What an terrible idea to cover what you like to watch with annoying buttons, no one asked for this and its just bad

Twitch please give us the control over the use of these buttons. But also having buttons forced visibly in FULLSCREEN is a terrible idea, especially if they are not removable. It is disturbing and I don't enjoy watching twitch streams on my phone anymore. It's sad

Please for the love of God make the icons optional. I hate having them in the corner all the time. I will be using a third party app to watch Twitch streams until this is changed.

Posting this comment again as this thread keeps getting attention:

By the way for whoever comes across this, just delete the app permanently. Frosty works great for iOS and has bttv and 7tv integrations natively. If you miss that you could exit the app and a stream would keep playing in the background automatically (like I did), you can set up an automation on iOS easily. I get an email whenever a comment is posted on here so let me know if you need help with that. You can comment on here and I’ll dm you on twitch (on my desktop lmfao). But yeah, of all the alternatives, I’ve found Frosty the best by far.

These stupid overlays became a thing in like July iirc so I don’t expect them to revert back any time soon (if ever). The developers just progressively make the app worse and worse with each major update (that forced TikTok feed of 2024, LOL) so I’m just not bothering with using an app made by developers who don’t even use or watch twitch.

I finally spoke to an actual human after getting many automated responses and they admitted they did not have the rationalization behind the change, and then that it was supposed to provide an “intuitive and easy way” to show information so I don’t really know wtf is going on. I don’t think they really know what is going on. All I know is that these forced overlay buttons are the least intuitive change they have ever made and it absolutely boggles my mind that anyone could think covering up sections of the screen permanently would ever be a positive thing that people would want.

Props to the dev who’s innovative idea this was for really “thinking outside the box”.

I'm going back to watching streams on YouTube now, the buttons in full screen portrait mode breaks the immersion and is a deal-breaker.

It was gone for a while now its back on both ios and android. Why are you going backwards?

How have they not pushed an update to disable these yet?

What ******* thought it was okay to put icons on the screen? Useless ******* icons covering my screen? Im watching something here. Could you imagine opening up netflix, and they had stupid icons on the screen. The **** is wrong with you idiots..

Get **** off of my screen. You just want someone to butt dial 50 gifted subs when they are in portrait mode.

twitch, are you kidding us?! with the newest ios app update for iphone the symbols are back. i pay monthly for turbo and buy every month subscriptions. i dont accept this stupid icons in full screen. i deinstall the app and cancel my payments. good bye twitch

Please remove this horrible overlay

Please remove the icons on fullscreen. When watching a dark stream it's especially horrible

I can't use the app now bcs I will get screen burn in.

Not working on 27.4, France region too, @wint even with what you are talking about, still the 4 icones present in any configuration
I wouldn’t be surprise if they released A/B testing on this anyway, so might be why people have it and other don’t
I didn’t watch twitch for almost 1 month since I uninstalled the app, and it’s a good thing in the end, youtube is way better at UX and it event push me to take YT premium
But I still cannot understand how anyone at Twitch user experience can think it was a good idea to add a permanent icon in a full screen stream/video

@Zladk0 I'm on 27.4, US region. Let me clarify, chat overlay functionality is still present but can be turned off.

1. Open stream in landscape mode.
2. Open "Options" by touching Cog icon in top right.
3. Uncheck "Chat overlay".

Now double tapping will only switch between "Column Chat" and "No Chat" modes. Previously "No Chat" mode would still overlay 4 icons but not anymore.

@wlnt Not sure what region you’re in but as of 27.4, our delightful user engagement optimizations are still (somehow) present for Canada.

By the way for whoever comes across this, just delete the app permanently. Frosty works pretty good for iOS and has bttv and 7tv integrations natively. If you miss that you could exit the app and a stream would keep playing in the background automatically (like I did), you can set up an automation easily. I get an email whenever a comment is posted on here so let me know if you need help with that. You can comment on here and I’ll dm you on twitch (on my desktop lmfao). But yeah, of all the alternatives, I’ve found Frosty the simplest.

These stupid overlays became a thing in like July iirc so I don’t expect them to revert back any time soon (if ever). The developers just progressively make the app worse and worse with each major update (that forced TikTok feed of 2024, LOL) so I’m just not bothering with using an app made by developers who don’t even use or watch twitch.

I finally spoke to an actual human after getting many automated responses and they admitted they did not have the rationalization behind the change, and then that it was supposed to provide an “intuitive and easy way” to show information so I don’t really know wtf is going on. I don’t think they really know what is going on. All I know is that these forced overlay buttons are the least intuitive change they have ever made and it absolutely boggles my mind that anyone could think covering up sections of the screen permanently would ever be a positive thing that people would want.

This appears to be fixed and icons are hidden now. At least on iOS.

Uninstalled the app because of this.

Uninstalled the app because of this.

I refuse to watch on my iPhone until they are removed.