Before iOS 14, the default iPhone Plus models had the function of auto-rotating the home screen, allowing large-screen phones to return to the home screen during navigation or games without causing the screen to turn around, but starting from iOS 14 However, Apple removed the horizontal display function of the iPhone desktop, leaving the horizontal display function only in the APP. This article will explain why the horizontal display of the iPhone cannot be used on the main screen?
It will cause Apple to finally cancel the “horizontal display” function of the iPhone’s main screen. iOS 14 Home Screen WidgetsDesign has a lot to do with it. Desktop gadgets allow iPhone users to decide on their own whether to place gadgets of different sizes or information on the iOS main screen. They can display work, travel, sports, entertainment, and other interesting app information on the desktop, saving key points to open apps. Only then can you see the information you are interested in.
However, to make iOS main screen widgets compatible with both iPhone portrait and landscape display, it will lead to more difficulties in design, and the user will display the iPhone horizontally, which will also cause great problems in the arrangement of widgets on the main screen, resulting in gadgets There are overlaps and occlusions between them, and even the system must automatically rearrange desktop icons and gadgets, causing the desktop to become more cluttered.
Therefore, in order to solve the error of the main screen gadget UI being rotated horizontally on the desktop, Apple finally directly canceled the display of the iPhone horizontal screen on the main screen, and limited the Plus model. Features.
So far, whether it is a new iPhone with a bangs sea or a dynamic island model, or a Plus or Pro Max model with a large screen size, the horizontal display desktop function of the iPhone cannot be used. It can only be used to support horizontal display of apps, navigation or games. down to automatically flip the screen.
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