The live view

Gestures, the HUD button row, Stay on vs Auto-hide chrome, orientation behavior, and what the waiting and transmit-paused states mean.

The live view is the streaming screen: the program monitor, full-bleed, with a HUD floating over it. Tap the picture to hide the HUD and get a clean feed; tap again to bring it back.

Gestures

All four gestures work in every layout mode.

Gesture	Behavior
Single tap	Toggles the HUD and the iOS status bar together. Closes any open panel.
Double tap	Zooms to 2.5× (or your Max zoom, whichever is lower), centered on the point you tapped. Double-tap again to return to fit.
Pinch	Zooms between 1× and your Max zoom setting, anchored between your fingers, with a bounce past either end.
Drag	Pans while zoomed, with momentum and rubber-banding at the edges.

The single tap deliberately waits for the double-tap window to expire before firing, so a zoom never flashes the HUD on its way through.

Max zoom is set in the settings panel and is shared with Preview from Photos or Files.

The pinch-zoom ceiling is 4× on the free tier and up to 30× on Pro. The slider draws the whole scale on both tiers — the locked span is dimmed rather than hidden, and tapping it opens the upgrade options. See Free vs Pro.

The HUD button row

Left to right:

Button	Action
House	Disconnects and returns to the Home screen.
Speaker	Mute toggle on Pro; a 10-second sample on the free tier; the Turn on audio guide when the host has audio switched off. See Audio.
Down-arrow tray	Saves the current frame to Photos. See Save a frame.
Grid	Opens the layout picker. See Layouts and safe zones.
Resolution chip	Shows the active Resolution Limit as text — 720p, Src for Source — and opens the rung menu. See Encoding settings.
Gear	Opens the settings panel.

Live view with the HUD visible: house button at the left, then speaker, save, layout, resolution chip and gear at the right, and the transport bar at the bottom

The house button sits alone on the left; the other five are grouped at the right so the whole row reads as one glass surface.

The speaker and resolution chip can carry a badge drawn on top of the glass: a lock when the control is Pro-gated, or a countdown pill during a free-tier audio sample.

Below the button row, the stats strip appears when Show stats is on. At the bottom sits the transport bar.

Chrome modes

Settings → HUD → Controls has two positions:

Stay on — the default. The HUD has no timer. It stays up until you tap the picture.
Auto-hide — the HUD additionally fades on a timer. Hide after sets the delay, 2 to 15 seconds, default 4.

Stay on is the default because a phone parked beside a grading suite is not a consumer video player: a timer means every transport action costs two taps, one to summon the bar and one to press play.

In both modes, a tap on the picture toggles the HUD. Switching modes never hides the panel you are touching — the HUD is forced visible on the change, and only the timer differs.

When Auto-hide will not fire

The fade is suppressed entirely — not lengthened — in four cases:

A panel is open. The settings panel, the layout picker, and the caption editor all hold the HUD up.
Playback is parked. No fade while the timeline is paused. Pausing on a graded still and having the transport bar evaporate is exactly the wrong moment for it. If the plugin is too old to report play state, the app treats the stream as playing.
VoiceOver is running.
Switch Control is running.

The last two are accessibility exceptions, and they are absolute: the timer is never armed at all. Chrome that vanishes on a wall clock is a trap for an assistive technology that walks the interface one element at a time. Turning VoiceOver or Switch Control on mid-stream cancels an already-armed fade; turning it back off re-arms.

Every HUD interaction — a transport press, a mute tap, a layout choice, a resolution pick — restarts the timer.

One known gap in Auto-hide mode: the resolution chip and the encoder, codec, and GOP dropdowns are system menus, which give the app no "menu opened" callback. The timer keeps running while one of those dropdowns is open. Picking a value restarts it.

The status bar

The iOS status bar rides with the HUD: visible when the HUD is up, gone when it fades, so the picture is genuinely full-bleed with the chrome hidden.

The same stream with the HUD and status bar hidden, showing only the picture

Tapping the picture in either chrome mode gets you to this — an unobstructed reference image is the one thing a monitor has to be able to show.

Orientation

The app runs in portrait and both landscape orientations.

Landscape suppresses the platform layouts. TikTok, Reels, Shorts, and the Universal Safe Zone are authored for a portrait phone and would sit wrong on a rotated screen, so rotating to landscape drops back to a plain full-bounds picture and the Layout button disappears from the HUD. Your layout choice is not forgotten — it comes straight back when you rotate to portrait.

Waiting for video

Connected, paired, but no frame has decoded yet. After a 1.6-second grace period — long enough that a normal fast connect never flashes it — an overlay appears with the host app's badge, a spinner, and:

Connected to Premiere Waiting for video — open or play a comp/sequence in Premiere.

It offers Back, which disconnects, and Still nothing? Open the setup guide, which opens the Re-enable Transmit walkthrough. The overlay removes itself the instant the first frame arrives.

Waiting-for-video overlay showing the After Effects badge, a spinner, and the Back and setup-guide buttons

This is the normal state for After Effects with no composition previewing, and for Premiere Pro parked on an empty Program Monitor. See No picture.

The transmit-paused pill

Once at least one frame has arrived, a different signal takes over. If the plugin reports that it has stopped feeding the device, a pill appears near the top of the screen — a pause glyph, the words Premiere isn't sending frames, and a question mark:

Capsule pill near the top of the live view reading Premiere isn't sending frames

The picture underneath is the last frame the host sent, and the session stays connected.

This is deliberately not an error and never tears the session down. Premiere Pro raises it every time it is minimized on a parked playhead — and someone studying a graded still on their phone for five minutes is doing exactly what this product is for. The pill sits above the HUD, so it survives the auto-hide.

Tap it to open the Re-enable Transmit guide, which walks through the case where Transmit really is switched off: ticking PreviewMonitor's Video Stream and Audio Stream under Video Device, and leaving Disable video output when in the background unchecked.

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