Same exact problem here! I put my iPhone in my car’s cup holder with the power cord on top whenever I am driving. Now, that no longer works, and it is a major issue for me.
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iPhone X No upside down rotation on the iPhone X?
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Same exact problem here! I put my iPhone in my car’s cup holder with the power cord on top whenever I am driving. Now, that no longer works, and it is a major issue for me.
It’s app specific. On my 7plus many do.
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Not true. My iPhone 7 would fully rotate certain apps including Waze and Google Maps (while guidance was active).
Many didn't, developers have the possibility to disable a single orientation if they want to. I usually disable upside down on the iPhone, while I enable it on the iPad since the home button is less important there.
That’s not correct. iPhone 6 running iOS 10 allowed upside down rotation in Waze and some other apps (Tap Sports Baseball is another). When I upgraded to iOS 11.2 in iPhone X, upside down rotation disappeared in both of those apps.
I put my phone into cup holder too. It looks like many people do it and why not? I only need navigation occasionally so I don't want to keep a dedicated phone holder. The notch brings only one advantage - minor reduction in the phone hight. But the drawbacks are too many. It looks like Apple made a bad decision here.
Just tested Google Maps/Apple Maps/Waze on my 6s.
All three flipped & worked with the phone upside side down when in full Turn by Turn Navigation mode.
Waze was actually the only one that flipped & worked with the phone upside side down when not in Turn by Turn mode.
All three flipped & worked with the phone upside side down when in full Turn by Turn Navigation mode.
Waze was actually the only one that flipped & worked with the phone upside side down when not in Turn by Turn mode.
MY iphone 5 using ios 10.? allowed upside down use of all apps and the home screen. I wish i had it for the iphone 8.
This thread makes one realize what a great app Waze is.
Probably the best all around app that exists!
Probably the best all around app that exists!
I use my iPhone 8 to navigate with Google Maps all the time. I usually put it in the cup holder upside down. It puts much less strain on the USB cable, and the phone is more stable in the cup holder.
Doesn't the app developer have to enable it?
Apps that were enabled for upside down, but not updated for the X, may not rotate upside down until updated?
Apps that were enabled for upside down, but not updated for the X, may not rotate upside down until updated?
That's been established in quite a few replies some time ago in this thread.
I would say exeryone who wants this changed should become a free beta developer and leave some feedback about it. It’s absolutely ridiculous that my new over 1000 dollar phone is lacking the support to do the same thing every other iPhone ever has done. It was a big selling point of my car that I could have a nice clean phone mount that I could easily charge!
I do the same cup holder thing with Apple Maps navigation screen. Screen would rotate to upside down on my iPhone 7 but will not on iPhone XR. It still rotates to landscape. Just not upside down. C’mon Apple!
You shouldn't be using your phone in a cup holder.
Cup holders are for cups & generally located further away from your windscreen than a phone cradle is.
Your habits need to change - invest in a proper phone cradle that places the screen in your field of vision whilst driving or pick up a CarPlay headunit.
Cup holders are for cups & generally located further away from your windscreen than a phone cradle is.
Your habits need to change - invest in a proper phone cradle that places the screen in your field of vision whilst driving or pick up a CarPlay headunit.
For me I don’t want my screen with A big holder in it it’s very distracting having it taking up a bunch of windshield real estate when I mostly listen too the directions my car has the ability too answer calls so I don’t need to touch it at all I’ve been doing it this way for years before. I don’t think apple should make the call on how I’m using the phone so late in the game let’s be honest it strikes me as just being lazy that phone is crazy expensive so it’s not like they can’t do it.
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I agree. & I should've been clearer - by "in your field of vision" I mean in a position where you can quickly glance at the screen at a stop light etc. Say just to the left/right of your steering wheel - at shoulder height, as oppose to the typically lower height of a cup holder.
I look at phones mounted smack-back in the middle of windscreens (or any location of a windscreen for that matter) & question the safety of it...blocking any part of it would be very distracting to me as even when in the lower most corner, you could not see an obstacle or animal suddenly pop out from nowhere.
Apps have to manually state that they support portrait upside down orientation, but I don't think that the X model iPhone's will ever use that orientation. The reason being that you would lose a ton of screen space - the Notch area becomes useless, 30 pixels above the notch becomes useless because of the home bar, and then you lose 30 more vertical pixels up top because of the status bar needing to be displayed.
It does seem like they could add it as an accessibility mode though. And just black out the top and bottom of the display and make it act like a rectangular display iPhone.
I was able to rotate upside down with my iPhone 6s, using it exactly as described in this post... Waze, upside down in a cup holder. This allowed me to charge and use Waze at the same time without stressing my cable.
Unfortunately it no longer works with the iPhone X.
My iphone 6S rotated upside down. It was a great feature because I could keep it plugged in while in my car, but running the maps app. It appears apple removed this feature...
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My Subaru Outback has a holder designed for a phone... not a cup holder. It's easily viewable while driving at a glance and then I could plug my phone in, turn it upside down and Apple or Google maps would rotate to be viewable. I wish they'd kept this feature