YouTube video orientation

[Mr-Panther]

Mr-Panther @Guest last edited by

@anindyasundarbhar waiting for this to fix it's very annoying. You got any other solution?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

It's working here on Opera for Android 81.

[A Former User]

A Former User @Mr-Panther last edited by

@mr-panther go to this forum to register your issue on chromium

https://issues.chromium.org/issues

[A Former User]

A Former User @leocg last edited by

@leocg All of my browsers(Google Chrome, Opera) on android(12) are up to date and the issue is still there. It all started when the system update for the playstore had been pushed a few days ago, since then many people started facing the issue, I visited the brave forum and found a post where the users encountered the same issue
https://community.brave.com/t/youtube-full-screen-stays-in-portrait-mode/536178

[A Former User]

A Former User @Mr-Panther last edited by

@mr-panther speaking of fixing, I installed Mozilla Firefox because it is not a chromium browser and the fullscreen is working fine on the landscape mode,

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@anindyasundarbhar Just checked again and Fullscreen works. I'm on Android 13.

[Mr-Panther]

Mr-Panther @leocg last edited by

@leocg well it's not working in mine even tho you say it is working. I tried clearing data and reinstalling the opera app but still no fix yet.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Mr-Panther last edited by

@mr-panther Are you moving the phone to the landscape position?

[A Former User]

A Former User @leocg last edited by A Former User

@leocg is your autorotation turned on? Most people like me turn off the screen rotation on our phones. You need to turn rotation off and check if the videos played on the landscape mode. Earlier youtube videos used to play on the landscape mode when clicking the fullscreen option even if the screen rotation was turned off.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@anindyasundarbhar Yes, it's turned on.

With it turned off, the video doesn't change to landscape mode.

[A Former User]

A Former User @leocg last edited by

@leocg This is why we are talking about this issue, 10 or 12 days ago all of us could watch youtube on the landscape mode with autorotation turned off, and after an update from playstore it just stopped playing on the landscape mode. Install Mozilla Firefox and you will notice that youtube videos are playing just fine on the landscape mode with autorotation turned off. The problem is with chromium and the developers are extremely slow to fix, people will probably have to wait a month or more to get it fixed considering most of us keep autorotation off. Or you may have to use a non chromium browser like Firefox, which I did.

[Mr-Panther]

Mr-Panther @Guest last edited by

@anindyasundarbhar exactly brother your are right. Moderater please look into that @leocg

[Mr-Panther]

Mr-Panther @leocg last edited by

@leocg yes that's what we are asking to fix. Before when we tapped full screen it automatically went to landscape mode even if auto rotation was off

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@anindyasundarbhar Maybe it's a deliberated decision to follow Android settings?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by leocg

@anindyasundarbhar If that's is Chromium issue, most probably you will need to wait for them to release a fix.

[A Former User]

A Former User @leocg last edited by

@leocg I know it is a chromium issue. I have already registered a bug report on the chromium bug report channel. However I feel Google might have done this intentionally to make people use the youtube app instead. If that so, horrible decision I must say. Evil.