Galaxy Z Fold 6: How to Fill the Black Bars on YouTube

Quick summary: On the Galaxy Z Fold 6’s inner screen, YouTube videos get black bars in either orientation. Pinch to zoom in the YouTube app removes them, but it cuts off a lot of the video. If you want the whole video filling the whole screen, there’s a trick with Samsung Internet.

Step by step

1. Open Samsung Internet. If you can’t find it, swipe up, tap search and type “internet.”
2. Go to YouTube in the browser and play a video.
3. Tap the full screen button.
4. Tap the button at the bottom of the full screen player to make the video fill the entire display. No black bars, and you see the whole video.
5. To go back, just back out of full screen.

This works with YouTube. It might work with other video sites, but I only tested YouTube.

Fair warning

It works in portrait and landscape, but the video is stretched. I’m not saying it looks great. It looks pretty wild, and Shorts look even stranger. Maybe you’ll love it, though.

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