I recently noticed that when turning the iPhone to landscape mode Safari won't hide the top and bottom menu bars if you have you have your display set to Zoomed, instead of the Standard view default in iOS.
I tried viewing a 360 image in Safari (using a VR headset) and the bars didn't disappear when I rotated the phone to landscape mode, which prevented me from getting a full screen view of nothing but the 360 image. After a long time of trying to figure out why it wouldn't let me, I went into my Display & Brightness settings and switched to the Standard view and this fixed the issue. (I've been using the Display Zoom feature ever since it was first introduced and I don't recall this being an issue before when switching to landscape mode to view 360 images in Safari.)
Is there a way to hide the menu bars without having to go back and forth between Standard and Zoomed? I don't understand why it would make a difference whether the user has Standard or Zoomed selected in their Display settings just to be able to enter full screen mode in Safari. Is this possibly an iOS glitch that Apple can address in a a future update?
This what the 360 VR image looks like in landscape. The top and bottom bars also show up in the headset:
And what it looks like when Zoom is turned off:
I tried viewing a 360 image in Safari (using a VR headset) and the bars didn't disappear when I rotated the phone to landscape mode, which prevented me from getting a full screen view of nothing but the 360 image. After a long time of trying to figure out why it wouldn't let me, I went into my Display & Brightness settings and switched to the Standard view and this fixed the issue. (I've been using the Display Zoom feature ever since it was first introduced and I don't recall this being an issue before when switching to landscape mode to view 360 images in Safari.)
Is there a way to hide the menu bars without having to go back and forth between Standard and Zoomed? I don't understand why it would make a difference whether the user has Standard or Zoomed selected in their Display settings just to be able to enter full screen mode in Safari. Is this possibly an iOS glitch that Apple can address in a a future update?
This what the 360 VR image looks like in landscape. The top and bottom bars also show up in the headset:
And what it looks like when Zoom is turned off:
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