This bug appears to only be reproduceable in experiences that support mobile devices in any orientation, for example the Roblox Innovation Awards Voting Hub.
You’ll want to load into the experience and then rotate your device so that it moves from portrait to horizontal, obverse the location of the notch bar and notice that it has now taken up a non trivial part of the screen at the top.
Record on iPhone 13 Pro, iOS 16 Dev beta. Roblox version: 2.536.458 (0702f4)
Expected Behavior
I’d expect the bar remain there.
Actual Behavior
You’ll notice how much that this bar takes of the screen.
I wouldn’t really call this a bug, but rather an expected faulty app.
Seeing by the OS version you are using, iOS 16 developer beta isn’t the most stable version I’ve ever seen. Try switching to a more stable OS version rather than some unstable developer preview version that breaks daily?
Ignoring that this is a bug, this is absolutely something to report.
It is important to report bugs like this because it’s important to track these kinds of problems throughout the developer builds, this is beta 4 not 1, it has gotten better. Reporting early means that before the wider public sees it, it can be resolved by Roblox. There may be a larger impact than what I see here.
You can totally note workarounds like, don’t allow different orientations, only stay portrait, go back to public beta or stable. Sure they work around it but ignore the underlying problem.
If Roblox wishes to ignore the report, that remains their decision.
It is only sometimes because it only affects game which have orientation change enabled. For those games it is constant.
Again, it is important to report early. It is better to have something on the radar than not at all. If between dev beta 4 and public beta 3, it fixes. The bug is marked fixed.
If Roblox engineers wish not to deal with this bug and to wait for a full release, that remains their personal decision. I am only here to report bugs, not decide the priority above what the engineers ask of me already.
Can confirm that this does occur. I was able to repro on IPhone 13. Seems like the beta is causing it, as I’m currently running iOS 16.5 Public Beta. No known workaround from what I can tell.
I think this must be related to iOS 16. I am currently on iOS 16 Public Beta 3, and I am experiencing this as well. @railworks2
Not sure if it’s something Roblox will need to fix on their end, or something Apple will deal with.
I’ve noticed strange landscape behavior in multiple apps, so I’m leaning towards this is an Apple issue. Will probably be resolved in the next beta or two. (still hasn’t been fixed and we are close to release- maybe Roblox does need to change something)
Bumping this thread with iOS 16 set to release to the public soon. Any info if this is on Apple’s end specifically or something Roblox themselves have to fix?
Should note that I’m still experiencing this in iOS Public Beta 8. Using the iPhone 13 with the latest Roblox app version. (version 2.542.509)
The lack of notice on this bug report by DevRel or any engineering team is quite worrying. With iOS 16 being publicly released, this issue is now affecting a large amount of Roblox’s user base and removing significant screen real estate. As a result, players are going to have a worse experience in every game and developers will pay the price for an issue out of their control.
Also this issue is still happening without any response from ROBLOX! Please fix this soon as it ruins the player experience and restricts their screen to a smaller size then necessary.
