I love how people are saying "i dont even use the app that way", no one cares if you use it that way or not, it shouldn't be something just taken away from those who do use it that way, every app or website is better either in iPhone or droid during landscape, its just natural. Especially i you want to leave a comment or view photos...
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iPhone Screen won't rotate in new Facebook app (merged)
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I'm sure this has been fed back to Apple who hopefully will see that their customer base wants this and introduce the rotation feature in the next iOS.
Especially annoying when watching a video! You're stuck in portrait even for widescreen videos.
I hate it too, I like fullscreen for videos, but I use portrait for everything else! Landscape sucks for texting and other uses.
If you're talking about Facebook screen rotation on an iPhone... it is 100% essential when going live. The screen needs to rotate to landscape BEFORE tapping the "go live" button in order to match the camera shooting in landscape... or the video displays sideways, which it most certainly does for me. So, it's a phenomenal suck job that this is happening. I've heard rumors that the feature works on the iPhone Plusses. Don't know for sure. I only have a regular iPhone 8. Oddly, if you tap "go live" first, and then rotate the phone, the live video will display with the correct orientation, however, what you see in the camera's viewfinder is so stretched and distorted, you can't tell what your shooting frame is. Image of that is attached here...
