Screen Orientation Test
Check that your device reports orientation correctly and auto-rotate works.
Orientation
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Angle
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Viewport
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Orientations seen
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Turn the device through each orientation and watch the outline follow. If nothing changes, rotation lock is almost certainly on — that is a setting, not a fault, and the gyroscope test will confirm the sensor itself is working. Most phones never report the upside-down portrait orientation at all, so three out of four is a normal result. Desktop browsers report landscape and stay there.
Your test runs locally in your browser. No device data is uploaded.
How to use the orientation test
Make sure rotation lock is off, then turn the device through portrait, landscape and back the other way. The outline on screen should follow, the angle should change, and each orientation you reach lights up in the list.
What is being reported
This reads the screen orientation the operating system has settled on, not the raw sensor. That distinction is the whole point: when someone says their screen will not rotate, the sensor is usually working perfectly and something above it has decided not to act on it.
Most phones never report the upside-down portrait orientation, so reaching three of the four is a completely normal result. Tablets generally support all four. Desktop browsers report landscape and stay there, since there is nothing to rotate.
If rotation is not working
Check rotation lock first, in the control centre or quick settings. It is by far the most common cause and it is a setting rather than a fault. Some apps also lock their own orientation regardless of the system setting.
If rotation is unlocked and the orientation here still never changes, run the gyroscope test. If the sensor angles move there but the orientation never updates here, the problem is in the operating system rather than the hardware, and a restart resolves it surprisingly often.
Frequently asked questions
- How is this different from the gyroscope test?
- The gyroscope test reports the raw sensor angles. This reports what the operating system decided to do with them — the orientation the screen is actually in. When someone says their screen will not rotate, the sensor is usually fine and this is the test that shows where it breaks down.
- My screen will not rotate.
- Rotation lock is almost always the reason, and it is a setting rather than a fault. Check the control centre or quick settings toggle first. If rotation is unlocked and the orientation here still never changes, run the gyroscope test to check the sensor itself.
- Why can I only reach three of the four orientations?
- Most phones deliberately never report upside-down portrait, so three out of four is a completely normal result. Tablets usually do support all four.