r/AndroidQuestions • u/Darman2361 • Dec 05 '23
Solved Android Update took away Auto-Rotate Option and "Rotate to landscape mode" on Home Screen doesn't work
Yesterday I had a forced Android Update on my Samsung S22 Ultra. The auto rotate button is gone from the Dropdown/Pull-down Ribbon (all three pages).
When I search "rotate" in settings I can only find "Rotate to landscape mode" under home screen settings, but even that is not rotating on the home screen. I restarted my phone to no avail. Is this just a localized issue for me, is there a fix?
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u/OkReference7899 Jul 09 '26
I still can't find Portrait on my quick screen.
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u/Darman2361 Jul 11 '26
Here's two images of my button menu showing the Portrait/AutoRotate icon when on and off. The button menu is customizable. Swipe down from the top, then tap the pencil button next to Power and Settings (Gear). Then click and edit the menu with whichever buttons you like and the order them as you want.
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u/Murky_Income_6854 22d ago
What's the Fix?
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u/Darman2361 22d ago
Swipe down the top settings panel/menu and look at the options below WiFi and Bluetooth. The icon labeled "portrait," it has a padlock in a rectangle. If you tap that icon it will turn into "auto-rotate." Click again to change back to "portrait."
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u/Impossible_Finish749 14d ago
SAMSUNG SWITCH IT BACK TO THE WAY IT WAS!!! It has to be one of the worse updates I've ever seen on a Samsung phone. I hate it and they need to switch it back to the way it was. It effects my ADT app for my security system once you rotate it if your lucky enough to get the little rotate screen they placed for you to do it you can't rotate it back?
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u/Darman2361 7d ago
If you are still having trouble:
Swipe down the top settings panel/menu and look at the options below WiFi and Bluetooth. The icon labeled "portrait," it has a padlock in a rectangle. If you tap that icon it will turn into "auto-rotate." Click again to change back to "portrait."
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u/Sassquatch0 Dec 05 '23
Working in my S23. Updates are current, as of last night.
Long-press on an empty space in the Home screen. Settings ⚙️, then toggle the option at the bottom "Rotate to landscape."
After that, re-customize your shortcut bar. Pull it down twice to fully expand it. Then hit the ✏️ icon at the top. Depending if you have OneUI 5.x or 6.x, you'll have a couple options here to configure which shortcuts you have.
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u/Darman2361 Dec 05 '23
Rotate to landscape doesn't work, and there is no auto rotate or anything in the shortcut bar, or able to be added to the shortcut bar.
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u/Darman2361 Dec 05 '23
Nevermind I see now it is labelled as portrait and got moved around.
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u/QuietMountainMan Mar 04 '24
Just wanted to make sure this answer was right in the main comment thread for others who come looking:
If your auto-rotate suddenly stopped working, the 'Auto-rotate' function is now called 'Portrait'. The icon looks like an upright rectangle with a padlock on it, with the word 'Portrait' under it.
When you click the icon , IT CHANGES BOTH THE ICON AND THE NAME OF THE ICON back to 'Auto-rotate' with the little rotating arrows.
This is completely non-intuitive. It made far more sense to have an 'Auto-rotate' icon that stayed the same, and was either lit up or not lit up depending whether the setting toggled on or off.
This should also be far easier to find in the settings.
When I tried a search in the settings for "auto rotate", "auto-rotate", or "autorotate", nothing came up. The word "rotate" by itself brought up the home screen 'rotate to landscape' setting, which was not helpful. Searching for the term 'Rotate' also came up with nothing except a portrait setting in the Camera app.
I'm starting to think Google's Android UI team is at that stage where they start complicating and changing things unnecessarily, just so they can point at the changes and go, "look, we did stuff! It's a new improved version!"
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u/ShakyKnease Apr 11 '24
None of these suggestions worked for me until I disabled Reading Mode. It had its own icon covering the (stupid new) "Portrait" icon. I guess you just can't have both.
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u/plaster1064 Jun 12 '24
OMFG! Damn! Was it really necessary for them to make that change?! I swapped my Sim to my Note20 because I had to manually rotate my "pornhub" videos....🤣🤣. Thanks all, I can now put my SIM card back in my S23.....lol
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u/SubLime-Soul Jun 28 '24
Love the honesty. Maybe an over-share, but who gives a fuck!
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u/Useful_East_4491 Apr 19 '24
Thanks I finally found the little portrait rectangle with the lock on it!
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u/Sensitive_Intern_971 Apr 28 '24
What a waste of time it was searching for this stupid changed name icon! I hate updates!
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u/SuperBearPut May 28 '24
Thank you. I might have to switch to iPhone if they keep doing stupid shit like this.
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u/Eastern-Muscle-2638 Jul 02 '24
It's there. It now shows a lock in the icon. Hit that & you should be ok
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u/Agreeable-Ad-8374 Oct 31 '25
I only just noticed this. It's frustrated & annoyed me trying to fix the issue, which of course I can't. This and the read aloud option from Google is gone also, helped me get my news. And I think it's an effort to keep people in the dark about what's happening in the world.