
He's been blogging online since 2008 at places like Tom's Guide, 9to5Mac, and iDownloadBlog though his journalism experience spans 20+ years.īack in the 1990s when the web was born, Chris studied Information Science specializing in Expert Systems and Management Information Systems. He also enjoys covering Windows, Android, Entertainment, Streaming, and popular devices and apps. 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. He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer.A Plex employee confirmed on Reddit that the feature only works with Plex's free on-demand movies and TV shows with unskippable ads. Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go.

Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more.
