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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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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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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.

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