camera: CameraPreview displays landscape images on an mobile web when it is held in a portrait position.

[wjkoh]

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Steps to reproduce

The following steps were replicated on Flutter Web, iPhone 15, iOS 17.2.1, and Mobile Safari.

1. Hold an iPhone 15 in a portrait position (with the front-facing camera up and the charging port down).
2. Open iOS Mobile Safari.
3. Navigate to https://camera-preview-bug.web.app/.
4. Tap on the front-facing camera icon on the bottom left.

Expected results

It is expected that CameraPreview would display portrait images, similar to the iOS camera app.

Actual results

However, CameraPreview currently shows cropped landscape images instead.

Interestingly, when accessing the website with the phone already in a landscape position, the camera preview functions correctly. It even displays valid portrait images when the phone is rotated to a portrait position.

Code sample

Code sample

The official camera example from https://github.com/flutter/packages/tree/main/packages/camera/camera/example was used for the website without any modifications.

Screenshots or Video

Screenshots / Video demonstration

Logs

Logs

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Flutter Doctor output

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[danagbemava-nc]

Reproducible using the plugin example app (and site hosted above).

This is not specific to iOS as I see a similar behavior on android (chrome). This might be related to how the CameraPreview widget is setup. I see that the _wrapInRotatedBox method does not apply to the web.

  Widget _wrapInRotatedBox({required Widget child}) {
    if (kIsWeb || defaultTargetPlatform != TargetPlatform.android) {
      return child;
    }

    return RotatedBox(
      quarterTurns: _getQuarterTurns(),
      child: child,
    );
  }

Labeling for further insight from the team.

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[ditman]

@wjkoh, @danagbemava-nc do you think this might be a duplicate of https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/112280 ?

[wjkoh]

@wjkoh, @danagbemava-nc do you think this might be a duplicate of https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/112280 ?

I don't think so because the behavior changes depending on the device orientation, not the window is full size or not.

[kristoffer-zliide]

@wjkoh: Can you see if this version is better: https://zliide.github.io/camera-web-mobile-orientation/

[wjkoh]

@wjkoh: Can you see if this version is better: https://zliide.github.io/camera-web-mobile-orientation/

Yes, your version works perfectly on my phone. Thanks for the fix!

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This issue was assigned to @ditman but has had no status updates in a long time. To remove any ambiguity about whether the issue is being worked on, the assignee was removed.

[deepak786]

I have the similar issue with video recording in my Flutter web app.

When users are recording videos on their iPhone, the video is automatically rotated sideways as opposed to staying vertical.

[deepak786]

I have the similar issue with video recording in my Flutter web app.

When users are recording videos on their iPhone, the video is automatically rotated sideways as opposed to staying vertical.

My issue is related to https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290223