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You can use most apps in landscape mode and portrait mode. The flexibility of switching between these modes enhances your viewing experience, whether you're gaming or watching a video. However, the screen rotation feature on Android devices might not always work as expected, making it hard to toggle between modes. In this article, we explain how to quickly rotate your device's screen, whether you use a top Samsung phone or a budget Android device.
Weekend poll: Do you leave auto-rotate enabled on your phone?
And on an unrelated note, remember Go90?
Usually, I try to cater Android Police's weekend poll towards something newsy — sometimes, it even turns into a quasi-editorial. But as we continue to skyrocketing towards a barrage of new Google hardware, including its first folding phone and the first Pixel-branded tablet in nearly half a decade, I figured it's as good a time as any to take a breather with a simple question: do you leave auto-rotate enabled on your phone?
Android 12's face-based screen rotation is perfect for bedtime doomscrolling
Where was this feature during all of 2020?
Android 12 is shaping up to be all about the new Material You redesign and theming system. It's a hot look, but it's not all we're getting, and one of the cooler features to land in yesterday's release is the new face-based autorotation for the Pixel 4 and later. Once enabled, it harnesses not just the angle of your phone relative to the ground, but also your face's orientation. That means it considers how you're looking at your phone, not just what the accelerometer says, making it perfect for a bit of bedtime doomscrolling in portrait.