Most individuals want to carry their telephones in portrait orientation. It’s simpler to carry a smartphone utilizing one hand and primarily based on my expertise, holding the cellphone in panorama simply doesn’t really feel as safe. Nonetheless, for some actions, reminiscent of streaming video, holding a cellphone in panorama mode is most well-liked due to the wide-angle view that the video is proven in. Based on Mishaal Rahman writing for
Android Authority, Google is making some modifications to
Android 15 to placate those that want to have their cellphone in panorama mode.
As Rahman notes, you cannot rotate the lock display with inventory
Android 14. With the notifications web page, you possibly can go into panorama however you may discover that whereas notifications make up about 70% of the web page in that format, the width of every notification takes up lower than half of the house allotted for each. Moreover leaving loads of wasted house, the look of the web page is simply downright ugly. The highest third of the web page consists of 4 Fast Settings edit buttons positioned side-by-side.
With the present UI of the notifications web page in panorama, you must swipe down as soon as to see components which can be in any other case hidden such because the brightness slider on the highest of the web page, the settings shortcut, a shortcut to the ability menu, the Fast Settings edit icon and extra.
The Android 15 notifications web page in panorama after Google disseminates the brand new UI
What Google is doing is altering the notifications web page in panorama to utilize all the beforehand wasted house and is now not hiding the aforementioned hidden components in order that they’re at all times in view and will be rapidly accessed if wanted. The brand new look will present 4 Fast Settings buttons in a 2 x 2 look with the brightness slider showing all the time.
Your notifications, the Fast Settings edit icon, the ability menu shortcut, the settings shortcut, and extra are additionally on the display always as a substitute of being hidden and requiring one other swipe right down to view. Rahman says the brand new look of the panorama notifications web page resembles a model of the notification web page for tablets shrunk.
Rahman provides that the landscape-optimized UI for the lock display remains to be a piece in progress with some minor bugs that also must be labored out. In case you like utilizing your
Android cellphone in panorama, you’ll be glad to see
Google iron out all the wrinkles and push out the improved panorama notification UI and the brand new landscape-oriented lockscreen web page.
