BLOCK PHONE SCREEN FROM VIEWERS DURING MOBILE GAME STREAMS

I was wondering if we could make the mobile streaming while playing a mobile game a bit safer.

I'd like the ability to blind my viewers when playing a mobile game, bc sometimes certain games have certain in game notifications that cant be turned off, and pop up upon game start that show my email or other types of information I may not want shown asking me certain things, including updates for games.

I'd like the ability to push an eyeball indicator which will blind the screen and allow me to do what I need to do without the viewers seeing until im ready.

Clarification
we turn off the notifications for the apps ourselves but in game notifications and in-game request for purchases are a bit different. These typically pop up right at the beginning of gameplay or after you've opened the app.

It'd be really cool to be able to blind my viewers while I'm opening the app, get past those weird pop-ups and then resume showing my screen.

Play In Background claims it will switch to audio only mode when the screen is locked. I have it enabled.

When I have the app open and I lock the screen or swipe down from tho top of the screen to open the iOS notification center, the audio does continue playing.

When I leave the app while a stream is playing, the stream continues playing in a picture-in-picture mode. If I then lock the screen or open the iOS notification center, the playback pauses rather than switching to audio only mode and continuing.

This is especially annoying when pressing play on the lock screen fails to work because the app lost the stream connection or something like that. Then I have to enter my password, unlock the phone, switch to the Twitch app, start the stream again, and lock the phone.

This happens on iPhone 7 on iOS 14.7.1 when using Twitch app 11.5.

Recently the following page on mobile was changed from a minimal layout to big video panes that play the stream just by scrolling past it..... Uhhhhh, so you're FORCING us to see spoilers on streams we may otherwise be avoiding for the time being. For example, Resident Evil 8 just came out, I've waited a long time for this game, and would purposely avoid watching any ads, trailers, reviews, etc. to save myself from spoilers. But just entering your app after the new update just spoiled big chunks of it. So the options to avoid such spoilers are unfollow everyone, delete and stop using the app, or achieve an optional layout as this is very undesirable. Not to mention it unnecessarily adds to data consumption.

When watching vods or clips on the horizontal mobile player, tapping to bring up controls makes the follow, notification, and sub buttons pop up. WHY??

When you're watching live it's not a huge deal because you don't need to use the seek bar. But watching a vod or clip, it's insanely annoying having those buttons take up a third of the screen every time you want to go back a few seconds. If I'm watching a vod from a channel I've been subbed to for a year, why I would want the option to unsub and unfollow them popping up every time I want to go to a different part of the vod?

I don't think anyone would miss it if you made it so that group just never showed up in the horizontal viewer. It'd make watching vods a lot nicer. I would love it if this was changed.

Also, related to that, the areas you can tap to activate the skip back and skip forward buttons are really small. If I want to go back more than ten seconds, 70% of the time I will end up opening or closing chat. The fact that the channel info bar moves everything up a half inch doesn't help. The detection areas for those being bigger, or the chat being toggled with a horizontal swipe could be helpful.

I don't know if this is an oversight on Twitch's behalf, but you must realise that the text size on your apps is tiny. It's too small to be used comfortably by some users.

For many people either with bad eyesight or using their phones and tables to keep up with chat whilst streaming they have to put up with this tiny text that gets in the way of the enjoyment of streaming.

I, amongst others plead with you Twitch, please put larger font sizes in chat for those that need them. Be inclusive to those with less than perfect eyesight. It should be an easy inclusion for you and it would be a well welcomed feature within the community for those that this issue blights.

Please consider adding this feature to the mobile apps. You will make a lot of people happy and be more inclusive to a group of people that are struggling with your current font size.

Thank you for reading my suggestion, I look forwards to your hopefully positive response.

Simon