I own a Xiaomi 13 Pro 5G. I am a very happy owner since the phone since the phone was launched about 2 years ago. So far I have had absolutely no niggles or issues with both the hardware or the software (touchwood).
My phone got the HyperOS 2.0 upgrade a couple of months ago and another update HyperOS [2.0.100.0](http://2.0.100.0) about few weeks ago. While the phone is working great as ever the upgrade has been great so far, 1 thing that has totally disappointed me is that the video recording zoom slider bar (horizontal) has been replaced by a sort of the wheel slider.
The horizontal zoom slider was so much convenient to use and the video used to zoom pretty neatly. Now the circular wheel type zoom slider is such a pain. When I try to zoom in or out, my finger reaches the end of the screen and there is no more space to slider your finger. Secondly even the zoom is not smooth as it used to be earlier.
I hope the devs look into this and bring back the horizontal zoom slider.
Thats sad. Upgrades are meant to improve the functionality and not make it difficult for the users. I don’t know what was wrong with the slider bar that made them change it.
They have tried to fix something that wasn’t broken!!
It doesn’t happen to me like that, the semicircle is for photos or before recording, when I’m recording the semicircle doesn’t appear and the bar appears
Ok here is a screen recording to show what I meant. When I start recording and zoom, it gives a half wheel kind of thing to zoom in and out. Earlier it had horizontal bar on which I could slide right to zoom in and slide back left to zoom out. That was way more convenient.
In the attached video you will notice that when I have reached 3x zoom, I cannot zoom further cuz my finger has reached the edge and there is no more space to slide. So I have to stop zooming, and start again by placing my finger somewhere in the middle of the zoom wheel. So in the actual video, instead of continuous zoom, there is a break. Hope I am able to explain the issue.
https://i.redd.it/dccx40rt7kte1.gif
On my cell phone the zoom when I am recording is a bar that slides and not a semicircle, the zoom movement is smooth without sudden movements, before recording or when taking photos it is as you said, a semicircle and when I get to the edge of the screen I just lift my finger and put it back in the semicircle to continue zooming in or out the image like when you reach the edge of the mousepad and lift the mouse to continue moving the cursor, I have the hyperos 2.0.6
That is the issue. When you are zooming in, the finger reaches the edge and then you have to stop zooming as you move your finger back to the center. Spoils the video
I understood perfectly what you were saying before the video, what I was telling you is that I still have the horizontal bar and I continue to zoom smoothly (without jumps or stops) and it continues from 1x to 6x while I record
You are not alone, but I guess this is the way it’s going to be…
Oh ok…lucky you. Thanks for confirming. I just hope they resolve this for the India version.
Btw I got another security update yesterday and they have messed up a few things. Most of the apps are not opening smoothly…. When we swipe down the notification/control center window and clear notifications, the control window screen stays and does not automatically swipe back up. Before the update, it used to automatically go back up once I cleared the notifications… What a pain these updates are sometimes