YouTube for Android now shows vertical vids properly in full screen

YouTube can't get people to stop recording videos vertically, so it has to do the next best thing: make it more pleasant to watch them back.

YouTube for Android now shows vertical vids properly in full screen

A new YouTube update on Android, YouTube 10.28, displays vertical videos correctly, i.e. vertically, when made full screen.

Previously, vertical videos would be displayed in full screen by displaying it in landscape mode with black bars on either side. And you couldn't rotate to make it fit better. This made it marginally larger than it had been in non-full screen view.

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