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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 22, 2024 3:52 PM

Here’s a YT video I made demonstrating the exact issue. Only posted a day ago and it has over 1,000 views and tons of comments. I’m happy other people are speaking out about how bad this iOS 18 update ruined Apple Photos and video playback and video usability. Apple please for the love of God fix this urgently. Whoever spearheaded the rollout should seriously be fired. Whoever approved it should also be fired!


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Please fix Apple Photos and iPhone videos urgently! They also should fix the editing / annotation of images. Taking a screenshot makes it tiny on the screen so if you you try to draw or type on it it’s the same nonsense of a tiny screen area. Editing any photo to draw or type on it shrinks the image on the screen. It should not be this way. Keep both images / photos and videos full screen. This is not an issue in any other app. It’s so bad it makes me wonder what the heck Apple is doing and how these people who are supposedly very bright tech wizards are employed there.

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Oct 8, 2024 10:43 PM in response to binarygiant

but listen to what people are trying to communicate


I can hear what people are saying clear as a bell, but what's the point of that? I don't work for Apple, I'm just a user like yourself and the best way to communicate with Apple is via the Feedback mechanism. As I said earlier in this thread Apple do promise to read everything posted there, they don't promise to read anything here.

Oct 25, 2024 8:14 AM in response to 305Pal

305Pal wrote:

We also did the feedback. That was a waste, as again, no Apple response or help. Apple does not appear to be interested or acknowledge the issue.

Apple is very clear on the Feedback page that they don't respond to feedback so I'm not sure why you were expecting they would.

Don't see Apple jumping on this post, nor the post we started reference videos not transferring to computer with any properties nor thumbnail image.

This is a user-to-user forum. Apple employee's primary role is to make sure we all obey the rules. Their posting participation is limited to providing resources for health or safety issue. So, no, you will not see responses from them here on this issue.

Nov 1, 2024 12:03 PM in response to Yer_Man

We are... Daily. That is getting no where, and seems they are ignoring all feedback. >>>> 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.

Nov 1, 2024 12:20 PM in response to brentgrab

UPDATE: in iOS 18.1 I was unable to play any videos for about 2 hours after the update. I guess it needed time to propogate. I was getting a circle progress loading bar most of the time or nothing and it would freeze and never play. After a couple of hours of waiting I’m able to play videos now. It does appear the bug of zooming in and scrolling and only being able to see 1 second of the video is fixed but it is still thet wretched scroll bar / scrubber and the small window. 2 positive updates in Photos are that you can finally drag your albums up an down to reorder them (albeit the functionality id a bit finnicky), and with their new AI you can type a description of photos/videos in Search and it retrieves items that match that query. This is very good. However the issue with video playback, small window, terrible scroll bar / scrubber, etc still exists, so please keep sending feedback to Apple on the links mentioned several times. Do it for both iPhone and for the Photos app. Search Apple feedback iPhone and Apple feedback photos and you’ll find the links on google.

Nov 1, 2024 12:54 PM in response to brentgrab

Neither is the following issue fixed nor corrected............... iPhone 14 .mov videos transferred to Windows computer no longer have a thumbnail image or data. But they play. This occurred after late September. All .mov videos prior to early Oct. 9th have data and thumbnail images. This is occurring on our two iPhone 14's, and multiple Windows 10 computers. We have changed nothing, including the process of transferring the videos from the iPhone to the Windows computer. The last video with data, and with a thumbnail is 09/26. The first video in Oct 9th, on to present day, has no thumbnail, not data (length, frame, etc.). I spoke with Apple support, did screen shots, and ended up with no answer or solution.

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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