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.

This same thing is driving me crazy. The UI is horrible and inaccessible and doesn’t help at all with displaying the video. Every time you want to pause or play a video taken vertically from your phone, it zooms you out and clutters the screen with all that extra stuff and a black border like you mentioned. Sorry I don’t have a solution. I’m just commenting to bring more attention to this post, in hopes Apple will do something and fix this in a future update.

Apple please fix this! Watch the video attached in this thread. It explains it perfectly. We need to be able to zoom into the video while still being able to scrub through the ENTIRE video. I've tried very hard and still can't think of a single possible reason why you would only want to see the first few frames of a video when zooming in. Please fix this ASAP.

Same thing is happening to me and it’s making my photos app unusable!! Once again Apple attempting to fix a problem that didn’t exist and just ends making everything worse. I wish I never updated to this new POS software.

Always love the way folks on here demand that people be fired, lose their livelihoods and possibly send their families into poverty because of what? Added points for invoking the departed Mr. Jobs, and the absolute certainty that you, who never met him, would know what he wanted.

Happy to see it’s not just my phone. Have been going crazy all week trying to figure out what’s wrong and that YouTube video explains exactly what is happening to me. It’s impossible to watch videos in full screen frame by frame. There is no reason videos should open in a tiny screen. Nothing was wrong with video before; why did they find a reason to change it and make it worse? 😡

i gave the same problem, however, a bigger problem for me is when I watch a video I just made or watch a video on YouTube or TikTok the video will stop. Press play again and it will stop almost immediately. IOS18 has ruined everything about video capabilities on the device and viewing videos.

This is so upsetting and I feel I upgraded to iPhone 16 pro and iOS 18 for nothing and only to get a much worse experience! I take screenshots from videos usually and once I have I can no longer scrub forward or back and have to quit the video and come into it again!! Absolutely livid that Apple make things so much worse and not better over time! This makes no sense!

I’m facing a significant issue with video editing across all apps on my iPhone, including the native Photos app. Whenever I try to rewind or trim a video, it simply doesn't work. For instance, if I rewind to the 3-minute mark, the video stops loading, everything freezes, and I completely lose control. This problem persists not only in the default app but also in every third-party editing app I’ve tried (Instagram, VN, Cutcut). It’s a major setback for me as I rely on my phone for vlogging and content creation, yet I’m currently unable to edit my videos at all. Either the image freezes while the sound continues, or the video doesn’t load properly at all. This issue is severely impacting my ability to work, and it seems like the video editing functionality is entirely broken with the recent update.

This is the feature many of us use more than any other on an iPhone. I was hopeful that the minor version bump to 18.0.1 would fix this really unfortunate experience, but it didn’t.

Apple I’m pretty close to buying a Pixel after this. It’s not just the numerous egregious bugs in this release, it’s the lack of recognition.

You’re the platform that all others emulate. You have seriously lost your edge. The missing AI features are bad enough, but acceptable, but you also ruined features that were previously great. What is going on over there?

Your point is a good one, but remember how much we pay for these devices.

It’s also pretty standard for software companies at this level to have multiple layers of quality and product feedback.

Apple obviously rushed this release, didn’t coordinate effectively and still wants to be on top.

maybe the hyperbolic commentary is over done, but listen to what people are trying to communicate. They feel snubbed, especially because it’s now impossible to install a lower version of iOS.