There are two types of people: those who have screen rotation enabled on their mobile and those who do not. In this second group, where I include myself, there are two other types: those who temporarily reactivate the rotation when they want to rotate the screen and those who know of the existence of the spin button.
And rectangle with arrows which only appears a few seconds after switching the phone from portrait to landscape, sometimes slightly animated. Don’t ignore it, it can save you several extra touches so you can rotate the screen only when you want.
The button to turn as you wish
Screen rotation on my Android phone is disabled most of the time, which has the advantage that it doesn’t rotate constantly if I use the phone while lying down and change positions, even if d ‘on the other hand, there are other times when I have to rotate the screen to, for example, see a photo taken in landscape in all its splendor.
With screen rotation disabled, if your phone is in landscape mode and you want to view a photo in landscape (and the Gallery app doesn’t rotate ignoring system settings), you have two options. There are some who still follow activate rotation, rotate mobile and deactivate it again, then repeat the steps and return the mobile phone vertically with rotation disabled.
For everyone, Android has long offered a better solution: the floating button to rotate the screen. Appears for a few seconds once the mobile sensors detect that you have turned the mobile, in the lower right corner and in the shape of a rectangle with arrows. It only appears if the application you are using at the moment supports rotation and if you have disabled automatic screen rotation in the mobile settings.
If you use the Android navigation bar (buttons) instead of gesture navigation, the rotate button integrates into the navigation bar. Otherwise, it appears as a floating button.
The idea is this: if you have screen rotation turned off, you are using your phone vertically and you want to switch to horizontal, you rotate your phone and the button appears. When you press the button, the screen rotates
This is especially useful for those, like me, who keep screen rotation disabled the vast majority of the time and Just change them from time to time. If your phone frequently switches between portrait and landscape modes, you may find it more convenient to keep the rotation active. In this case, Google has been working for some time on new features to improve the operation of the system, such as the automatic rotation of Android 12, which uses the mobile camera.
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