No more full screen video scrubbing iOS17?

I can’t believe there isn’t massive outrage over this change. People are raging over watchOS 10 not being able to swipe faces but not this change? When reading around on Reddit I see more people outraged over the full screen scrubbing in iOS 16 than the removal of it in 17. But I’m noticing that most of the people upset about the controls in 16 just didn’t know how to use them.

could we at least have a setting to bring the iOS 16 controls back?

Aren’t Apple supposed to be all about UX? This is one of the worst decisions I’ve seen in 20 years of using Apple products. The pull of a Google phone’s photo editing was already making me rethink iPhones and this is another nail in the coffin. Sort it out Apple. You are falling behind.

This was one of the best features for me. I feel frustrated every time now watching videos. It was by far the most ergonomic feature by far.

Make it configurable instead of just removing for whatever reasons. Especially if some users dont like it - making it configurable is catering to everyone…

Not gonna lie, the lack of that feature reduced the amount of videos I watch on my phone now.

So annoying. I used this all the time, now I’m frustrated that is gone and for upgrading. Definitely doesn’t feel like an upgrade. Now you have to tap, then wait, then *dim the ****** screen* (which covers/fades what you’re watching), then scrub at the very bottom. That also runs the very real risk of switching/closing the app since the app switch/swipe up gesture starts right there. You have mere pixels to correct.

Ugh I’m frustrated too. It was a feature I quickly adapted to since a few apps I used had implemented it first. It was extremely convenient!

Now I find myself being reminded of it’s absence everyday and signing into this website to add my two cents. Apple, seriously not cool removing a feature that streamlined daily use. I hope it makes a return in an update!

Not happy at all with this change. Upgrade is supposed to mean better. This is NOT an upgrade!!

bring it back!!! this was one of the few features ios has compared to android and you removed it bracous of several d*mb users you have? outrageous

And the worst thing is that it seems nobody from Apple is listening their customers. I read couple of discussions on this topic here on Apple discussions and no response from Apple. Why? You really don’t care what your customers want? Steve must be turning over in his grave like a propeller🤬

I really could not imagine why Apple has decided to remove this feature. Such a terrible decision made. If it’s not fixed soon I will purchase a different phone brand. Not gonna put up with this for long.

Bring back the iOS15 video controls. The change in iOS16 was bad enough with removal of double tab forwarding and now it’s totally gone? Who thought this was a good decision?

Perhaps start or follow a trend by asking Apple directly, in a Feedback channel

that they will read? While that usually happens, if one addresses Apple privately;

don't expect public open discussions forum, to open a floodgate & swamp them.

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You can’t go back to 16 now since Apple stopped signing every version except 17.1.1 making it impossible to downgrade. Thanks again Apple.

This is terrible, I can’t believe this passed user testing! The iOS 17 video scrubbing went backwards like 3 years! Please Apple we need you to bring back the iOS 16 full screen video scrubbing/scrolling! It was the best feature since the side-screen swip to go back a screen. Serious those 2 features were 2 huge things keeping me on iPhone and now one of them is gone.

This is unbelievable!!! How is it possible to remove such a cool feature and not even bring it back on 17.3 where they promised to fix things?! I was a huge fan of this, advocating iphone over android mostly because great features like this. Now it is gone..