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iOS 7 won't allow music videos on a playlist play in landscape mode

So before in the Music app if I selected a Music Video and played it in landscape mode, it, well, played in landscape mode, full screen.

Now with the music app in iOS 7 if I play a music video and turn it to landscape mode, I get...album tiles. ?????

Seriously? What genius thought this up? "Hey, if a guy is watching a music video and rotates his phone, I'll bet he wants to see a bunch of unrelated album art. Let's make that happen."

The only way to see video full screen is from the Video app, but gee, no way to organize anything by artist, playlist, or any other way that I can see. Just one long alphabetical list of individual media files. Once a music video ends you have to manually tap on another to play instead of a continuous list or random list.

While running at the gym the vertical view is very inconvenient since the phone won't stay on a stand with the headphones Jack coming out from under it.

PLEASE FIX THIS!!!

iPhone 4, iOS 6

Posted on Sep 24, 2013 9:58 PM

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Posted on Sep 27, 2013 7:01 AM

I find this ridiculous as well i cant believe they did this, its my only problem with the new os i really hope they fix this soon.

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Dec 26, 2013 11:30 AM in response to Sebastian from salt lake city

I cannot understand why apple does not give importance to the music player although the main idea for releasing iphone came from the ipod touch! how come a person cannot watch the video in landscape mode? even the worst smartphones have this function! In the huuuuggeeeee apple company there must be someone that asks to his/her managers or etcc why we are not providing this to our customers? This is really ridiculous function and it makes me crazy! Hope they will fix it asap!

Mar 3, 2014 12:29 PM in response to Sebastian from salt lake city

I swear to god i want to snap my iPhone 5s in half because of this stupid ignorant crap.


If i didnt just enter a 2 year contract (my first cell phone ever) i would break my phone and buy an android!


This closed garden crap is bananas and I just wish i knew about this insanity before i bought the much hyped iPhone 5s.


I feel Soooooo ripped off its not funny.

Apr 5, 2014 11:48 PM in response to Sebastian from salt lake city

Seriously Apple do you always concentrate in the things we don't use and then mess up the great things with our iPhone 5 that we do use. Like the man said consistency would be great at this point in time. What we don't need is frustration because we were all happy using something to its full capacity. Great the genius that thought this up really needs to take a good hard look at these forums.

Jul 11, 2014 8:01 PM in response to Midwest AJ

I have already decided I will not be buying any more music videos or Apple hardware unless they fix this issue in Music or add iTunes Playlist support, full functionality Search in the Videos app.


I spend way to much money on iTunes Store merchandise to watch my music videos in 1/2"x 2 1/2" mode or not be able to search the 6700 TV Shows, Movies, video Podcasts that show up when I have iTunes Match turned on.

Jul 11, 2014 8:24 PM in response to Sebastian from salt lake city

They opened themselves up for it and there are now two Music Video player apps. $.99 and $4.99 options which have free versions search MusicVideoPlayer (one word) in iTunes Store or the links below.


Here is one:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/music-video-player/id873195867?mt=8


and the other:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/musicvideoplayer/id788300967?mt=8

iOS 7 won't allow music videos on a playlist play in landscape mode

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