iPhone 12 Pro Max Why don’t apps like Youtube, Netflix, Prime Video and so many others support navigation in landscape mode on the iPhone?

[Sid91]

I mean JFC! any time I browse web pages in landscape or after playing a game, the screen just switches to vertical orientation after switching to these apps or even to the home screen. Why u do this Apple?

 

[Shirasaki]

Ask devs to fix those, which would be in the bottom of their priority chain.

 

[ericwn]

That’s certainly for the individual developers to answer - but if you look at usage from the other end… have you ever realized how many crappy vertical videos people end up doing? They don’t shoot vertical because it deliberately looks crappy on any widescreen monitor, but they find the phone easier to hold that way.

I’m sure the same will apply to most other apps.

 

[Sid91]

That’s certainly for the individual developers to answer - but if you look at usage from the other end… have you ever realized how many crappy vertical videos people end up doing? They don’t shoot vertical because it deliberately looks crappy on any widescreen monitor, but they find the phone easier to hold that way.

I’m sure the same will apply to most other apps.

But this is still so irritating, can’t Apple implement a system wide landscape mode?

 

[ericwn]

But this is still so irritating, can’t Apple implement a system wide landscape mode?

The options to use landscape are there for each developer to use or ignore. I don’t think Apple can force them to make landscape apps.

Apple themselves had landscape mode for the Home Screen on some devices in the past but with the launch of the notch iPhones that went away. Plenty of Apple’s apps still use landscape mode though, so not all is lost.