maybe paid app?
free wyze app - regular app with bugs
wyze landscape pro deluxe version - landscape view and no bugs
If they had a landscape option in a paid version it would have been announced already. Until Wyze fixes the App I am not buying any more of their products.
Yup, it’s a long thread. Forum tip: On desktop, if you click “Nov 2018” on the right side, it’ll take you right up to the top. On mobile, tap “986/986” (or however many posts there are now) to bring up this same scroll bar, then tap “Nov 2018”.
To summarize a couple points that may help that are buried in the 986 posts above:
• Wyze has made a bit of progress on this. A few pages now have landscape view. For example, the home screen now has landscape view on iPads.
• On newer iPads, if you turn on Stage Manager, the Wyze app’s non-landscape pages will be shown vertically with black bars on the side when the iPad is in landscape orientation, thus not avoiding the need to turn it to portrait to use the app.
Also, not directly related, but the Wyze app is available on Apple Silicon Macs (using Catalyst). It’s not perfect, but works pretty well.
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I just looked again to be sure - mine are all displaying fullscreen in landscape (albeit with small black spaces at top and bottom) as they have been for a couple of months now. Still have to turn the iPad to portrait to get the settings icon, but turning it back resets it to fullscreen landscape. It was a long, long haul to get here. Maybe I turned Stage Manager on for some other reason somewhere along the line. Now if only GoPro would manage to fix their software too!
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If Stage Manager is on, you can tap the “rotate” icon at top right with the iPad in landscape and it will show the portrait view (with settings icon and other controls) without having to physically flip the iPad.
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Loki - didn’t know about Stage Manager, that is super helpful, thanks!
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Has to be a compatible device. Turn Stage Manager on or off on your iPad - Apple Support
Wow. First I heard of this Stage manager option.
Close to what I want, but not perfect as the app does not fill the screen.
I have ipad9, & do not see the setting for stage manager" under multitasing & gesteures" in settings. I see “off” & “split view & slide over” only. I have no Stage Manger selection. I have the latest ios. Any suggestitons, please?
stage manager is only on more expensive ipads, it is poorly designed and does not do what we ask.
if wyze implemented landscape, fixed connectivity problems i would purchase cam plus right away, otherwise i do not see reason to spend money on something i will not be able use
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Here’s the list of supported models: Turn Stage Manager on or off on your iPad - Apple Support
Trying stage manager. Yep, NOT the best solution. Not so easy to delete a video.
Also - Some Apps do not allow access to the keyboard.
Agree that Stage Manager is a workaround pending a better solution
Got it, thanks for the info. I always tell hubby, I like their cameras, but their software is full of issues.
That explains why I don’t see it… mine’s not there, thanks for the info.
READ ALL PLEASE:
Stage manager does the job for me? It is true that older iPads can not run the Version/s of IOS that include Stage Manager, but it is built into the ‘free’ operating system on most “modern’ iPads. I can run it on most of mine. I’ll attach a screenshot from the 2018 iPad Pro I am using right now running IOS 17.3.1.
Lest anyone feel it is just for ‘expensive’ iPads I also just tried it on an iPad Air 2 from 2014 that does not have Stage Manager, running IOS 15.8 - all cameras are displaying in in both landscape and portrait on it too. Works on my iPhone too.
In fact, I just tried turning Stage Manager off on the iPads it will work on and found that all my cameras are now displaying in landscape without stage manager. Maybe Wyze has finally given us what we asked for since the first Wyze cams came out!
Well, yes and no. Cameras have been able to switch to landscape on all iPads for some time now by tapping the square icon or rotate icon (depending on the camera type) in the upper right corner. A few app pages, like the home screen device list, have been implemented in landscape. However, without Stage Manger, most other pages (such as camera settings) only display in portrait and are sideways when displayed on an iPad mounted in landscape orientation (unless you have Stage Manager available and enabled).
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You are of course correct, but it is good enough for me at this point. I don’t really expect to have perfection at Wyze’ price point and utility.
In my opinion, the Wyze app functions well and supports quite a variety of products in pretty decent fashion - especially for a free app. In the past some ‘security camera’ apps I had to use required costly upgrades to provide fewer functions and less interoperability. The landscape issue was always a big one for me in the past because I knew how easy that should have been to program - at least to the present functionality.
Of the several brands (Eufy, Kasa, Ring, and others using DVR in the past) I deal with in work and home applications Wyze has so far surpassed all with greater, overall economy for me.
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I do really appreciate the value Wyze offers for a low price (and that I’m not feeding my video into a Big Tech data stream). Also true that you can see all your cameras in landscape mode on the iPad, which is the most common use case, w/o Stage Manager. The app flips to portrait mode if you click into the settings, that’s the part to fix.
I have landscape on my Samsung S8+. Labs is all I remember setting to force landscape. Don’t think I changed anything in Developer Options.