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Plex has not said whether it might implement that functionality down the road. The Plex app is a free download for the iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV from the Apple App Store.Ĭhristian joined MakeUseOf in 2021 as a technical writer predominantly focused on Apple's platforms. Related: Check Out These Featured Plex Channels and Plugins In other words, your own media content that you can access from anywhere using Plex Media Server won't show up in Up Next nor can you request it through Siri. 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 of reasons.

The same person added that Plex at this stage cannot enable user-hosted content in the TV app due to technical hurdles. Personal content, live TV, and other Plex features do not support this integration. A Plex employee confirmed on Reddit that the feature only works with Plex's free on-demand movies and TV shows with unskippable ads.

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