Landscape View For Tablets

Yes, that’s annoying

Try this on your ipad pro and V3.
Lock in landscape mode so power plug is on left side of ipad.
Suppose you need turn on siren or timelapse or view playback, thus you have to escape full screen by pressing rotate icon
Now try go back to full screen in landscape, so press rotate icon again and you end up with picture not as you attached but upside down.
Better yet imagine this with ipad mounted on the wall because power outlet is on the left.

Finally see an update for you, and while it isn’t necessarily promising the full app, it talking about landscape in general, so I wanted to update you that an employee did indicate they are working to make landscape mode more compatible on more parts of the app:

Hopefully that will extend to other areas as well. :crossed_fingers:

@R.Good reminded me that you would love to hear of this progress, so I’m making sure you know more landscape support is coming. We’ll have to see how much gets done this year, but it’s a good sign that they are still working on it, and we know that some updates are coming this year at least. :slight_smile:

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I have no interest in buying more Wyze products until this landscape biz is fixed.

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It seems to be working on my iPads in landscape - full screen - for me just now, As it has for some time? What device are you using?

I’m going to guess that you have a more recent iPad and have Stage Manger turned on. With those two conditions met, the current Wyze app does work fully and completely in landscape. But many older iPads are not Stage Manager capable, so this doesn’t help them.

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I have a iPad Pro 11 inch (from 2021). I have Stage mgr. yes it’s a start. The videos and App though not in full screen.

In stage manager, if you pull down/right on the quarter circle icon at the bottom right corner of the window, it will expand to full screen, covering the app selector (left side) and dock (bottom).

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Yeah, this absolutely needs to happen. That’s what brought me back to this topic. Especially with the recent changes to the Monitoring tab, if Wyze can make that work in landscape mode, then the Multi-Camera Timeline View in a Wyze app running on other Android devices (e.g., Google TV and Chromecast) would be dope.

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Monitoring feature - Multi-Cam Timeline

I’d like to make a suggestion that for the monitoring section where we can watch 4 cams at once, could you make it that we can rotate to landscape mode? I sometimes like to pull up that part on my ipad and it’s hard to stand it up against something currently being in portrait mode. Thank you.

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@jodyhuett In case you didn’t have a chance to read this very long thread, I’ll repeat something that’s mentioned above: If your iPad is one that supports Stage Manager, activating it will help with this.

Also, a new version of the Wyze app is currently in beta testing that better supports landscape mode on tablets. You may want to join the beta to test it out. Here’s how:

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I think you misunderstood. This is the new monitoring feature that is in the app. Where we can pull up any 4 cams that we want to monitor ourselves regardless of whether the cam is inside or outside, or what group they are in. What I suggested has nothing to do with the original post of this thread as I can view my cams in landscape mode. I just can’t view it from the new feature of the monitoring tab on my iPad.

The original post is requesting landscape support across the entire app. Implementation of this wishlist topic includes the 4-cam view in the new Multi-Cam Timeline feature located in the Monitoring tab.

Ref 1st post:

Loki is saying that if you can’t wait for the rollout of this feature (currently in beta testing as part of Wyze app version 3.0.x), you may be able to use a workaround by enabling Stage Manager if your iPad model supports it.

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Yea looks like my ipad doesn’t have that feature or IOS 18 beta removed that feature. I don’t know as my iPad was just purchased last year and the latest model. Oh well I guess I’ll just have to watch the cams individually then as those I can put into landscape mode. But yes I can wait if it’s in beta, it’s no biggie, just that sometimes I like the full screen of the 4 cams (that change depending upon my needs) while doing other stuff on my macbook.