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.

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.

Apple please fix this! Watch the video attached in this thread. It explains it perfectly. We need to be able to zoom into the video while still being able to scrub through the ENTIRE video. I've tried very hard and still can't think of a single possible reason why you would only want to see the first few frames of a video when zooming in. Please fix this ASAP.

Same thing is happening to me and it’s making my photos app unusable!! Once again Apple attempting to fix a problem that didn’t exist and just ends making everything worse. I wish I never updated to this new POS software.

This is so upsetting and I feel I upgraded to iPhone 16 pro and iOS 18 for nothing and only to get a much worse experience! I take screenshots from videos usually and once I have I can no longer scrub forward or back and have to quit the video and come into it again!! Absolutely livid that Apple make things so much worse and not better over time! This makes no sense!

TERRIBLE UI WHEN SCROLLING THROUGH YOUR VIDEO!! Apple you F this one up BADLY!!

Please Apple, bring back the timeline. It is really difficult for us to slow down videos with this new way. The old timeline was so convenient, i don’t understand why it needed to be changed.

Happy to see it’s not just my phone. Have been going crazy all week trying to figure out what’s wrong and that YouTube video explains exactly what is happening to me. It’s impossible to watch videos in full screen frame by frame. There is no reason videos should open in a tiny screen. Nothing was wrong with video before; why did they find a reason to change it and make it worse? 😡

I take slow mo videos of myself when I go to the Driving Range so I can watch my swing. I have a video that won’t play at all when I try to fast forward. It freezes and then my photos won’t work. When I edit the video the timestamp scroller won’t update the frame so I can’t make edits at all because I have no idea what’s happening in the video. I also can’t shorten it to as a new video, I get an error message whenever I try

The fact that this made it to production is purely idiotic. The UI and UX is horrible

The fact that there is this much feedback across so many users and not patches have been put out should be fireable imo

I’ve never seen such an obvious and pronounced regression from an “update” for anything in my entire life

I hate this upgrade for the Photos app too.

Not sure if it fully solves the issue, but if you pinch out slightly with 2 fingers, the video display size will increase to cover the whole screen. Most of the time it seems to still allow playback of the whole video while “zoomed in”. Certainly taking some getting used to. I prefer how it was before and really dislike the new scrubbing.

I really love the scrubber feature and it's very useful for me: I some times record very long (e.g. 30+ min ) videos of me doing sports, then later trying to cut out shorter ones to pose on social media. In iOS18 it's very very hard to control / fast forward/backward during the playback.