Enable or Disable Screen Rotation on Lenovo A7000 Smartphone

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You're watching VisiHow. This is a tutorial on how to turn screen rotation on and off on the Lenovo A7000-series smartphone.

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   Before we begin, we make sure that the phone is unlocked

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   We should be on the home screen. From the home screen, there are two ways to turn "Screen rotation" on and off.

   

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   One way to turn "Screen rotation" on and off is to access the "Settings" menu

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   In this tutorial, we tap on "Settings" directly on the home screen.

   

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   Once the menu is open, we scroll through until we find "Display"

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   It is next to a yellow circle icon.

   

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   We tap on "Display" one time

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   Near the bottom of the "Display" options, there is a line that says, "When device is rotated". In this video, it is set to "Stay in portrait view".

   

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   We tap on the "When device is rotated" line one time

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   A pop-up menu will be shown. We can choose to "Rotate the contents of the screen" with the device or to "Stay in portrait view".

   

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   Let's tap on "Rotate the contents of the screen"

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   We have to note that this setting does not rotate the home screens. It will work with certain applications such as web browsers.

   

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   If we'd like to change it back to the portrait view, we come back to the "Display" screen and tap on "When device is rotated"

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   We tap on "Stay in portrait view"

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   This will turn screen rotation off.

   

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   When we've finished setting the screen rotation, we can press the home button

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   The button is at the bottom in the center. We will go back to the home screen.

   

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    The second way to enable or disable screen rotation is by swiping down from the top of the screen

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    We will open the notification bar.

    

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    We swipe down from the top of the screen again

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    We will see our quick settings.

    

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    In the second row of the second column, we see that "Rotate" is "Off"

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    It is gray. We tap the icon one time. The words will change to "Auto Rotate". The icon will become white, letting us know that screen rotation is turned on.

    

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    To turn screen rotation off, we come back to the notifications and the quick access menu

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    We tap on "Auto Rotate" one time

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    When we have finished, we swipe up from the bottom

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    We will go back to the home screen.

    

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