Bye-bye Black Bars: YouTube Player on iOS Will Now Auto-adjust to Vertical Videos
Watching a vertical/portrait-orientated video on YouTube’s iOS app has until now been somewhat reminiscent of the days when you would watch a widescreen-shot film on an old and bulky square TV, whereby half of your screen becomes devoted to annoying black bars in order to fit the picture to the screen. It may be a minor nuisance, but it’s a nuisance nonetheless.
Fortunately for those who have been bothered by the presence
of these blacked-out areas of screen, YouTube recently unveiled a brand new
albeit small update which should tackle the issue promptly. As announced via
Twitter last week, the video player will now adapt to the dimensions of the
video you’re watching.
You can see how the newly-updated player will work in the
tweet below:
Bye bye, black bars. 👋— Team YouTube (@TeamYouTube) 19 December 2017
Now the YouTube player on iOS will automatically adapt to the shape of the video you’re viewing! pic.twitter.com/4jzJ6nPj4G
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Bye-bye Black Bars: YouTube Player on iOS Will Now Auto-adjust to Vertical Videos
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