We are pleased to announce that Jellyfin for iOS 1.7.0 has been submitted to the App Store! 🚀
⏬️ Featuring download support!

Direct downloads for all media types

Files app integration

Share downloads to other apps

Transcoded downloads now in alpha

Read the blog post to learn more about the changes in this release.
https://jellyfin.org/posts/ios-v1.7.0

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[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It does work for movies if they're in the same directory and have the same name before a -.

For shows there's sadly now way iirc.

E.g. Movie Name (2025) - 1080p x264.mkv and Movie Name (2025) - UHD HEVC.mkv would make Jellyfin show a video selection in the same way they do for audio currently.

Jellyfin in general requires proper naming for media to get detected, which is not problem with automation but not that great for a collection grown over time.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

if they're in the same directory and have the same name before a -.

Okay yeah, I meant out of the box as in without the need to modify my entire library to accommodate Jellyfin's particular naming scheme.