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.

I don’t have a solution but just wanted to add my voice here so maybe Apple will fix this.

the entire photos UI is worse and I’d like to regress back to iOS 17

I film a lot of video of my workouts and this is just completely not helpful.

I can’t believe more people aren’t talking about the IOS 18 video issues. It almost seems as if Apple is silencing commentators in the forum. Anyway it seems in 18.2 SOME issues have been fixed but there still is not a scrubber at the bottom and also if you zoom into videos and try to play them frame by frame it sometimes only plays approximately 1 second of the video or freezes. It’s been buggy since 18.0. Can Apple simply revert back to 17.0+ or dismantle their Apple Photos division and replace them with more logical employees who don’t mess things up for the sake of changing just to change?

This is a genuinely awful upgrade to the Photos app, please please please revert it.

It’s honestly the first change I’ve complained about and one that would mean I’d consider an android when upgrading, after 15 years of having an iPhone.

JohnnyApple2 wrote:

The new way of viewing videos in the photos app is terrible. Apple, please fix it or revert it back to how it was before. I am seriously considering switching to an Android device because of this problem; it’s that debilitating for everyday use of my iPhone :(

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Wkeae wrote:

Apple, this was one of the features I use often . To be able to view video frame by frame and take a screenshot of the scene I wanted , but of course after zooming in , I would have to exit completely and open the movie again to be able to go to the shot I want ! If I miss it and the shot ends up being one or two frames on either side , I’d have to start over !

I hate it , hate it , I hate enough that I am thinking of doing a switch to another system android maybe !!!

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This colossal sized foul up...

Yet - somehow - the world still turns...

IOS18 Video size is small in gallery and video scrubbing is broken👀

Totally unnecessary UI change, Apple reverse back or make it better, not like this🤦🏻‍♂️

Wish they would revert it all back before 18. Same issues and Apple never send to listen to its users. I think its time to go to Android

Not the only problems APPLE created with ios18. Has everyone noticed not a peep from APPLE? No APPLE help. No APPLE support. No APPLE acknowledgement of the many issues. Whay should any of us stay with APPLE? >> iPhone 14 ios 18 videos no longer transfer with properties nor thumbnail. We have hundreds of iPhone videos, all with properties and thumbnails. But starting around late Sept and early Oct. all videos transferred to our various computers W10/11, no longer have properties nor thumbnail images. They do all play however. We have hundreds of iPhone videos transferred to our computers over many years. All have properties and thumbnail images. Now, the videos have neither. Wondering if the last ios 18 updates did something to videos.

This is such a frustration. When will it be resolved?

It’s clearly a known issue as googles so easily…

This is complete nonsense. Apple, bring back precision video skimming and magnetic timeline, please. It was a heart of the Photos app.

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.