Version 1.2 is mostly bug fixes.

PLAYBACK

Some files played sound with a black screen. Apple requires HEVC video in an .mp4 to carry one particular tag, and a great many x265 releases use the other legal one. Apple's player then plays the audio and silently never draws a picture, with no error of any kind. Those files now open in the other engine, which does not care about the tag.

Pause, then play, no longer jumps backwards. If you had skipped an intro or scrubbed anywhere, pressing play after a pause could throw you back to that spot.

Audio stays on the language you picked. It used to fall back to the file default after a long pause, and again on the next episode of a series, while the menu still showed your choice.

The preferred subtitle language in Settings now decides which embedded track a file opens on.

Scrub previews on iPhone, iPad and Mac for files your server has not processed, decoded on the device while you scrub. The preview also stays while you look at it instead of vanishing on its own.

The timeline runs the full width of the screen or window.

A MENU ON EVERYTHING

Hold the centre button on the Apple TV, long tap on iPhone and iPad, right click on the Mac, on any film, episode or series, anywhere one is shown. It offers Information, Resume, Play from Beginning, Go to Series, Mark as Watched, Mark as Not Watched, Remove from Continue Watching, Add to List and Favourite.

Mark as Not Watched is always there, which matters when your server thinks you finished something you did not.

Remove from Continue Watching clears the resume position without marking anything watched. Those are different statements and only the second one existed before.

READABILITY AND REACH

Skip Intro, Skip Credits and Next Episode were white text on a white button. They are legible now.

Now Playing is reachable again as a tab on the Apple TV, and opening it no longer strands you there.

Watch lists count what you have actually seen. A series with 39 episodes and 3 watched used to read 0 of 36.

Lyrics follow word by word where your file carries the timing, and grow with the panel on the Mac.

WHEN SOMETHING GOES WRONG

Settings, About, Troubleshooting prepares a redacted log you can send. An Apple TV can hand it over as QR codes or numbered pages, so there is no need to photograph a screen.

Server errors name their status instead of reading JellyfinAPIError error 0. Quick Connect asks your server whether it is switched on and reports the real reason.

The app finally tells your server which build it is, so a device in your dashboard stops reporting 1.0.0 forever.

New in this version

Offline downloads. Download films and episodes to the device and watch them with the server switched off. A downloads screen shows what you have, what is still arriving and how much space it takes, and the episodes of a series stay together under one heading.

Settings rebuilt. Everything is grouped into Server and Profiles, Playback and Subtitles, Appearance, Downloads and Storage, Services, and About, with a search field across all of it.

Sign in to a different server straight from the login screen.

Fixed

The search field on iPhone takes typing again.

The filter field inside a library now searches the whole library instead of coming back empty.

An embedded subtitle no longer comes up oversized with a size control that does nothing, on large files.

Downloading a subtitle while a film is playing no longer breaks the subtitles that were already in the file.

Disconnect and Delete All Downloads ask for confirmation again.

The switches for Kids Mode and for the library filters can be tapped anywhere on their row, not only on the switch itself.

VoiceOver reads the library tiles and the scrobble switches properly.

The open-source license notices for VLCKit are in the app.

The picture staying frozen after a long pause on Apple TV is fixed. The sound came back and the picture stayed on the frame you paused on until you left the film and came back in. It is fixed in the code and proven in testing, and not yet confirmed on a real television, so if you still see it after this update, write to [email protected] and say which film.

A library no longer stops at the first hundred titles, whether you scroll slowly or hold the remote down. Confirmed by the person who reported it, on his Apple TV.

Library search now asks the server, so a title beyond the pages already loaded is found. If a page fails to load, the app retries and then offers Try Again instead of ending in silence.

The Music and Live TV tabs hide themselves on a server that has neither. A server that has them sees no change.

Music playlists your server leaves unlabelled are no longer hidden from the Music tab.