Unable to play videos in landscape orientation in Plex Photos app

blakeaalley
Sat, 03 Jan 2026 02:36:26 +0000
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Attempting to start playing a video in the Plex Photos app on an iPhone rotated to landscape orientation results in a brief rotation of the UI to landscape, a brief loading icon, and the UI rotating back to portrait without the video beginning to play.

Similarly, rotating an iPhone from portrait to landscape orientation while playing a video in the Plex Photos app (starting the video while still in portrait orientation) results in a brief rotation of the UI to landscape and the video immediately stopping, then the UI rotates back to portrait.

The desired behavior is, in either of the cases described above, for the video to continue playing (or be able to start playing at all) while the iPhone is rotated to landscape in order to view landscape videos inside Photos libraries more effectively.

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