Fix this 5 critical bugs for iPad

Aloha Support ●

Good day,

Thanks for your feedback. Lets go through each point:

1. Please add links to short videos with large storage for testing purposes.

2. We are working to resolve this behaviour in upcoming releases.

3. We are also working on improvements regarding the liquid glass UI.

4. Fix will be released in 8.8.0 version, already available on beta.

5. We will look into this 🛠️

Kind Regards,

Aloha Team

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Delly ●

This bug has been observed mainly when downloading videos from sites that host short clips (no longer than a minute). One such site (with adult content) is, for example: https://redgifs.com

The original videos play normally on the site. However, if you download any video, for some unknown reason, an additional 1–7 seconds of looping is added at the end. When these final seconds are played, the device gets very hot (presumably because it’s playing at over 700 or 1,000+ fps during those few seconds and the video file has a huge bitrate).

This issue occurs with both vertical and horizontal videos. If you try to download a 59-second video, it will usually download as 1:03 or 1:07 with this glitch at the end, and will be between 1.2 and 2 GB in size.

Even short videos that are as short as 10 seconds are downloaded with this glitch. It’s just that fewer seconds are added at the end, but for example, even a 10-second video, if you download it, will usually weigh between 70 and 200 MB – which is a lot.

If I use your new “trimming” feature to remove the glitchy part at the end of the video – the part that fast-forwards – the newly created file will be the correct size. After that, you can delete the old glitchy file and keep only the modified one. Right now, this is the only workaround, but it definitely shouldn’t work this way.

Until approx ~ March 17, 2025, everything worked correctly, and any files downloaded from this and other sites were bug-free from the start and had the correct file size. It's been a very long time, and I'm surprised this issue still hasn't been fixed.

Just as an example of videos with bugs that don't contain particularly explicit content:

1) https://api.redgifs.com/v2/gifs/unusualnimblefairybluebird/hd.m3u8 ( video link: https://media.redgifs.com/UnusualNimbleFairybluebird.m4s ) — 10 sec video ; downloaded file size 74,2 MB

2) https://api.redgifs.com/v2/gifs/orderlyidealisticmillipede/hd.m3u8 ( video link: https://media.redgifs.com/OrderlyIdealisticMillipede.m4s ) — 35 sec video ; downloaded file size 393,1 MB

3) https://api.redgifs.com/v2/gifs/whisperedfloweryalaskanhusky/hd.m3u8 ( video link: https://media.redgifs.com/WhisperedFloweryAlaskanhusky.m4s ) — 1:07 min video ; downloaded file size 1,3 GB

4) https://api.redgifs.com/v2/gifs/detailedlinenfox/hd.m3u8 ( video link: https://media.redgifs.com/DetailedLinenFox.m4s ) — 57 sec video ; downloaded file size 983,7 MB

But you can download almost any video yourself from the website's homepage (especially ones that are 50 seconds or 1 minute long). Anything downloaded via an iPad will have this bug.

P.S. As far as i remember, there were other sites with this issue that weren't adult-oriented but had the same bug causing downloaded files to be unreasonably large. But this is the first one that came to mind and that I was able to test quickly. I hope this information is enough for you to fix it.

This bug has been observed mainly when downloading videos from sites that host short clips (no longer than a minute). One such site (with adult content) is, for example: https://redgifs.com

The original videos play normally on the site. However, if you download any video, for some unknown reason, an additional 1–7 seconds of looping is added at the end. When these final seconds are played, the device gets very hot (presumably because it’s playing at over 700 or 1,000+ fps during those few seconds and the video file has a huge bitrate).

This issue occurs with both vertical and horizontal videos. If you try to download a 59-second video, it will usually download as 1:03 or 1:07 with this glitch at the end, and will be between 1.2 and 2 GB in size.

Even short videos that are as short as 10 seconds are downloaded with this glitch. It’s just that fewer seconds are added at the end, but for example, even a 10-second video, if you download it, will usually weigh between 70 and 200 MB – which is a lot.

If I use your new “trimming” feature to remove the glitchy part at the end of the video – the part that fast-forwards – the newly created file will be the correct size. After that, you can delete the old glitchy file and keep only the modified one. Right now, this is the only workaround, but it definitely shouldn’t work this way.

Until approx ~ March 17, 2025, everything worked correctly, and any files downloaded from this and other sites were bug-free from the start and had the correct file size. It's been a very long time, and I'm surprised this issue still hasn't been fixed.

Just as an example of videos with bugs that don't contain particularly explicit content:

1) https://api.redgifs.com/v2/gifs/unusualnimblefairybluebird/hd.m3u8 ( video link: https://media.redgifs.com/UnusualNimbleFairybluebird.m4s ) — 10 sec video ; downloaded file size 74,2 MB

2) https://api.redgifs.com/v2/gifs/orderlyidealisticmillipede/hd.m3u8 ( video link: https://media.redgifs.com/OrderlyIdealisticMillipede.m4s ) — 35 sec video ; downloaded file size 393,1 MB

3) https://api.redgifs.com/v2/gifs/whisperedfloweryalaskanhusky/hd.m3u8 ( video link: https://media.redgifs.com/WhisperedFloweryAlaskanhusky.m4s ) — 1:07 min video ; downloaded file size 1,3 GB

4) https://api.redgifs.com/v2/gifs/detailedlinenfox/hd.m3u8 ( video link: https://media.redgifs.com/DetailedLinenFox.m4s ) — 57 sec video ; downloaded file size 983,7 MB

But you can download almost any video yourself from the website's homepage (especially ones that are 50 seconds or 1 minute long). Anything downloaded via an iPad will have this bug.

P.S. As far as i remember, there were other sites with this issue that weren't adult-oriented but had the same bug causing downloaded files to be unreasonably large. But this is the first one that came to mind and that I was able to test quickly. I hope this information is enough for you to fix it.

Delly ●

Also, as an example, I'm attaching the MediaInfo details (check jpg file on this post) for another random video file that was downloaded via your browser on an iPad.

Video has a resolution of 1920x1080p. and is about 1 minute long.

The original file should be no larger than ~100 MB, run at 50 fps, and have a bitrate of no more than 8,000–12,000 kbps.

But after downloading, it’s ~1.8 GB (!) in size, runs at ~220,000 kbps (!), and has a frame rate of 1,380 fps (!)

And this issue is observed with a huge number of downloads.

Files:

Delly ●

A new version 8.8.0 has been released. I tested it on my iPad Pro M5. But bug with large file sizes during uploads still hasn't been fixed (I've attached a screenshot from the “Media” upload folder).

I also remembered another annoying bug: when you open someone’s profile on the aforementioned site > expand the video to full page \ or just scroll through the full page video feed - after about ~21–30+ scrolls down, if you tap “Play” on any video (to play it via Aloha media player) — you always get a black screen instead of the video. (I’ve also attached a screenshot of this issue.) Refreshing the page helps, but the problem persists againg and again. As far as I recall, there were other sites where a similar situation occurred.

Have you already reproduced the main issue described in point 1? This is one of the most critical bugs that needs to be fixed as soon as possible. The file sizes of these short videos are so large that downloading just a few of them can quickly fill up the entire iPad’s storage.

Files:

Delly ●

And, i found one more another very annoying bug on iPad version Aloha Browser (v8.8.0): if I have several tabs open and videos are playing or two live streams are running simultaneously across them, the mini player (or even the full-screen player) constantly pauses, no matter which tab I’m on. It doesn’t matter if I’m on a website or just watching downloaded videos from the “Files > Media” folder. Every 2–5 seconds after the any video starts playing - it pauses. (because another video from a different tab starts playing in the background). If I press “play,” it stops again after a few seconds, and the cycle repeats.

And I constantly see the sound indicators on the page tabs (the speaker icon) - they keep appearing and disappearing. In particular, the speaker icon appears and disappears on an inactive tab.

This didn’t happen before (in older versions of Aloha from 2025 and earlier), and if I switched to another page, it wouldn’t play in the background (on an inactive tab). Now, however, simultaneous playback from two or more tabs causes them to overlap, resulting in a persistent bug with endless playback and pausing.

Please fix this, including the most critical bug mentioned in point 1. It’s been several days since my last question: “Were you able to reproduce the described issue?”, and more than 10+ days since I posted a detailed description with all the details and screenshots of all errors. But I still haven’t received a response from technical support (even though support has been responding to other people in a related thread over the past few days).

Files:

Aloha Support ●

Thanks for all the additional information, our QA team is investigating it and we will get back to you as soon as we can! 🛠️

Aloha Support ●

Hi again! We have created a task for the most critical bag in no1.

Please also answer the following:

(№7)Which exact sites were the two live streams on (RedGifs Live, Twitch, YouTube Live, other)?
(№5)One example URL where the cropped-page bug happened, and roughly how often does it occur?
(№6)You mentioned other sites had the black-screen issue — which ones do you remember?
(№6, №7)Do these bugs happen with Aloha VPN on, off, or both? Wi-Fi or cellular?
Do you use Private tabs for these sessions? Any downloads running in the background when the bugs appear?

Thanks,

Delly ●

Unfortunately, as I mentioned earlier, I won't be able to all list the websites (because it was a long time ago, i didn’t write them, and don’t remember all of them).

But from what I do remember, and where the problem definitely exists:

1. If you go to https://redgifs.com and download absolutely any video, in 90% of cases it will end up being unreasonably large after downloading. ~30-second videos usually after downloading have size in Media folder 500–800 MB, or ~1-minute videos have size 1.3–2 GB. That's an incredible huge size.

The "cropped-page" bug for example was also observed on this RedGifs website.

2. When it comes to live-streaming sites, here’s one where there’s definitely an issue with overlapping streams and a bug where the player constantly switches between playing and pausing every few seconds if you have multiple tabs open, website which I remember that definitely has this bug: https://bongacams.com/ (if it doesn't let you into the site and asks you to confirm your age, you need connect example from Italy IP, or try another country).

How to reproduce the issue: Step one – open a single tab and start playing a any stream on this website. Step two – open a second tab on the same website and start another any stream. After that, the video will start playing and stopping repeatedly, and you’ll see the speaker icon (indicating audio playback) on the second tab appear and disappear constantly (every ~2–5–10 seconds).

I’ll also answer the remaining questions:

- Connect always via Wi-Fi

- I don't use the built-in VPN into the browser. But I do have several other paid third-party VPN services. I’ve tried using different locations and connecting to different servers, tried different VPN apps, and different protocols - none of this has any effect on these two issues. It doesn’t matter whether the VPN is connected or disconnected, which country is selected, which VPN is used, or which protocol is used - on RedGifs when downloading videos always have very huge size, and on Bongacams stream site if two or more tabs are open have play\pause bug.

- I’ve also tried standard mode and “private mode” (incognito tabs). It makes no difference. I tried download one video at a time, and also tried downloading several videos at once. In both cases, the downloaded videos have very large file sizes, and when playing stream via two and more tabs have this bug with play\pause.

P.S. This situation gives rise to two significant problems:

First - iPad’s storage fill up very quickly when downloading videos due to their unreasonably large size;

Second - when watching these glitchy videos (when the glitchy ending of the downloaded videos plays - where everything plays back very quickly at 1,300 fps usually the last 1–5 seconds of the video). it really fast destroys the iPad’s battery life, since the iPad starts to heat up sharply during those 1–5 seconds (because it has to playback the end of the downloaded video in real time during those few seconds at a bitrate of 200,000 kbit/s and 1,300 fps). Especially if watch a lot of such buggy downloaded videos.

There are currently only two workarounds: either trim the end ~few seconds of the video (which will make the new file with normal size) > after that delete old buggy video with huge size > and repeat this process for each video. Or export the all buggy videos to a PC, compress it (using HandBrake for example) to a normal size, fps, and bitrate, and then transfer it back to the iPad > Files > Aloha – but this is a huge "pain" and not a solution.

So this needs to be fixed. I hope you can fix it. This bug has been around for over a year. As I mentioned earlier, if this helps: this issue was first noticed around March 17, 2025 year - it was from that point on (or around that time) that downloading videos from this and some other sites began to take up an unreasonably large amount of space. Everything was fine before that. Perhaps at that time some other algorithms \ codecs \ writing applications were used during the download, and you should revert to them (or fix the current ones).

And this issues wasn't just noticed with one or two websites (with adult content). There were several more with entertainment content. Unfortunately, I don't remember them all, it was a long time ago. But the ones I remember that are 100% affected by these issues are the ones - I've provided links to above. If you fix this bugs on these websites, I think the problem will be resolved everywhere.

Unfortunately, as I mentioned earlier, I won't be able to all list the websites (because it was a long time ago, i didn’t write them, and don’t remember all of them).

But from what I do remember, and where the problem definitely exists:

1. If you go to https://redgifs.com and download absolutely any video, in 90% of cases it will end up being unreasonably large after downloading. ~30-second videos usually after downloading have size in Media folder 500–800 MB, or ~1-minute videos have size 1.3–2 GB. That's an incredible huge size.

The "cropped-page" bug for example was also observed on this RedGifs website.

2. When it comes to live-streaming sites, here’s one where there’s definitely an issue with overlapping streams and a bug where the player constantly switches between playing and pausing every few seconds if you have multiple tabs open, website which I remember that definitely has this bug: https://bongacams.com/ (if it doesn't let you into the site and asks you to confirm your age, you need connect example from Italy IP, or try another country).

How to reproduce the issue: Step one – open a single tab and start playing a any stream on this website. Step two – open a second tab on the same website and start another any stream. After that, the video will start playing and stopping repeatedly, and you’ll see the speaker icon (indicating audio playback) on the second tab appear and disappear constantly (every ~2–5–10 seconds).

I’ll also answer the remaining questions:

- Connect always via Wi-Fi

- I don't use the built-in VPN into the browser. But I do have several other paid third-party VPN services. I’ve tried using different locations and connecting to different servers, tried different VPN apps, and different protocols - none of this has any effect on these two issues. It doesn’t matter whether the VPN is connected or disconnected, which country is selected, which VPN is used, or which protocol is used - on RedGifs when downloading videos always have very huge size, and on Bongacams stream site if two or more tabs are open have play\pause bug.

- I’ve also tried standard mode and “private mode” (incognito tabs). It makes no difference. I tried download one video at a time, and also tried downloading several videos at once. In both cases, the downloaded videos have very large file sizes, and when playing stream via two and more tabs have this bug with play\pause.

P.S. This situation gives rise to two significant problems:

First - iPad’s storage fill up very quickly when downloading videos due to their unreasonably large size;

Second - when watching these glitchy videos (when the glitchy ending of the downloaded videos plays - where everything plays back very quickly at 1,300 fps usually the last 1–5 seconds of the video). it really fast destroys the iPad’s battery life, since the iPad starts to heat up sharply during those 1–5 seconds (because it has to playback the end of the downloaded video in real time during those few seconds at a bitrate of 200,000 kbit/s and 1,300 fps). Especially if watch a lot of such buggy downloaded videos.

There are currently only two workarounds: either trim the end ~few seconds of the video (which will make the new file with normal size) > after that delete old buggy video with huge size > and repeat this process for each video. Or export the all buggy videos to a PC, compress it (using HandBrake for example) to a normal size, fps, and bitrate, and then transfer it back to the iPad > Files > Aloha – but this is a huge "pain" and not a solution.

So this needs to be fixed. I hope you can fix it. This bug has been around for over a year. As I mentioned earlier, if this helps: this issue was first noticed around March 17, 2025 year - it was from that point on (or around that time) that downloading videos from this and some other sites began to take up an unreasonably large amount of space. Everything was fine before that. Perhaps at that time some other algorithms \ codecs \ writing applications were used during the download, and you should revert to them (or fix the current ones).

And this issues wasn't just noticed with one or two websites (with adult content). There were several more with entertainment content. Unfortunately, I don't remember them all, it was a long time ago. But the ones I remember that are 100% affected by these issues are the ones - I've provided links to above. If you fix this bugs on these websites, I think the problem will be resolved everywhere.

Delly ●

And about "cropped-page" bug. I forgot to answer the question: "Roughly how often does it occur?"

– This happened when I installed Aloha Browser 8.7.0, approx after about ~7-10 minutes of browsing on RedGifs site, and another one (i don't remember link). But by the way, it's maybe concretely this issue was fixed after updating to Aloha 8.8.0 (I'm not 100% sure). But at least in a quick test right now, I don't see the page cropping-bug like before. If I see this bug again - I'll let you know.

And after updating to version 8.8.0, iPad also seems to run less hot during normal daily browser use - which is also good.

In v8.8.0 I also notice that the brightness and volume indicators in the full-screen media player have been moved closer to the edges - right now it's looks better. But in any case, I’d like to be able to hide those two indicator line bars entirely if I disable brightness and volume controls through the settings in media player Aloha.

But all the other issues still persist.

UPDATE: “cropped-page” bug is still present in v8.8.0. As soon as I minimized the Aloha Browser (without closing it completely) and then reopened it a couple of minutes later, the website started displaying cropped in both portrait and landscape orientations. So this issue still hasn't been fixed in v8.8.0.

In other words, to reproduce this issue, it seems you need to: open the website (for example RedGifs) > minimize the app (without full closing, just minimize) > and then, after a short pause, open Aloha Browser app again - you will see a cropped page. I tried this a few times - I was able to reproduce the bug consistently. And refreshing the page doesn't solve this bug. You need to either close the browser completely or close the tab > open new tab > and open site again - then the page will display normally again. But if you minimize and then expand the Aloha Browser, in 80-90% chance - page will cropped again.

Another important nuance (maybe this will help): I use my iPad Pro M5 in "Full Screen Apps" mode. Settings> Multitasking & Gestures > Full Screen Apps (*Always use apps fullscreen and swipe Home to swith between them)

And about "cropped-page" bug. I forgot to answer the question: "Roughly how often does it occur?"

– This happened when I installed Aloha Browser 8.7.0, approx after about ~7-10 minutes of browsing on RedGifs site, and another one (i don't remember link). But by the way, it's maybe concretely this issue was fixed after updating to Aloha 8.8.0 (I'm not 100% sure). But at least in a quick test right now, I don't see the page cropping-bug like before. If I see this bug again - I'll let you know.

And after updating to version 8.8.0, iPad also seems to run less hot during normal daily browser use - which is also good.

In v8.8.0 I also notice that the brightness and volume indicators in the full-screen media player have been moved closer to the edges - right now it's looks better. But in any case, I’d like to be able to hide those two indicator line bars entirely if I disable brightness and volume controls through the settings in media player Aloha.

But all the other issues still persist.

UPDATE: “cropped-page” bug is still present in v8.8.0. As soon as I minimized the Aloha Browser (without closing it completely) and then reopened it a couple of minutes later, the website started displaying cropped in both portrait and landscape orientations. So this issue still hasn't been fixed in v8.8.0.

In other words, to reproduce this issue, it seems you need to: open the website (for example RedGifs) > minimize the app (without full closing, just minimize) > and then, after a short pause, open Aloha Browser app again - you will see a cropped page. I tried this a few times - I was able to reproduce the bug consistently. And refreshing the page doesn't solve this bug. You need to either close the browser completely or close the tab > open new tab > and open site again - then the page will display normally again. But if you minimize and then expand the Aloha Browser, in 80-90% chance - page will cropped again.

Another important nuance (maybe this will help): I use my iPad Pro M5 in "Full Screen Apps" mode. Settings> Multitasking & Gestures > Full Screen Apps (*Always use apps fullscreen and swipe Home to swith between them)

Aloha Support ●

Thanks for all the detail, we appreciate it! Task regarding live streams has been created, we will resolve all the issues in upcoming releases 🛠️

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