• TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    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).

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      8 months ago

      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.

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        8 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.

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        8 months ago

        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.

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            8 months ago

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

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              8 months ago

              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.

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                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.

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              8 months ago

              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.

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      8 months ago

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