Intervention only triggers when phone is vertical
Most of the time, I find myself stuck doom-scrolling through YouTube Shorts. However, when I watch a full YouTube video, the intervention ends up being more annoying than helpful.
One way I find this issue resolvable is by detecting whether the phone’s orientation is horizontal or vertical, since Shorts are always viewed vertically.
Current solution is shown below, but it has its limitations:
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frederik
Feb 10, 2025
Hey Henrik! I really like your idea and your solution to enable this feature! I think it’s unfortunately not possible to read the phone’s orientation programmatically within the one sec Shortcut directly, or to get triggered based on phone orientation. The best solution would be to trigger the intervention when you tap on a Short / Reel – but unfortunately there’s currently no technology to enable this on iOS (on Android we are working on a feature that does exactly that!).
So, at least for now, your suggestion would be my best guess to enable this as a workaround.
Silk3724
Mar 30, 2025
I think it would be nice if this could be done through shortcuts, but I believe the current above solution doesn’t work for reinterventions. What I mean by this, is that it would be nice to (via shortcuts) tell OneSec whether the phone is vertical or not, and only trigger a reintervention when this is true. This would also be extremely useful for not blocking YouTube until the video is over (until the phone is vertical)