen.

Remember selected tab

Select this option to have the app remember which tab you last selected for each source (ie. Recommended, Library, Collections, etc.)

Theme Music

Choose if you would like the Theme Music played while browsing TV Shows.

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.

Streaming Services

Select your steaming services.

Appearance

Theme

Color theme for app

App Icon

Change the home screen app ic0n

Content Layout

Modern or classic layout

App Background

Use focused media artwork colors for background

Details Background

Use media artwork colors, dimmed are or none for background

Video Quality

Auto Adjust Quality

Let connection test between server and this player be used to set quality

Home Streaming

This sets the quality to use when streaming content on your local network. In most cases, you can set this to a high value (such as “Maximum”). Higher settings produce better video quality but require more network bandwidth.

Internet Streaming

You can set the quality to use when streaming content from a remote Plex Media Server. The quality you can reliably use is typically limited by either your download bandwidth or the upload bandwidth from the source Plex Media Server.

Related Page: Why is my video stream buffering?

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.

Player Experience

Auto Play

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.

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

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 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

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

Audio Quality

Internet 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.

Remote Control

Advertise as Player

Enable or disable the ability for other Plex apps to fling content to this device and control it remotely.

Related Page: Plex Companion

Advanced

Allow Direct Play

When playing media that is natively compatible, the Allow Direct Play toggle allows the app to directly play it without any conversion.

Audio Boost

Boost the audio volume when audio is being both transcoded and downmixed from surround sound to stereo.

Display Type

You can select the type of TV you’re using to play your media.

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.)

Override Subtitles Styles

When a style is specified in a subtitle, that style is used.

Subtitles Size

The Subtitle Size setting controls which preset size subtitles are rendered at: Tiny, Small, Normal, Large, and Huge.

Privacy

Send Crash Reports

Allow Plex to automatically report crashes to help us improve the application.

Debugging

Verbose Logging

When enabled it will set the app to log additional information. You should generally only enable this option if specifically requested to do so for troubleshooting.

Enable Log Download

Enable remote logging for the next 20 minutes if the App is connected to your Plex account.

Related Page: Apple TV Logs

About

Acknowledgements

Information about third-party packages used in the app.

Version

The version of Plex that is running.

View Privacy Policy

Links you to our website to view our privacy policy.

Related Page: Plex Privacy Policy

View Terms of Service

View Plex’s Terms of Service.

AdChoices

View information about your “AdChoices”.

Account

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.