Coming in Hot: Watch Together & Chill | Plex
You’re away at college and you have friends at a different school. There’s a hankering for a good old-fashioned “family movie night”, but your relatives are thousands of miles apart. Or, you know, maybe you’re stuck inside your house during a global pandemic (wait, do those really happen??) and everyone else is stuck in their own homes, too. In any case, you’d love to watch something together, but you’re physically separated from those with which you want to watch. You could try the old “Okay, everyone hit Play at the end of the countdown” trick, but everyone knows that doesn’t work well.
So, what’s one to do when physically separated from others like this? You use Plex’s “Watch Together” feature, of course! Get a group of people together (virtually) and then play content in a synchronized manner.
The Watch Together feature works with our free “Movies & TV” streaming service as well as personal media you might have in a Plex Media Server. Watching content (together) is available free, during the preview period.
Related Page: Frequently Asked Questions – Watch Together
Watch Together is supported in the following player/client apps. Generally speaking, everyone using the feature together will need to have the newest release of their particular app. The minimum requirements may also increase over time, as fixes and improvements are made in the apps.
The watch together feature can be accessed by selecting the
(More) button on the details/preplay screen for an item, and selecting