iOS 2025.30.0 Bug: Square Art Crops Badly in iPad Landscape

Plex Players Mobile Devices
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Server Version: 1.43.0.10346 (Beta)
iOS App Version: 2025.30.0

Observed Bug:
When viewing any detail page on an iPad in Landscape Mode (held sideways), the app prioritizes the Square Art (1:1) image as the background. This causes the image to be severely cropped on the top and bottom (fitting to width), even though a perfectly fitting 16:9 background file is present for all titles. The result is a worse visual experience than before the Square Art feature was introduced.

My Expected Behavior for this new artwork that I was excited about:
The ios/mobile app should use the Widescreen Fanart (16:9) in Landscape Mode to fill the screen uncropped, and only use the Square Art (1:1) in Portrait Mode.

Is this vertical cropping in landscape the intended design for the new iOS experience? If so, it makes the new feature a visual eyesore on tablets - and I have worked too hard over the years on all my local metadata to come to this…

Yes, it does look pretty on an iphone now that the artwork fits with the backgroundsquare. But I’d rather go back to how it was if this is how it’s going to look on tablets.

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I’ve just noticed this. Looks really bad.

I’ve posted about another issue on the iPadOS layout: The ultrablur filter and the positioning of the titles

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Thanks for the report, I’ve brought this up with the team.

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11920×834 228 KB

with Background Art

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22157×969 184 KB

with BackgroundSquare art = ipad/tablet = examples

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I’m beginning to really like the new layout on iOS when using square art and clear logos - not iPadOS yet.

Only thing I’m missing now is theme music :musical_note:

Gladiator
Gladiator828×1792 155 KB

Frankenstein
Frankenstein828×1792 222 KB

Do any of you have any collections where you have manually added square art or logos?

Post 'em :slight_smile:

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