iPhone Apps on iPadOS 15 Now Run in Landscape

[Macalway]

Look at all the sarcasm. Pretty funny. Happy campers!

 

[Tech198]

I'd rather use the tool for the job..... on iPad, I'd have to zoom in anyway.

 

[Piplodocus]

Yay! I can now finally log all my delicious, juicy and rare craft beers in Untappd, without having to be so drunk that I'm lying horizontally on the floor. 🍻🍺🙃

 

[Branaghan]

It's embarrassing that Instagram still does not have a native iPad app

Even more embarassing is that idiots from Apple never forced all apps to run in landscape mode. If you use a tablet stand and anything attached this way then you can‘t keep moving the device every time you run portrait apps.

 

[_Spinn_]

With all that extra space on either side it should be possible to let users run phone apps side by side.

 

[4487549]

Such innovation. 🙄 Next, years later, in iPadOS 18, the OS will automatically recognize when it's a smaller iPhone app, and auto adjust the size to be full screen. 🙄

And years after that: native calculator and weather apps. Just kidding; it'll never happen.

 

[Bobcat32]

Now we’re talking! Hopefully we will be able to access an iPhone native app while in landscape on iPad as a slide over window!!!! The size aspect would be perfect aka instagram. Fingers crossed!!!!!!!

 

[msackey]

So I just upgraded to iPadOS 15 and I don’t see this feature at all. In fact, I have an iPhone app I frequently use on my iPad but it doesn’t display well when iPad is in landscape mode. Was this feature removed for initial launch?

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[Edit: So after some testing, I realized that this particular app (Withing’s Health Mate) is not properly configured for landscape mode on iPads. This issue seems related to something the developer should solve and doesn’t seem to be an Apple issue.]

 

[Branaghan]

Now it works as it should, but some apps are exempt of this. Why hasn't Apple forced ALL of them to only be submitted to the Store if they work with this new feature? Or is it just the case for old versions?

The Uber app, for example, still forces portrait mode.

 

[deevey]

Now it works as it should, but some apps are exempt of this. Why hasn't Apple forced ALL of them to only be submitted to the Store if they work with this new feature? Or is it just the case for old versions?

The Uber app, for example, still forces portrait mode.

110% agree. Websites at this point need to be responsive, and there's no sensible reason the majority* of app's cannot, and should be forced to provide for both orientations as well.

*With the exception of games obviously.

 

[greynlds]

So is there a way to disable this new feature? I have an alarm clock app from iHandy that I like and have used for years, but the clock display is now vertical instead of horizontal when my iPad is in landscape mode.