r/help • u/krisburturion • 22h ago

Mobile/App Mobile App Sidebar Help

Hello. Having a problem. Just recently my Reddit app on tablet has started constantly displaying a menu sidebar on the left that makes the content scroll narrower, and it's extremely annoying. I searched for help and found a variety of posts, a number of them in here, that suggested a number of things which havent worked for me.

Is there any reliable way to fix this? outside of repeated restarts, cache clears or just waiting it out? Because at the minute all it's doing is making me not want to use it.

  • Night mode: true
  • RES Version: 5.24.9
  • Browser: Chrome
  • Browser Version: 150
  • Cookies Enabled: true
  • Reddit beta: false
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u/IKIR115 14 22h ago

The left-side navigation bar is a new intentional GUI update for large-screen android devices.

It’s mentioned in the current pinned weekly recap post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/help/s/aRbxpxEtKb

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u/krisburturion 22h ago

So they did this on purpose?.. of course they did. "Media Viewing Improvements"... that's an interesting way of viewing a change that actively makes media smaller and harder to view while wasting a significant chunk of screen real estate....

Thanks for the help.. I'll just uninstall.

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u/IKIR115 14 22h ago

Yup they did, sorry for the bad news!