On a foldable iPhone
A foldable is two screens with one phone behind them, and an app that treats them as the same thing gets both wrong. Unfolded you have nearly a tablet, and a player that still draws phone-sized posters is wasting it. Folded you have a cover screen, and a player that insists on tablet layout there is unreadable. Here is what Tivsy does, and what to look for in anything else. The layout described here arrives in version 1.1.9.
Unfolded, the layout grows up
The inner display is close to an iPad in size, so Tivsy lays itself out like one: larger posters, more of the programme guide visible at once, more of a row before it runs off the edge. This is decided from the size of the window rather than from the name of the device — which is the only way it can be right on hardware that did not exist when the app was written.
Folded, it is a phone again
The cover screen gets the phone layout, because that is what it is. An app that carries the big-screen arrangement onto a narrow cover ends up with two columns the width of a thumb. Folding and unfolding simply resizes the window, and the layout follows it each way.
Folding during a programme does not interrupt it
The fold is a window resize, not a relaunch. Playback continues, the position is kept, and picture in picture keeps running if you were using it. You can close the phone mid-episode, carry on watching on the cover screen, and open it again where you were.
Nothing changes about your provider
The same M3U link, the same Xtream Codes account, the same media server. A foldable needs no special playlist and no second subscription; it is a screen, and the source does not know or care which one it is being drawn on.
Common questions
Do I need a different app for the foldable?
No. One app, one purchase, both screens — and the same library, favourites and resume positions across them.
Will my place be lost when I fold the phone?
No. The fold resizes the window; it does not restart the app or the stream.
Does the inner screen get the iPad layout exactly?
It gets the same large-screen treatment — bigger cards and more guide at once. The proportions differ from an iPad's, so the result is fitted to the screen rather than copied from one.
Is anything held back on the cover screen?
Nothing. It is the full app in the phone layout, which is the right layout for a screen that size.
One player, both screens, and nothing lost in between.