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YouTube update breaks fullscreen on my Android 9 phone (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by Asidonhopo@lemmy.world to c/softwaregore@lemmy.world
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Breaking things that worked flawlessly for years, nice. Hopefully fixed soon. It's not just me is it?

Screen rotates when I click the fullscreen button but video doesn't fill the screen, rotates back to vertical after a second. I was able to get it to work properly by turning on rotate screen in the pull down menu and then turning the phone. It still remained in the squashed format shown above but when I pull the video down and then tap on the minimized video it pops out into full screen finally. So it's still usable but the 5 step fix is pretty frustrating.

No I haven't filed a bug report, youtube is a grownup company and do it's own rudimentary beta testing. Sad to see unforced errors like this more and more common in longstanding industry standard apps.

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[-] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

I've had this issue for a while now and it definitely has something to do with shorts, like it's forcing vertical rendering somehow. I notice it's something like a 50% chance that when I switch from shorts to watching normal videos that I will experience this bug. I've always just force stopped the app and picked whatever video I was watching back out of history. It is really annoying though.

[-] Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I should have updated but another update of the YT app a day or two ago fixed the issue for me, someone else must have made a report. Still weird that they would push updates that have very basic app breaking bugs like that in them.

[-] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

Ah yeah I use a modded/patched version of the app (revanced) which is annoying to update so I've just been living with it lol

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