Forget about screen rotation toggle forever

Don't know about you, but for me having to switch that quick setting toggle back and forth every time I want my phone to rotate the screen on a certain app is plain annoying: I often forget to flip the switch back to lock screen orientation, and that leads to all possible awkward situations with unexpected outcomes, for example chatting in a messenger while lying on the couch and then suddenly turning on the side. Only the launcher stays locked in the portrait mode, however that is mostly its core functonality, they are designed to behave like this unless forced otherwise.

Here's the deal, though: I only need to rotate the screen into landscape mode in a limited number of apps. Fortunately, I can use Tasker to solve this problem once and for all.

Within Tasker I can create a profile that detects selected foreground apps and uses it as a condition to trigger a task. I can also define an exit task, meaning when the condition is no longer met, it would use another task to switch to the previous state.

Here I have two tasks: one enables screen rotation, the other disables it. I use screen rotation mostly for various web browsers, and also for the Termux app, where I often write blog posts and scripts for my videos.

After all that done, I can finally remove the quick settings toggle and make a free slot for something more useful.

Mon, 5 May 2025 21:55:00 +0200

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