Is your Android tablet or phone stuck in one orientation? Maybe everyone's been telling you about the auto rotate setting, which you already know about and have tried! Don't worry - besides the rotation setting, there's another setting you'll need to change which we show below. So if your Android screen rotation is not working, you'll be able to fix your problem quickly and easily with our illustrated guide.
Go to the icon settings
Assuming your problem is not the rotation setting, then your stuck device needs to change the icon settings. A classic symptom of this is when your Android phone is stuck in landscape mode.
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Why the icon settings? The answer is that if the icons are too large, then your phone or tablet can't keep them all on the same screen when you rotate the tablet. They just won't all fit properly when the orientation is changed. So your phone will stay stuck on its current state and won't change orientation when you rotate the phone. So what you need to do is make your icons smaller. It's easy - here's how.
First, go to your phone's main settings using the cog or gear app icon. Once you're in your settings menu, go to "Display". At this point, what you'll see will be a little different for each model of tablet or phone, but regardless, there will be an option to change the size of the icons. Most Android tablets and phones have this under the "Advanced" section of the Display settings that you're in. When you tap on the "Advanced" section, look for "Display settings" - that's what you need.
You may need to look around for this setting; if you don't see it in the Display menu of your device's settings, look under the Accessibility menu of the settings. Remember, your aim is to change the icon size in the screen.
You are looking for something like this:
After you tap on that setting, it will come up with a slider or some other way to select the icon size, like the one in the final image below.
To fix your problem, simply slide the slider all the way left to the smallest setting. Go to your normal home screen to try. You should now be able to rotate your phone or tablet between portrait and landscape and it should all work properly.
So in conclusion, you might have thought your Android auto rotate was not working, but that was not the cause of the problem, just a symptom. The cause was that your icons were displayed too large for the screen to handle for Android's auto rotate screen, and you simply need to decrease your icon size as described in the section above.
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