¶ November 13, 2026 - HexOS Anywhere, Sign in with TrueNAS, picture previews, and more
Here's what shipped since our last update.
Today, HexOS Anywhere is live. Open your apps from anywhere: Jellyfin on your phone from a hotel, or the family photos on your parents' TV. There's no port forwarding, no VPN app on anyone's device, and your home IP address is never shown. Read the full story in our launch post.
- Every app gets its own address. Open an installed app, go to its Anywhere tab, and turn it on. HexOS gives the app a secure web address you can open from any device, or send to friends and family.
- You decide who gets in. Visitors enter your server's password or six-digit PIN before they reach an app. Phone apps, TVs and consoles show up in a device list for you to approve. Five wrong tries locks a device out for 15 minutes.
- Block trouble before it reaches your server. In Settings > Anywhere, you can allow only the countries you connect from and block addresses you don't trust. Both are enforced at the HexOS relay, so a blocked visitor never touches your server.
- Bring your own domain. Already own a domain? The Custom domain tab walks you through the one DNS record it needs, and HexOS handles the certificates.
- Encrypted end to end. Traffic passes through the relay still encrypted, and is only decrypted when it arrives at your server.
- Immich phone apps work too. The Immich app on your phone now shows up as a device you can approve, and keeps working after you approve it.
- Fast enough to stream. Each server gets up to 10 Mbps, enough for a 1080p stream with room to spare.
HexOS Anywhere is an optional add-on for HexOS Lifetime: $29 a year per server. To add it, click Buy in Settings > Anywhere, or click Add Anywhere next to your server on your account page. If you ever stop paying for it, HexOS pauses your addresses instead of removing them. Your addresses, PIN, rules and approved devices are all waiting for you when Anywhere comes back. Learn more in the HexOS Anywhere guide.
Local UI launched in April and made it so the entire interface was running inside your server (aside from initial setup or when your apps pool is down). But authentication still required our hosted platform to connect and manage your system. With today's update, you now have the option to sign in with your local truenas_admin account, giving you full admin control of your server, even when deck.hexos.com is unavailable (due to maintenance or your local Internet connection down).
- Sign in with your truenas_admin account. On your server's own Command Deck, the one you open on your home network, the sign-in page now offers Sign in with HexOS or Sign in with TrueNAS. Signing in with TrueNAS gives you the same Command Deck you're used to: storage, folders, apps, VMs, backups and settings. Only your HexOS account pages, like plans and adding a server, need a HexOS sign-in.
- Keep managing your server when the internet is down. If your internet drops, or HexOS Cloud is down for maintenance, your server keeps running and the Command Deck says so. Pools, folders, permissions, users, installed apps, VMs and drive tests all keep working. Things that need HexOS Cloud, like installing new apps, say so and come back on their own.
- Open HexOS from TrueNAS. The HexOS app in the TrueNAS Apps screen now has a HexOS button that takes you straight to your server's Command Deck.
- Signed in with the wrong account? The sign-in page now names the account and offers Sign in with a different HexOS account or Sign in with TrueNAS.
- You're in control. Don't want TrueNAS sign-in? Turn off the TrueNAS sign-in switch in Advanced settings.
One of our most requested features is here. The file browser now shows thumbnails and full previews of your pictures.
- See your photos, not a grid of icons. Open a folder of pictures and HexOS offers to turn on Previews and thumbnails. Once it's on, every picture shows a thumbnail.
- Flip through a folder. Select a picture and click the eye icon to preview it, then step through the rest of the folder's pictures.
- Nothing extra runs on your server. Your computer, phone or tablet makes the thumbnails with its own browser. Your server just keeps a copy so every device can see them. Your original pictures are never changed.
- Uses only a little space. Each pool keeps at most 1% of its space for thumbnails, up to 10 GB, and makes room by clearing the oldest. You can turn previews off or clear them any time in Settings > Preferences > File browser.
- Previews and thumbnails need TrueNAS 25.10. Video thumbnails aren't supported yet.
¶ A refreshed Command Deck
We went through the Command Deck page by page to make every screen look and work the same way.
- One look everywhere. Settings, Storage, Folders, Backups, Sync, VMs and your account pages now share the same page titles, cards and spacing as Apps.
- Tabs for busy panels. When a folder, pool or backup has a lot to show, its summary stays at the top and the rest moves onto tabs. A tab with a problem on it shows a warning mark.
- A new bell. The bell now has two tabs. Jobs shows work in progress with live progress. Notifications keeps anything that needs you pinned at the top. Dismiss all now only clears older messages, so a problem that still needs you stays put.
- One Notifications page. All your past messages now live in one place, grouped by day, with All, Unread and Dismissed filters.
- A tidier dashboard. Each dashboard section has a menu to hide it. A new server starts with a single welcome message instead of every announcement we've ever posted.
- A rebuilt Sync page, laid out like Backups, with its own icon in the menu.
- Steadier on phones. The header and bottom bar now stay put while you scroll, and swiping down on a row of cards scrolls the page.
- Setup actions moved to Customize. An app's setup actions, like Jellyfin's Pre-configure Jellyfin, now live on its Customize tab. The Connections tab only lists links to other apps. A setup action that already ran during install now offers Re-run.
- Locked folders are named up front. If an app uses a folder that's locked, HexOS now tells you which folder before it installs, starts or updates the app.
- The Update all confirmation now shows each app's icon.
- In some cases, Nextcloud's Finish setting up failed after about 5 minutes and then said it was already running. Long setup steps now get the time they need.
- In some cases, restore points failed to save before an app updated, for apps like Jellyfin, Immich and Plex. These apps now get their restore points.
- Downloads that share space with your library. On TrueNAS 25.10, when Radarr, Sonarr or Lidarr imports a download, the copy usually shares its space with the original. The pool card now counts shared files once, so your pool no longer looks fuller than it is. The pool's Usage card shows how much space shared copies save.
- Reclaim space from older copies. Files imported before this worked may still take up space twice. The Downloads folder has a new Shared copies card. Click Check Downloads, then Free up to make each pair share its space. Your library files are never changed.
- The Radarr, Sonarr and Lidarr pages now tell you when imports can't share space with Downloads, for example when one of the folders is encrypted.
- Stop a storage health check. You can now stop a health check that's running. In some cases, a check that started while the pool was already scanning stayed stuck at the same percentage. It now finishes on its own.
- Every step of the create and edit folder dialog now has a short description.
- HexOS now checks that a source is ready to send files before it creates any folders. If it isn't, HexOS suggests using a network share instead.
- The Location step asks what each folder will hold, with a suggestion based on its files.
- Files that couldn't be copied are now listed when the bring over finishes.
- The VMs page has a new Recently added row.
- Click Connect on a running VM to open its console or download its remote desktop file.
¶ Setup and compatibility
- In some cases, reinstalling TrueNAS a second time stopped setup at Installing HexOS Local. Your server is now recognized after every reinstall.
- In some cases, clicking Try again during setup showed an error about VM shared folders. Setup now waits for an update that's already running.
- Folder Sync now works on TrueNAS 25.10.8. Folder names with spaces are now excluded from copies correctly.
NOTE: These updates apply automatically. You may need to clear your cache.