Fullscreen, rotate, zoom and pan reels — for landscape 16:9 videos that do not fit the vertical player.
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124
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Version
1.0.0
updated 22 Aug 2026
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About Reel Rotate — Fullscreen, Rotate & Zoom for Instagram
Some reels are shot in landscape. Instagram still plays them in a tall vertical player, so a 16:9
video ends up as a thin strip across the middle of your screen — or gets cropped so you only ever
see the middle third of the picture. Worse, some creators upload landscape footage sideways, and
there is no way to turn it the right way up.
Reel Rotate adds the controls to fix that yourself, on the reel you are watching.
WHAT IT DOES
• True fullscreen — one click, or F, and the reel fills the whole screen with the browser chrome
out of the way. The whole 16:9 frame is shown, not a cropped slice of it.
• Rotate — 90° at a time, or anywhere between -180° and 180° on a slider.
• Zoom to fit after rotating — straighten a sideways reel and it automatically scales up to fill
the screen. The amount is worked out from your display and the video, so it is right on any
monitor.
• Zoom and pan — up to 6×, drag the video to move around it. Handy for reading small text.
• Fit modes — show the whole frame, fill the screen and crop, or stretch.
• Mirror — flip the picture horizontally.
• It follows you — scroll to the next reel and the controls come with it.
KEYBOARD
F fullscreen on / off
R rotate 90° right (Shift+R for left)
+ / - zoom in / out Alt+wheel zoom at the pointer
drag pan the picture
C cycle fit mode
X mirror
0 reset everything
Esc leave fullscreen
Instagram's own shortcuts are untouched, and none of these fire while you are typing a comment or using search.