Apple News landscape mode gone in iOS 12?

Hello there everybody.


Apple has introduced a tab side-bar in the iOS 12 version for iPad of the Apple News app.

In portrait mode (on the iPad) there is the possibility of switching the side bar on and off, I can’t find such an option in landscape mode. It now works pretty much in a similar way as the mail.app.


I find this annoying, I liked landscape mode and the option of a larger layout of the screen when keeping the iPad this way.

Am I missing something here? Perhaps there is a hidden setting that can restore the old behaviour.


Anybody out there can help me on this one?


I am testing a public Beta 3 release on an iPad Air 1/64 GB


Thank you


/P

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I'm a lefty and have this nifty workaround. After opening News in landscape, slide up the Dock and drag a second app to the right third of the screen. This will switch to Split View with News using the left two-thirds of the screen, showing only news items (no channel list). The result is you can scroll the news with your left thumb.


As a bonus, I put the App Store on the right side, so it appears as a single-column list (which I like much better than the messy two-column scheme).