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    • Mr-Panther
      Mr-Panther last edited by

      When I tap the full screen on youtube video its orientation is vertical instead of landscape how do I fix it. It is very annoying!

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      • Mr-Panther
        Mr-Panther last edited by

        Android 11.1
        Phone oppo a9 2020
        Opera version latest( just downloaded yesterday)
        Ad blocker on
        Data saver off

        When I tap full screen on youtube video its orientation is vertical instead of landscape. How do i fix it

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        • A Former User
          A Former User @Mr-Panther last edited by

          @mr-panther This is the problem of chromium, I have already posted a bug report on their forum but it has been more than 10 days now and no action has been taken so far. The developers of chromium are the slowest.

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          • Mr-Panther
            Mr-Panther @Guest last edited by

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

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            • leocg
              leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

              It's working here on Opera for Android 81.

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              • 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

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                • 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

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                  • 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,

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                    • leocg
                      leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

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

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                      • 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.

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                        • leocg
                          leocg Moderator Volunteer @Mr-Panther last edited by

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

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                          • 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.

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                            • 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.

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                                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.

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                                • Mr-Panther
                                  Mr-Panther @Guest last edited by

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

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                                  • 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

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                                    • leocg
                                      leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

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

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                                      • 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.

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                                        • 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.

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