Comment by weinzierl

Comment by weinzierl 6 hours ago

While we are at it: Can someone explain to me, why I can lock my screen in the vertical position but not horizontally.

Press the rotation lock in Control Center and it locks the current state would be a natural thing. But that is not how it works on iOS. Rotation lock rotates the screen back to vertical and locks it there. Is this the same on Android?

Also: The icon is a lock enclosed in a clockwise arrowed ~ 350° circle. That shouts rotation lock to me. If it has to be vertical lock, at least indicate that in the icon.

larouxn 6 hours ago

It is not the same on Android, at least not on Pixel devices. If you turn off auto-rotation, your screen will stay locked in whatever orientation (vertical or horizontal) you did so in.

One can also still rotate their screen by tapping a little rotate icon that appears while rotating while auto-rotation is turned off.

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kkylin 6 hours ago

Not only that, but the rotation lock on iPads do the right thing!

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mixmastamyk 6 hours ago

Used to work that way. But then someone got a bright idea. They could “simplify” it by only allowing the majority use case. If you sometimes liked it locked in horizontal position, well fuck you.

Same thing with the wifi button—it no longer turns off the wifi. Used to! The only thing I used it for. Have to push airplane instead.

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weinzierl 5 hours ago

I think watching horizontal video should be a pretty major use case, but then again; it is only an issue in the browser, because apps like Netflix seem to handle the horizontal lock themselves.
Another thing that is messed up with horizontal video in Safari is stereo audio. This should also depend on the orientation of the phone, and in the apps I think it does, but in Safari only sometimes.
I guess I should just use the apps, or maybe in the age of TikTok horizontal video is dying anyway?

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