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    [–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

    That feature has always been annoying to me, even on phones. I always turn it off because "I" will control whether my screen rotates or not. Maybe sometimes I don't want it to rotate when I turn the phone (like when I'm viewing building plans at work and want to orient the screen with how I'm looking at the building I'm standing in).

    [–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Not sure how standard this is, but on Pixel phones the default is no auto rotation, but when the phone detects rotation it will display a tiny rotate button in the corner of the screen for just a few seconds. Best of both worlds IMO.

    [–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    That's a stock Android feature, or at least it's on Motorola phones. Handy button.

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

    That's a stock Android feature, I have that on LineageOS

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    That rotate button is incredibly annoying. I turned off auto-rotate for a reason and the button obscures other information displayed in that corner of the screen. Wish I could turn the button off too.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    What information is in your navigation bar?

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago
    [–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    There is no navigation bar on the Pixel 8. It uses some sort of gesture-based system instead.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Not pixel specific, stock android. You can enable the old on-screen buttons for accessibility reasons or if you're a grumpy old sod who hates change.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

    I am a grumpy young sod who hates change!

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    Well fortunately you can reenable the old buttons too!

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    It’s still a navigation bar it’s just transparent. If there’s important information down there that can get blocked by it then the developers of the app did something wrong.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

    It is simply the bottom of the app window. There is nothing app-specific to this behaviour, lots of apps show information in the lower 20-30 pixels of their window.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

    My android does that too, but some apps ignore it and it's extremely annoying, especially when lying in bed (looking at you, Sleep for Android)

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    On stock Android and Samsung, the default is auto rotation, but when I turn it off, exactly that happens. That's why I turn it off.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

    I hate controlling screen rotation based off it. It's great in controllers for aiming though.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

    On Samsung devices you can go into settings and add a "routine" under Modes And Routines that automatically enables auto rotate for certain apps, and disables it when you leave the apps.

    Alternatively I believe you can do the same if you have a license for Tasker.