Facebook videos no longer go full screen on my iPad Air

To go full screen, click on the little double screen icon in the top right corner then click on expand screen bottom left icon on bar that appears.

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Voxgendron wrote:

For some odd reason Facebook videos will not change to full screen as before. I tap on the diagonal arrow in the lower right corner of video to make it full screen but now that doesn't work at all. I checked everywhere for settings but cannot find anywhere that would prevent that from occurring. It used to do this but now nothing happens when I tap on arrow.

Frustrating that things change for no apparent reason and you can't find an answer.

What did META support say?

So this works if video is shot in landscape mode. Anyway to go full screen in portrait mode though? Videos shot in portrait will go “full” if flipped to landscape but as soon as go back to portrait headers and footers are back.

No go on MacBook. It's a very small picture that will not expand. Perhaps if Facebook put less effort on banning people, they could find the time to correct the issue and write decent code and keep up to date.

Yep me too. Deleted and reinstalled and it made no difference

I’ve been experiencing the same issue for weeks now & I thought I was the only one. What’s the point of the diagonal arrow in the corner if it doesn’t do anything anymore?

I have the exact same issue for the last month..

so this is a spread one and not just me

IpadOS 17.6.1

I have the same issue with the app itself..

Thanks that works, but we are still waiting for a fix which should be from Meta's FB app or maybe an iOS update?

Same issue but with Iphone 14+

Tried everything- reinstall, shut down phone, clear cache but nothing and it’s been weeks. Made 2 reports and email but no response and still same issue

This works! Thanks!

That is the absolute dumbest thing. BUT it WORKS! But, gee, there must be a real way to get this back. HA!\\

Nicely Done, LeStevo!

PhilBench wrote:

I have the exact same issue for the last month..

so this is a spread one and not just me

IpadOS 17.6.1

Same answer applies to you and everyone else that keeps asking the same question. Facebook isn't an Apple app.

Same issue. I have found though, if while watching a Facebook vid, you turn you iPad, sideways, so the screen is portrait, and then turn it back to horizontal, the video will automagically go full screen.

Hope this is useful.