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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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Oct 31, 2014 6:57 AM in response to Sebastian from salt lake city

Thankfully someone in this thread suggested an app called MVP Video Playlist from ByteApps. Let's you pick your Music Videos playlist - or any other playlist for that matter, and your videos play in full landscape mode (bye-bye cover flow!). Sure hope they fix this soon - I'm waiting for my 6 Plus phone, so not sure if they've fixed it on that yet (I did download iOS 8.1 on my iPhone 5 and the landscape videos in my iTunes still didn't work - so I'm guessing I'll be using the MVP app on my 6 Plus as well). Thank you to all the users here for the great info! 🙂

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

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