If your Android's auto-rotate functionality is on, but the phone screen doesn't auto-rotate, it could indicate a minor glitch or hardware issue. In this case, your first step is to restart your phone.

Your Android device has an accelerometer that detects its orientation by measuring angular velocity and helps rotate your screen.

Android phone stuck in portrait or landscape mode when it shouldn't be? Here's what's probably going on, and how you can solve it.

When mirroring screens from physical devices, developers need to touch them even less. There are new actions like screen rotation, folding and unfolding, changing the volume, and a few more.

For all the improvements Android has seen, Google still hasn't managed to make auto-rotation on Android work flawlessly, and it's surprising how inconsistent it can be.

Android display rotation, reinvented So, for context: Android has long had a native system for handling the dull-seeming chore of deciding when and how, exactly, your screen should rotate itself.

Android 15 QPR1 Beta 1 hints at a new settings page that'll let you adjust the resolution and rotation of external displays.