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We asked, you told us: Most of you leave auto-rotate disabled
July 26, 2025
The quick toggle section of the notification shade is one of the more convenient features on a smartphone today, giving you seamless access to a variety of important settings. And auto-rotate is one of the options you’re guaranteed to find in the quick toggle section.
But is auto-rotate (i.e. via the quick toggle or system settings menu) actually used by many people though? Well, we askedAndroid Authorityreaders, and here’s how you answered.
Do you use auto-rotate on your smartphone?
Weposted the pollon May 7, and it accrued over 4,800 votes as of writing. In posting the poll, we said that we don’t count using the small auto-rotate prompt when turning the device as having auto-rotate enabled. Some phones also have an option to rotate the screen when you’re viewing a picture, but we didn’t count this as having auto-rotate enabled either. We were just looking at having auto-rotate enabled via the quick toggle or via system settings itself.
As it turns out, a grand total of 60.69% of respondents said they don’t actually use auto-rotate on their phones. Judging by the comments, these users prefer the small auto-rotate prompt or third-party apps to using the general auto-rotate option.
Meanwhile, 39.31% of polled readers said they still use auto-rotate on their devices. The comments point to auto-rotate being handy for people who frequently watch videos, view photos, and check out documents.
Thank you for voting in our poll and for leaving comments. How do you think Google and OEMs can improve rotation functionality in the future? Let us know below.
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