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[-] savvywolf@pawb.social 73 points 7 months ago

The steam deck does have a gyroscope for sensing rotation... Just saying.

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 34 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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).

[-] nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 41 points 7 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.

[-] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 17 points 7 months ago

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

[-] orl0pl@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

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

[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 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.

[-] Rexios@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago

What information is in your navigation bar?

[-] Octopus1348@lemy.lol 2 points 7 months ago
[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works 0 points 7 months ago

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

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 7 points 7 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.

[-] Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I am a grumpy young sod who hates change!

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 7 months ago

Well fortunately you can reenable the old buttons too!

[-] Rexios@lemm.ee 5 points 7 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.

[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 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.

[-] hulemy@ani.social 2 points 7 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)

[-] Octopus1348@lemy.lol 1 points 7 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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