Fix this 5 critical bugs for iPad

Hello. I’ve been an active user of the Aloha Browser for iPad since around 2017.

I used to stick with an older version of Aloha (released in 2025) for a long time. But I recently updated your browser to the very latest version, 8.7.0, and ran into a number of issues.

I currently have the latest iPad Pro M5 (13"). iPadOS 26.2. So, here are the issues:

1. Starting around March 17, 2025 (back when I still had an older iPad Pro), a lot of videos started taking up a huge amount of space when downloaded via Aloha Browser. For example, a single 30-second MP4 video could be as large as 600–800 MB, and a one 1-minute video could be as large as 1.8–2 GB. This is clearly a bug. I checked the media info for these files and found that their bitrate reached as high as 170,000 Mbit/s, and their fps was ~500–800 or 1,000+ frames per second. During playback, these videos play normally (as if they were at 24, 30 or 60 fps), but the last 2–5 seconds always replay very, very quickly.

I thought you’d fixed this issue over the past year or so. But after downloading the latest version 8.7.0 of Aloha Browser on my new iPad Pro, I discovered that the problem still persists! Now you’ve added a trimming feature. I tested it: if i trim a buggy video file at the very end (where the last 3–5 seconds play back very quickly), then, for example, the size of the new file containing the same 30-second video is no longer ~680 MB, but ~35 MB (as it should be).

This critical bug started with the version of Aloha Browser for iPad released around ~March 17 2025 year and later (until this moment). Before that, everything was fine, and there were no such bugs causing downloaded video files to be excessively large.

Please fix this!

2. When I updated to the new 2026 version of Aloha (v 8.7.0), I noticed one very annoying thing: I have always used, and continue to use the player with a setting that disables the ability to adjust screen brightness and audio volume while watching any video in full-screen mode. But even when this option is disabled, vertical indicators now constantly appear whenever I fast-forward or pause, which are extremely distracting and annoying. I’ve attached a screenshot to this topic showing exactly what I mean. Please make sure these indicators are not displayed. Or at least have them not appear if brightness and volume controls are turned off in the player settings. It’s just awful and very distracting.

3. Also, please remove the “liquid glass” visual design from the main Play, Pause, Forward, and Back buttons (in full-screen mode player). In many cases, these visual buttons are displayed incorrectly with a visual glitch (I’ve also attached a photo to this topic showing what it looks like). Or at least provide an option somewhere in the settings to choose the old display without the unnecessary visual “noise” around the buttons. This is also very annoying. And I haven’t found any settings right now to disable this and revert to how it was before.

4. Prior to this, I had been using Aloha version 7.14.0 for quite some time, and as soon as I updated to the latest version 8.7.0, I noticed that my iPad Pro M5 started to overheat much more and drain its battery faster when using the browser in various scenarios. The device also got hotter while using the browser. This is most likely due to design changes and the increased load on rendering the liquid glass buttons (especially in the full-screen player). Therefore, please fix this. As I mentioned earlier, I’d like to be able to disable the liquid glass effect on the full screen player buttons.

5. I’ve also encountered a problem: at random times on various websites, if I’m browsing and scrolling through a page in portrait mode and then rotate the tablet to landscape orientation, the entire page no longer fills the screen and has black bars at the bottom. Reloading the page doesn’t help. I have to close and reopen the app manually. If I’m not mistaken, a similar issue occurred in the older 7.14.0 version, but less frequently, and reloading the page solved the problem back then. In version 8.7.0 of Aloha Browser for iPad, this bug has started to occur more often, and as I mentioned earlier, even after refreshing, the page remains visually cropped. I’ve tried changing how the page loads and reloading it by switching between “Desktop Version” and “Mobile Version” - but it makes no difference. I also added screenshots showing this bug to this topic.