{"id":10496,"date":"2015-01-17T11:06:25","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T16:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=10496"},"modified":"2015-01-25T19:42:01","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T00:42:01","slug":"video-and-ios-rotation-lock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/17\/video-and-ios-rotation-lock\/","title":{"rendered":"Video and iOS Rotation Lock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/minutestomidnight.net\/blog\/2015\/1\/video-and-ios-rotation-lock\">Tim Schmitz<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/minutestomidnight.net\/blog\/2015\/1\/video-and-ios-rotation-lock\">\n<p>In fact, I leave auto-rotation enabled for one simple reason: video. Most video fits far better in landscape orientation than in portrait. The iPhone's screen is perfectly shaped for wide-aspect video in landscape. Unfortunately for me, iOS won't rotate video into landscape orientation unless it can rotate the <em>whole<\/em> OS into landscape. Put another way, if I use rotation lock to keep the phone in portrait orientation, that applies to video as well. That means video gets letterboxed into a postage stamp-sized area in the center of my screen.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I wish it would show video in landscape and everything else in portrait.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2015-01-25): <a href=\"http:\/\/log.maniacalrage.net\/post\/109028913374\/minutes-to-midnight-video-and-ios-rotation-lock\">Garrett Murray<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/log.maniacalrage.net\/post\/109028913374\/minutes-to-midnight-video-and-ios-rotation-lock\"><p>There are, however, two cases in which I want the option to use landscape mode: playing games and watching video. Tim&rsquo;s suggestion of video ignoring rotation lock would be perfect (applied to games as well, obviously). If I had my way, I&rsquo;d remove landscape from iPhone in iOS entirely but for these two scenarios.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Schmitz: In fact, I leave auto-rotation enabled for one simple reason: video. Most video fits far better in landscape orientation than in portrait. The iPhone's screen is perfectly shaped for wide-aspect video in landscape. Unfortunately for me, iOS won't rotate video into landscape orientation unless it can rotate the whole OS into landscape. Put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,85,97],"class_list":["post-10496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ios","tag-iphone","tag-video"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10597,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10496\/revisions\/10597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}