Use phone upside down?

[cleverEyes]

It'd be really nice to rotate my phone in any direction.

For example, I can hold my phone in portrait orientation, as well as both landscape orientations. What would be really nice is if there were some way to have the phone also in portrait mode but upside down.

As a former iPhone user, it made sense at that time because the notch would get in the way, but with Samsung (and especially their under-display cameras), it's a weird quirk. There isn't really anything in the way.

It isn't a dealbreaker if there's no way to fix it, but it totally feels like an oversight. I personally would find it useful to use my phone in portrait-upside-down mode so the charger is facing out and away, instead of sometimes poking me.

[LongHiker]

@cleverEyes The only app that I have ever seen support this is Google Maps. If you are charging and using Maps for directions, if you turn the phone upside down the screen rotates appropriately. 

[cleverEyes]

That is so bizarre.
I found some other apps do it too like my pharmaceutical provider's app do it. So it's clearly possible...
Just kinda strange.
Thank you though!

[realaud]

I often wonder why they don't put the charging port on the top or on the side, under the power button.  

[cleverEyes]

Right? I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks that.

[realaud]

It would make much more sense. That way if you are watching a movie in landscape mode, you can still keep it on a stand and charger, and if you have it on a stand  in portrait mode, you can still charge it.  I understand, the top might interfere with the cameras, but I don't understand why it can't be under the power button.

[LongHiker]

@realaud Unfortunately if it was on the side, I can see where it would create havoc in auto phone holders. 

[realaud]

Possibly true, but it could also go above the volume buttons, or lower down on the side below where phone holder "arms" would be. There's a whole lot of space there although, admittedly, I don't know what's behind that space - whatever it is could be, perhaps, moved to where the charging port now resides.

[Je655 · Accepted solution]

If you search "rotation control" in the Google play store you can find multiple options that allow full sensor rotation.
I wish it was an option in settings since the apps on the play store require to run constantly and multiple settings permissions to work.

[cleverEyes]

I wasn't super sold on having an app manage everything about my screen, feel a little leery that it can see my phone but I was raised being suspicious about tech stuff like this.

But once I tried it out I can't delete it. Well, I can, but I find it so useful to have cords facing out from me, or picking my phone up in any orientation and using as is. It's just nice.

Totally should be a labs or Goodlock setting tbh