One of the most important reasons smartphones have taken off to such a massive degree is versatility. If you need a camera, most smartphones will do the trick. On-the-go media consumption? A phone isn ...

If you've ever played a video on your Android device and turned it sideways, only for the video to remain stubbornly in vertical orientation, you may wonder why. But don't panic, as there's most ...

Check if the Portrait Orientation Lock is on; it stops the iPhone screen from rotating. Open Control Center and tap the lock icon to turn off rotation lock if it's active. Some apps don't rotate; test ...

Your Pixel's auto-rotate isn't broken. You just haven't turned on the right one. Buried in your Android display settings is a second auto-rotate mode that uses your Pixel's front-facing camera to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you see a pop-up the first time you do it, select Continue. Each time you press these keys at the same time, the screen rotates ...

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

Screen auto-rotation in Android has always provided a wonky, slow experience that has never matched the fluidity of the same feature on iOS. Blame patents or Google not caring or manufacturers being ...

Auto-rotation is one of the more long-standing features on smartphones today, allowing phones to automatically shift apps and menus between portrait and landscape orientation as the device is turned ...

This article explains how to enable and disable screen locking on devices running iOS 4 and up. It's broken down by iOS version and covers the ways to tell if screen locking is enabled. What if you ...

The quick toggle section of the notification shade is one of the more convenient features on a smartphone today, giving you seamless access to a variety of important settings. And auto-rotate is one ...

Google’s upcoming Android 12 update has plenty of eye-catching features, but don’t let yourself be fooled: sometimes, it’s the smaller, less obvious elements that are most deserving of your attention.

Android 12 Beta 3.1 arrived just yesterday as a small bug fix update, but it also included a little bonus tweak for the auto-rotate animation. This change is so subtle that you might not even notice ...