Video Playback on iOS 18 is Broken - Video size is small and timeline ends early when setting video to full frame or zooming in. Serious bug.

They ruined Photos and Videos. Playing a video is so tedious and unintuitive now. It opens in a small window and you can’t play a video frame by frame or by dragging it slowly while in full screen. The scroll bar is vague and doesn’t give insight into what time or duration of the video you’re at and there is no thumbnail preview at the bottom. All in all iOS 18 is a downgrade. Virtually everything they did was backwards and makes the UX cringeworthy, time consuming, and limiting. I really hope someone is listening and fixes this in 18.2.

but listen to what people are trying to communicate

I can hear what people are saying clear as a bell, but what's the point of that? I don't work for Apple, I'm just a user like yourself and the best way to communicate with Apple is via the Feedback mechanism. As I said earlier in this thread Apple do promise to read everything posted there, they don't promise to read anything here.

Your topic was my exact first thoughts when I discovered this about video scrubbing / default crop size of photos and videos now. I also scoured the internet looking for answers and other people with similar issues. Spot on, mate. I’ve submitted my feedback to Apple. I hope that enough people do it so that they listen to us and change it. It’s almost impossible to use videos now for any type of educational/ instructional content. They’ve taken away all ability for it to function correctly .

it was the best video player. just for the ability to do fine scrubbing no matter how long the video was. extremely useful if you needed to do frame by frame analysis (for sports for example, and i’m sure there are countless other use cases). now they’ve replaced with the same sh*tty progress bar that’s seen everywhere. 😡

I hate the new interface for editing or even just trying to play a video, it’s so difficult for me to control that slide bar now, it’s too small and my hand shakes too much, I like to review videos from my dash cam, and it’s making it impossible.

I don’t know who thought minimizing everything was a good idea, and if I zoom in on the video while I’m scrolling through it, I have to close the video and reopen it because I lose the ability to scroll when I zoom out, they need to give the option revert to the old interface

ios 18 screwed up a lot of issues. Has everyone noticed that APPLE has not chimed in and offered any support. Nor have they acknowledged the many issues. Where is APPLE SUPPORT? >>> iPhone 14 ios 18 videos no longer transfer with properties nor thumbnail. We have hundreds of iPhone videos, all with properties and thumbnails. But starting around late Sept and early Oct. all videos transferred to our various computers W10/11, no longer have properties nor thumbnail images. They do all play however. We have hundreds of iPhone videos transferred to our computers over many years. All have properties and thumbnail images. Now, the videos have neither. Wondering if the last ios 18 updates did something to videos.

Azurloriurearer wrote:

This is complete nonsense. Apple, bring back precision video skimming and magnetic timeline, please. It was a heart of the Photos app.

Apple doesn't read here in this user-to-user forum for feedback or suggestions. You can, however, let them know your thoughts here:

Product Feedback - Apple

Don’t think Apple listens to feedback? Think again.

iOS 18.2 details:

So next time you want to complain about how “Apple DOESN’T RESPECT ME,” or “I am switching to SAMSUNG,” (those are both real comments I saw) this is proof that Feedback works, and this is not the place to give it. Hate never helped anyone.

Product Feedback - Apple

I can’t believe more people aren’t talking about the IOS 18 video issues. It almost seems as if Apple is silencing commentators in the forum. Anyway it seems in 18.2 SOME issues have been fixed but there still is not a scrubber at the bottom and also if you zoom into videos and try to play them frame by frame it sometimes only plays approximately 1 second of the video or freezes. It’s been buggy since 18.0. Can Apple simply revert back to 17.0+ or dismantle their Apple Photos division and replace them with more logical employees who don’t mess things up for the sake of changing just to change?

The updated “Photos App” has ruined the use of video playback. I use video playback on my phone everyday for my work, analyzing high performance athletes. Because when you record video you cannot go from 0.5-7x zoom you use hi-res and pitch and zoom while dragging through video.

For what ever reason someone decided to remove this feature, yet keep the ability on IpadOS 18.2.1 does allow this? How can the developers make this kind of mistake?

i am thankful i do not need to tap the correct miniature thumbnail at the bottom to open it up in order to drag through the video so there has been improvements, but why is IOS unable to keep the video scrolling feature while zooming but my 3rd gen iPad Air on IpadOS18 can?

I have discussed this with hundred of clients who all hate this bug