Gutted, loved this on the previous Plus phones. Hope it makes a reappearance.
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iPhone XS Max No Landscape Homescreen on Max :(
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Only on certain apps there is landscape mode. As far as the homescreen, I’m not sure.
Until they get FaceID to do landscape, Apple will not do home screen landscape.
Fine with me...I wish Apple would adopt the Android feature of setting rotation per app
Fine with me too. I couldn't stand having the homescreen rotate. It was disorientating.
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Just out of curiosity, why are you "gutted" about this?
What is the advantage of having landscape capability on the homescreen?
What is the advantage of having landscape capability on the homescreen?
This is a great feature in my opinion. 99.9% of the time the ONLY time I want landscape is for pictures or videos. Certainly never on the homescreen.
Obviously you’re different, I wish Apple would release a “smart” rotation lock, or as another poster said above - setting rotation permissions per app.
Obviously you’re different, I wish Apple would release a “smart” rotation lock, or as another poster said above - setting rotation permissions per app.
If this gutts you, I would hate to see what happens when something bad actually happens.
I'm happy that there is no landscape by default on the Homescreen. That always bugged me that there was never an option to turn that off.
You hated a feature that could easily be disabled? Seems like there are more important things in life that one would feel so passionate about.
Gonna be honest. I never use landscape for the home page. It's a personal thing, just think it's useless for my own usage. Only time I'm in landscape is for using Sky Q / Netflix etc. I don't mind not having this (once I get my hands on the Max).
Yup, that's what I said. I hated home screen landscape mode on my 6 Plus. There, I've said it again just so we're all clear here.
That's very true! Unless of course you're taking someone's quote completely out of context. Or making invalid assumptions. For example, had I said "this is worse than staving kids in Africa", you'd have a point. If I'd said this was the most important thing in my life at the moment, you'd have a point. Going back, I'm not seeing where I said those things or anything similar. It seems more like I was expressing my opinion on the topic being discussed in this thread and giving relevant feedback.
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I feel for those who wanted this feature. Admittedly this makes me very happy. I hated the screen rotating all of the time. I had to keep my display view set to ‘zoomed’ just to deactivate it.
Noooo! I had a 7+ and loved using it in landscape when at the gym to watch things on or as a satnav in the car.
Going to the X, this was by far my biggest hate and I just upgraded to the XS max and can't believe it isn't back!
It isn't the end of the world or anything, but, I loved this feature (seemingly not many others did in this thread!) and it is really disappointing it isn't back.