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.

They ruined Photos and Videos. Playing a video is so tedious and unintuitive now. It opens in a small window and you can’t play a video frame by frame or by dragging it slowly while in full screen. The scroll bar is vague and doesn’t give insight into what time or duration of the video you’re at and there is no thumbnail preview at the bottom. All in all iOS 18 is a downgrade. Virtually everything they did was backwards and makes the UX cringeworthy, time consuming, and limiting. I really hope someone is listening and fixes this in 18.2.

I totally DEPEND on the ability to scrub or scroll through videos while zoomed in and moving very slowly to be able to see my son’s football plays. I guess Apple removed this feature, WHY?!?! How do I get it back???

The new videoplayer in photo app is bull sh*t! Looks like android in 2010. This app is impossible to use. All controls have become extremely inconveient! Apple please bring back the old one!

I tried to use my phone to replay a work conference seminar to take notes and was surprised to see the video interface was totally changed on my work phone. Brentgrab's youtube video exactly demonstrates the problems with the video playback in iOS 18 in the Photos app. The scrubber bar was eliminated; it should return because it is much more intuitive to see where to scrub visually rather than on a blank bar. The viewing screen is by default zoomed out with useless buttons on the sides. If you make the video full screen, you lose the ability to navigate through the video at all. If you zoom into the video and then try to play it again, it only plays the very beginning of the video. The functionality of this part of the OS is totally broken and needs to be restored to the functionality available in the most recent version of iOS 17 as soon as possible.

I always love it when they say you are the only one calling in about an issue.

Even if you were, what is their point when they say that?

I think ANYONE who ever says that to a customer should be immediately fired.

Insulting a person should NOT be part of the customer's experience.

We pay thousands of dollars over the years to purchase their products.

I hate this new interface so much. I liked being able to see my albums, it was much easier to find what I needed. Now it feels like a needle in a haystack. Screenshots aren’t full screen anymore, the edit button took me a while to find and realize it was the edit button. Really feels like a step backwards. I would switch back to iOS 17 if I could merely because I hate the new photos app so much. I only downloaded 18 in order to have access to the satellite texting in case I needed it due to hurricane Milton devastating Florida. PLEASE bring back the old interface for ios18. I post photos and videos online as a source of income, and this new update has made it SO hard to find and organize what I need.

This update is corrupting my footage. After updating my phone I can’t film videos for more than a couple minutes without the footage corrupting . It just freezes and I can’t play it back. I even tried importing it to i movie nothing works. The new photos is terrible I wish I never updated.

it was the best video player. just for the ability to do fine scrubbing no matter how long the video was. extremely useful if you needed to do frame by frame analysis (for sports for example, and i’m sure there are countless other use cases). now they’ve replaced with the same sh*tty progress bar that’s seen everywhere. 😡

This is an annoying problem that renders video playback manipulation useless, nothing but bad implementation of bad ideas. I’m fed up of these awful changes that breaks the basic usability of the Iphone. This was my first and will be my last Iphone, I’m moving on.