When playing a movie/show on the Apple TV and the information is relayed to the iPhone Lock Screen controls, the image displayed is the background art. The metadata image is a wide rectangle which then gets resized into a square and ends up relaying very little information at all. In contrast, the P…

The 8.3.8 update has a few more changes and poster artwork should now appear in Control Center in all cases. :slight_smile: [image] Infuse 8.3.8 now available Releases Infuse 8.3.8 is now available! raising_hands FIXED Fixed disappearing header bar buttons …

Can we please improve the artwork on the iPhone lock screen, which is square and of the lowest quality possible? I reported this issue more than a year ago, and there has been no update from the support team.

@james Did this ever get looked in to? I noticed today that the Apple TV app shows the poster for what’s playing and it looks much better.

I don’t think this being even looked at, I opened a ticket and still the same square low-quality artwork shows on the lock screen.

[image] dany20mh: I don’t think this being even looked at, With only one like on the first post it doesn’t seem to be a much wanted feature. :man_shrugging:

But why has this to be an added feature? Most of the video apps such as Netflix, Plex, etc., show the artwork in rectangular format with high quality, and it’s just Infuse that shows some random image in square format.

Agreed, it seems like this would be a relatively simple fix rather than a big change. For Plex users, and presumably wherever else the metadata has been matched, the poster images are already there ready to be used.

[image] Eliottjames: Agreed Don’t forget that you need to click the like button on the first post in this thread to show your support for this suggestion! :wink:

Done! If the others watching this thread could also then hopefully we can get this looked at :slightly_smiling_face:

Infuse 8.3.7 now uses poster artwork on the lock screen. :slight_smile: [image] Infuse 8.3.7 now available Releases Infuse 8.3.7 is now available! flexed_biceps NEW Search for titles when opening deep linked items that are not present in the Library Use pos…

Amazing! Thanks @james :slightly_smiling_face:

Use poster image for lock screen artwork

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The 8.3.8 update has a few more changes and poster artwork should now appear in Control Center in all cases.

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