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brentgrab Author

Level 1

143 points

Video Playback on iOS 18 is Broken - Video size is small and timeline ends early when setting video to full frame or zooming in. Serious bug.

Video Playback on iOS 18 is asinine. I use video playback to show slow-motion video frame by frame to my students and the video can only be shown at like 3/5 of the screen size (just like Apple fouled up screenshot editing about a year ago)

If you try to view video in the full screen you can’t scrub through and see time stamps or play frame by frame sliding left to right. It’s absolutely ridiculous. 2 out of 3x the video timeline finishes fully right and I haven’t watched the full clip.

Here’s a video showing the issue how at the small default size I can see the entire timeline and play the full video from beginning to end, but when I go to full screen and/or zoom in or move the screen around the timeline doesn’t work and you can’t scroll through the full video!

Need the video to not condense in size on the screen and play the full height / width of the screen. Also not have the text of the location showing above the screen. Way too much clutter. The reduced size of the video for editing issue started with photos several updates ago and now Apple idiotically brought a terrible flaw from photos to videos as well. Ugh.

iPhone 14 Pro, iOS 18

Posted on Sep 18, 2024 9:17 PM

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MistyPlatinum

Level 1

38 points

Posted on Sep 21, 2024 6:05 PM

This same thing is driving me crazy. The UI is horrible and inaccessible and doesn’t help at all with displaying the video. Every time you want to pause or play a video taken vertically from your phone, it zooms you out and clutters the screen with all that extra stuff and a black border like you mentioned. Sorry I don’t have a solution. I’m just commenting to bring more attention to this post, in hopes Apple will do something and fix this in a future update.

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brentgrab Author

Level 1

143 points

Oct 16, 2024 1:06 PM in response to iPhonemansince2009

Very well said! Apple, are you listening? He left some good feedback. It seems very clear at this point with the hundreds of thumbs up and the tens of THOUSANDS of views this page has and thousands of views that my originally uploaded YT video has that there is a consensus that videos has been ruined in iOS18. I would’ve expected an immediate patch in 18.0.1 but there wasn’t. There sure as heck better be in 18.2 or I’m seriously going to have to make a hard decision about switching to android such as a Samsung or Google Pixel phone which does not have these issues.

Oct 18, 2024 10:45 PM in response to brentgrab

I also deeply suffer from these serious bugs of video playback. Hopefully Apple would fix them soon, then the new Photos app in iOS 18 can be improved from an irresponsible implementation to a stupid design.

brentgrab Author

Level 1

143 points

Oct 18, 2024 10:02 AM in response to maccalvin5

You nailed it. Thanks for chiming in. Please if you can post something similar in the forum of a feedback/bug report on Apple’s iPhone and Apple’s Photos section that would also help. I swear if this isn’t fixed by 18.2 I am probably going to switch to a Samsung or Google phone. This is incredulous. Not having proper functionality is inhibiting me from conducting my private instruction business properly on the field as I can’t show a full screen video frame by frame to my students. Nor can I zoom in to look at areas closer in the video because as you said it only plays a second of the video once zooming in. The update is laughable and it’s a major step backwards by Apple. We can only hope someone has some logic there still and the wherewithal to step up and rectify the situation.

Feedback - iPhone - Apple

Feedback - Photos - Apple

Oct 2, 2024 6:39 PM in response to brentgrab

i gave the same problem, however, a bigger problem for me is when I watch a video I just made or watch a video on YouTube or TikTok the video will stop. Press play again and it will stop almost immediately. IOS18 has ruined everything about video capabilities on the device and viewing videos.

ItsBacon

Level 1

18 points

Oct 13, 2024 12:42 AM in response to brentgrab

iOS.18.0.1

15 pro max

photo playback is still extremely glitchy. If you scroll. It freezes. Some times you can’t zoom in, or it’ll back out. Hitting edit, is like rolling the dice, you don’t know what issue will come from hitting that button, but something always does. For someone that is constantly working with videos and photos. This is such a headache.

Smallsey

Level 1

14 points

Oct 13, 2024 10:46 PM in response to brentgrab

Turns out you can still scrub, it just takes some effort.

if you tap “edit” (the one that looks like 3 sliders), the old scrubber comes up. You can even resize and zoom the video.

It’s not maybe ideal for instant viewing, but the feature is still in there.

Hope that helps.

Yer_Man

Level 10

163,602 points

Sep 28, 2024 4:13 AM in response to brentgrab

Folks: post this on the feedback channel were there is a much better chance of Apple seeing it. They do promise to read everything there.

Feedback - iPhone - Apple

Feedback - Camera - Apple

Yer_Man

Level 10

163,602 points

Oct 1, 2024 10:06 AM in response to brentgrab

This colossal sized foul up...

Yet - somehow - the world still turns...

dbdrwdn

Level 1

8 points

Oct 21, 2024 1:48 PM in response to brentgrab

I just watched the video on YouTube.

It describes exactly what is driving me and my kids crazy currently.

Sport is different, issue the same.

Yer_Man

Level 10

163,602 points

Sep 30, 2024 11:12 PM in response to brentgrab

Always love the way folks on here demand that people be fired, lose their livelihoods and possibly send their families into poverty because of what? Added points for invoking the departed Mr. Jobs, and the absolute certainty that you, who never met him, would know what he wanted.

Yer_Man

Level 10

163,602 points

Oct 8, 2024 10:43 PM in response to binarygiant

but listen to what people are trying to communicate

I can hear what people are saying clear as a bell, but what's the point of that? I don't work for Apple, I'm just a user like yourself and the best way to communicate with Apple is via the Feedback mechanism. As I said earlier in this thread Apple do promise to read everything posted there, they don't promise to read anything here.

gevorgmg

Level 1

8 points

Sep 28, 2024 2:47 AM in response to brentgrab

the same issue

Yer_Man

Level 10

163,602 points

Sep 28, 2024 1:03 PM in response to brentgrab

You're all wasting your energy. Post to the feedback channels as detailed above.

Oct 1, 2024 5:20 PM in response to brentgrab

since installing ios18 YouTube background play is pausing and stopping everytime I wake the phone up or turn off screen. also CarPlay gets disconnected randomly.

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Oct 7, 2024 9:46 PM in response to brentgrab

Are you presenting on an Apple TV? If yes rotate your phone to landscape mode.

please reach out if you have more questions! 😀

Video Playback on iOS 18 is Broken - Video size is small and timeline ends early when setting video to full frame or zooming in. Serious bug.