{"id":209272,"date":"2026-02-02T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/google-phone-apps-landscape-saga-reaches-its-conclusion\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T16:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T21:05:09","slug":"google-phone-apps-landscape-saga-reaches-its-conclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/google-phone-apps-landscape-saga-reaches-its-conclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Phone app&#8217;s landscape saga reaches its conclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-phone-landscape-2-3637325\/\">Google Phone app&#8217;s landscape saga reaches its conclusion<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-phone-landscape-2-3637325\/\">https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-phone-landscape-2-3637325\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-02 15:13:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidauthority.com\">www.androidauthority.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Edgar Cervantes \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Last year Google started supporting a landscape mode UI for its Phone app.<\/li>\n<li>Eventually a new option to lock the app in portrait arrived for beta testers.<\/li>\n<li>That setting is now broadly available, as Google addresses confusion surrounding the feature.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The software on our phones is constantly being updated, so we\u2019re well aware that the appearance and functionality of apps can change on even a day-to-day basis. But last year, Android users found themselves scratching their heads about one change in particular: Google\u2019s Phone app adding support for a landscape-style interface. Was it a bug? Was it a feature? Who was even asking for this in the first place? After a few bumpy months, it now looks like we\u2019re finally at the end of this weird saga.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t want to miss the best from Android Authority?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_Ug\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"9.375rem\" title=\"google preferred source badge light@2x\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x.png 676w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x-64w-20h.png 64w\" alt=\"google preferred source badge light@2x\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x.png\"\/><img class=\"e_Ug\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"9.375rem\" title=\"google preferred source badge dark@2x\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x.png 676w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x-64w-20h.png 64w\" alt=\"google preferred source badge dark@2x\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Holding your phone upright in portrait orientation feels like just the most natural way in the world to make phone calls \u2014 so much so that we were left scratching our heads a bit late last summer when we first caught wind of new landscape mode support.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it turns out that shortly after we last checked in, Google formally announced the availability of the portrait-mode lock, which now appears to be generally available to all Phone users:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re happy to share that a new Keep portrait mode setting is now available. To give you more control, this setting keeps your calls in portrait mode. Based on user feedback, your calls are now default to portrait mode, so you don\u2019t need to take further action to keep this active. We realize that some users in our beta program are confused by this setting\u2019s initial introduction and then disappearance. We briefly removed this setting to update it in response to community\u2019s helpful feedback.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s particularly nice to see Google acknowledge our shared uncertainty surrounding these developments \u2014 good to know we weren\u2019t just all going crazy together.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019d still love to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-phone-landscape-2-3637325\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Phone app&#8217;s landscape saga reaches its conclusion https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-phone-landscape-2-3637325\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-02 15:13:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Android-dialer-on-phone-app-3.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-209272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209274,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209272\/revisions\/209274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}