How do I turn my phone info upside down

[Android Central Question]

my phone messages are turned upside down

 

[B. Diddy]

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[fuzzylumpkin]

Holding your phone in your left hand, grasp the bottom of the phone with your right Hand and rotate it horizontally 180 degrees so that your hand is now at what has become the top of the phone.

 

[spARTacus]

...that only works if one first turns off auto rotation.

 

[spARTacus]

Do these other threads relate?

https://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?t=1054584


https://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?t=1052178

 

[fuzzylumpkin]

...that only works if one first turns off auto rotation.

Gross, why would anyone have that turned on.

Also that assumes that the problem isn't that they were holding their phone upside down in the first place lol.

 

[mustang7757]

my phone messages are turned upside down

Please show a screenshot so we can see what you are , just block personal information.

 

[spARTacus]

Gross, why would anyone have that turned on....

Actually, I do kind of agree with you. I think I rarely benefit from auto rotation and have sometimes gone for long periods with it turned off, because of the annoyance of when it tries to auto rotate when I don't want it to auto rotate. However, always then also end-up cursing at some point later when I physically rotate the phone/tablet to landscape for some purpose and then have to manually turn it back on to get the screen to rotate. Auto rotate is one of those blessings and curses things, in my opinion. I am always reminded of that movie scene from that trailer of I am not sure what the movie was, where they are fighting with the phone/tablet because it keeps auto rotating wrongly.

 

[fuzzylumpkin]

Actually, I do kind of agree with you. I think I rarely benefit from auto rotation and have sometimes gone for long periods with it turned off, because of the annoyance of when it tries to auto rotate when I don't want it to auto rotate. However, always then also end-up cursing at some point later when I physically rotate the phone/tablet to landscape for some purpose and then have to manually turn it back on to get the screen to rotate. Auto rotate is one of those blessings and curses things, in my opinion. I am always reminded of that movie scene from that trailer of I am not sure what the movie was, where they are fighting with the phone/tablet because it keeps auto rotating wrongly.

Do you have a Samsung device? I created a routine that turns auto rotate on when I open certain apps, youtube for example, so it's only on when I would actually need it and my screen doesn't turn sideways when I'm trying to send a message while lying down lol.

 

[spARTacus]

Do you have a Samsung device? I created a routine that turns auto rotate on when I open certain apps, youtube for example, so it's only on when I would actually need it and my screen doesn't turn sideways when I'm trying to send a message while lying down lol.

Yes Samsung. You must mean some Bixby routines?

 

[fuzzylumpkin]

Yes Samsung. You must mean some Bixby routines?

Yeah, although they've dropped the Bixby, I think it was putting people off using features such as routines that it wasn't really tied to.

I don't think ol' Bixby is long for this world.

 

[B. Diddy]

Starting with Android 12, there's an option to use Face Detection to determine if the screen should be auto-rotated. It uses the front-facing camera to determine which way your face is oriented, and therefore which way you probably want the screen oriented. In other words, if you were lying on your side in bed and looking at your phone, it would keep the screen in portrait orientation, rather than flip to landscape.

Read more here: https://www.pocket-lint.com/phones/...-new-auto-rotate-with-face-detection-feature/

The only slightly tricky thing to get to the option is that you have to go to Settings>Display and tap the words "Auto-rotate screen", not the toggle, in order to get to the Face Detection option.

 

[fuzzylumpkin]

Starting with Android 12, there's an option to use Face Detection to determine if the screen should be auto-rotated. It uses the front-facing camera to determine which way your face is oriented, and therefore which way you probably want the screen oriented. In other words, if you were lying on your side in bed and looking at your phone, it would keep the screen in portrait orientation, rather than flip to landscape.

Read more here: https://www.pocket-lint.com/phones/...-new-auto-rotate-with-face-detection-feature/

The only slightly tricky thing to get to the option is that you have to go to Settings>Display and tap the words "Auto-rotate screen", not the toggle, in order to get to the Face Detection option.

That doesn't seem to be a thing in OneUI.

I prefer my way anyway haha

 

[B. Diddy]

That doesn't seem to be a thing in OneUI.

I prefer my way anyway haha

I was initially thinking it was a Pixel exclusive, but all of the articles I read about it said it's a general Android 12 feature. Whether manufacturers implement it is a separate issue [gives stink-eye in Samsung's general direction].

 

[fuzzylumpkin]

unfortunately I only have Google and Samsung devices that run Android 12 or higher. I can't think of any reason that they would leave it out... I'm sure they have a reason, it just probably isn't a very good one lol

 

[B. Diddy]

unfortunately I only have Google and Samsung devices that run Android 12 or higher. I can't think of any reason that they would leave it out... I'm sure they have a reason, it just probably isn't a very good one lol

Wait, you don't see it on your Pixel?

 

[mustang7757]

Starting with Android 12, there's an option to use Face Detection to determine if the screen should be auto-rotated. It uses the front-facing camera to determine which way your face is oriented, and therefore which way you probably want the screen oriented. In other words, if you were lying on your side in bed and looking at your phone, it would keep the screen in portrait orientation, rather than flip to landscape.

Read more here: https://www.pocket-lint.com/phones/...-new-auto-rotate-with-face-detection-feature/

The only slightly tricky thing to get to the option is that you have to go to Settings>Display and tap the words "Auto-rotate screen", not the toggle, in order to get to the Face Detection option.

These are for Samsung rotation and home screen rotation the face was to keep phone on them you have your regular android tilt the device slightly a small phone icon will appear to tap to rotate

 

[fuzzylumpkin]

Wait, you don't see it on your Pixel?

Nah, it's there on my Pixel (if I can stave off the bugs long enough to enable it lol). I just meant I'd like to see which way some of the "also ran" brands went with it.

Do you have this enabled normally? does it impact battery?

 

[B. Diddy]

Nah, it's there on my Pixel (if I can stave off the bugs long enough to enable it lol). I just meant I'd like to see which way some of the "also ran" brands went with it.

Do you have this enabled normally? does it impact battery?

I haven't enabled it, because I rarely stare at my phone while lying in bed. (Oh, I still stare at a device in bed -- it's just usually my Galaxy Tab A7 lite.)

 

[J Dubbs]

These are for Samsung rotation and home screen rotation the face was to keep phone on them you have your regular android tilt the device slightly a small phone icon will appear to tap to rotate View attachment 350814View attachment 350815

I like that button method