Auto-rotate is useful when you’re playing a video on your device and you flip it sideways to expand the video so it takes up the entire screen. But if you’re like us, you’ve gotten used to manually locking and unlocking auto-rotate often to keep it from switching to landscape when you don’t need it.
Android 12 update reduces auto screen rotation latency by 25%, adds face detection
Luckily, Android offers an easier way to enable auto-rotate by using face detection to determine how you want your screen to be oriented. In this post, we’ll explain how to enable face detection for screen auto-rotation and help you understand how this feature works.
You can follow the steps below to enable facial recognition for auto-rotate on your Android device.
With face detection for auto-rotate, Android will use your phone’s front-facing camera to detect your face and analyze its orientation relative to your phone so it can determine when to rotate the screen accurately. This should come in handy for those of us who use our phones while lying on a bed or couch.
