Roon not working in portrait mode on iPad Pro 11

[evilmaniac]

Core Machine (Operating system/System info/Roon build number)

Debian/Roon 1.6 416
iOS/12.4.1/Roon Remote 1.6 416

Description Of Issue

Roon not working in portrait mode on iPad Pro [Solved - Update Roon to 1.6]

Exactly that, except no matter what I do it is always in landscape. The main purpose of this iPad was to act as a remote and not have a steering wheel simulator whenever I want to switch between apps.

[Jim_F]

It’s always landscape on my iPad Mini 4.

[Nepherte (Bart Verhoeven)]

I believe portrait mode is only supported on the ipad pro 12.9".

[Krutsch (Recovering Audiophile & Snake-oil Addict)]

@Nepherte

portrait mode is only supported on the ipad pro 12.9".

Which is crazy… why is that?

[Nepherte (Bart Verhoeven)]

Something to do with the resolution of the ipad pro 11" not accommodating the real estate roon currently requires. For a more in depth answer, there are some topics on the forum that go in further detail.

[Jim_F]

They probably determined it’s just too narrow on anything smaller and the resolution would be too small.

[dylan (Dylan Caudill)]

Hi @evilmaniac,

Please see this post from Danny about this:

New ipad pro 10.5 inch support

it wont support portrait… 2224-by-1668 resolution at 264 pixels per inch (ppi) vs 2732-by-2048 resolution at 264 pixels per inch (ppi) the 10.5" is going to be 2x retina, just like the 12.9" (which you can tell by the ppi). so unless you do non-power-of-2-scaling, that gives you a ppi adjusted resolution of 1112-by-834, which is not enough to do portrait with the current UI design. the 12.9" ends up with 1366-by-1024, which is enough. all that said, we are in the middle of a new Roon UI…