Bug 299591 – REGRESSION (iPadOS 26): Wrong getUserMedia camera→video orientation on website "Added to Home Screen"

• Component: Media
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Will Budd]

Created attachment 476861 [details]
Screenshot of JSFiddle link above when viewed from home screen (with mistakenly rotated video)

I've created a Minimal Viable Reproducible Example here: https://jsfiddle.net/jn4g18ap/

Given an HTML5 video element...

‹video id='video' autoplay muted playsinline></video>

..and some JavaScript to set its source to a camera by means of getUserMedia...

(async () => {
  const stream = await navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia({video: true});
  const video = document.getElementById('video');
  video.srcObject = stream;
})();

...everything works fine on all somewhat modern major browsers, including Safari 26 on the latest ipadOS 26.

However, if you use ipadOS' Safari "Add to Home Screen" option to save it there as a standalone app, the video is rotated 90 degrees:

Note: this wasn't the case in versions of ipadOS prior to ipadOS 26.

For a nicer way to view the problem, I've also described it on StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79769051/wrong-camera-video-orientation-on-website-added-to-home-screen-on-ipados-26

BTW, I also reported this over a week ago at https://feedbackassistant.apple.com/feedback/20298303 Didn't get any reaction, so trying my luck here now.
To me it seems excessively hard to talk to a human at Apple; no matter how valid, clear, exact, concise, helpful and dire your message is.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

rdar://160907068

Thank you for the report! The report does appear perfectly clear, so I honestly wouldn't expect communication before making a fix, unless we cannot reproduce.

[Will Budd]

Thank you!

I understand it's Apple's corporate policy not to acknowledge the feedback/existence of its individual users unless strictly unavoidable, but from the point of view of a software lead of a startup whose entire business model currently depends on the resolution of the reported defect, it's reassuring to know that the provided information has (presumably) reached the desks of those that can fix the relevant code in a reasonable amount of time, rather than being stuck unseen in some digital limbo drowned out in a sea of noise. Because without your acknowledgement I would have no way of knowing which is which, given that the "status" of anything reported with Apple's Feedback Assistant never even seems to change from "Open" to something along the lines of "Yo, we hear ya, and we be lookin into it!".

[Julien]

I confirm that we have the same problem with our web app installed by "Add to home screen" on ipadOS 26. 
All users with this configuration are affected.

[Will Budd]

What's the status of this bug?
Any timeline for a fix, and corresponding Safari (and/or ipadOS) version?

Also, the following bug seems very similar, and has apparently been fixed:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300428
Anyone know how applicable that SafariViewService fix is?

[Will Budd]

This bug seems to have been fixed in ipadOS 26.1 released yesterday.
Whoever you are, thank you!

[Will Budd]

(Or released today, depending on where you live.)