Can't find settings on iPad to hide Battery status and clock.

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Can't find settings on iPad to hide Battery status and clock.

Postby Norhtrawn » 06 Jun 2023 22:00

Hello,

I have a problem. I cannot find the setting to hide the battery status and clock when I want to watch a video in full screen. I looked in the settings of the app and in the iPad OS settings too.

It really is annoying to have the white clock and the green battery icon visible during fullscreen playback. First I thought that it might be a bug, but then realized that one wouldn't publish a new version where on of the most central and basic funtion of a videoplayer is glitched that way. And all other players have it hidden too (Netflix, Disney+, Prime etc ...) so it isn't a iPad OS bug either.

So, it seems I am too stupid to find the setting to hide battery, Wifi-symbol and clock from the full screen player. :-(

Can somebody point me to it?

Thanks.

I am on an iPad pro (12.9"). iPad OS 16.5 and latest VLC version (3.4.4)

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Re: Can't find settings on iPad to hide Battery status and clock.

Postby fkuehne » 08 Jun 2023 13:22

This is weird. It should obviously be hidden when all the other controls are hidden, too. We will check that.
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Re: Can't find settings on iPad to hide Battery status and clock.

Postby guesxy » 08 Jun 2023 18:14

Same started happening to me, didnt reset settings or otherwise, just bounced the ipad. Cant recall any updates going on, vlc 3.4.4, ipados is 16.5, same ipad pro 12.9 as the original poster

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Re: Can't find settings on iPad to hide Battery status and clock.

Postby Ali200 » 09 Jun 2023 13:57

Same thing happened to me. Latest update-3.4.5(522) on iPad running iOS 16.5. Time, dates and battery visible in full screen and will not go away!

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Re: Can't find settings on iPad to hide Battery status and clock.

Postby fkuehne » 09 Jun 2023 17:42

We will fix this for the next update. Note that for the meantime, you can run the app in bright instead of dark mode to hide the status bar.
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Re: Can't find settings on iPad to hide Battery status and clock.

Postby Uraratan » 18 Jun 2023 20:15

i am facing this problem to since iPad os 16.5 on ipad pro 2021 12.9" and latest videolan

on the other hand the iPad pr 2018 11" on iPad os 16.5 doesn't suffer from this problem

here some small screen recordings

iPAD Pro 2021 12.9" iPad OS 16.5 latest videolan
https://files.catbox.moe/8rks4q.mov

iPAD Pro 2018 11" iPad OS 16.5 Latest Videolan
https://files.catbox.moe/jnasm7.mov

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Re: Can't find settings on iPad to hide Battery status and clock.

Postby Dogo » 19 Jun 2023 13:48

Hello,

As stated previously, this issue has been fixed and the patch will be featured in the next release.

Thank you for the feedback.

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Re: Can't find settings on iPad to hide Battery status and clock.

Postby fkuehne » 27 Jun 2023 09:56

Hello,

We published an update last night to fix this!
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