Full screen in landscape mode – Assistant app on iOS/iPhone

quinncom

When using the assistant iOS app in landscape mode, the header and message compose box take up a majority of the screen, leaving very little space to read messages from the assistant. Landscape mode is essential when viewing the tables the LLMs like to generate, but at the moment it's not very useful.

On small screens such as this iPhone 13 mini, the problem is pronounced – only the area circled in red is available for displayed content:

When rotating the iPhone to landscape mode, the app should automatically hide these elements:

Header bar
Scroll to bottom button
Message Compose Box

Maybe show them again via tapping the background or a dedicated ⛶ button.

Ratik

Makes sense. We'll explore improving the landscape behaviour 👍️

quinncom

Thanks @Ratik

If you want to explore a middle ground, here's how chatgpt does it:

instead of a header bar, it uses the liquid glass style buttons aligned far left and right
message compose box collapses to a single line when not typing

But personally I would prefer to just hide all elements in landscape view, since I'll use portrait orientation whenever typing or using actions.

Ratik

@quinncom Makes sense! We'll come up with an approach that works and ship it in an upcoming update.