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TL;DR
- The Google Phone app now supports landscape UI, meaning it will rotate if your system-wide auto-rotate is on. However, this feature apparently keeps getting added and removed between stable updates.
- Google also added a portrait lock toggle in beta releases, but the setting hasn’t made its way to the stable release yet, causing further confusion.
- Until Google makes up its mind, users can stop the unintentional rotation by disabling system-wide auto-rotate.
Back in September 2025, users began getting annoyed when their phone calls switched to landscape orientation while using the Google Phone app. As it turns out, the Google Phone app had just started supporting landscape UI for calls, and users with auto-rotate enabled on their phones were seeing the intended behavior but mistakenly thought it was a bug. Users are complaining once again that the Phone app is turning to landscape, and, as before, it might still be intended behavior.
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