Samsung Experience update lets you rotate home screen on Galaxy S8

Final updated: July 9th, 2018 at 09:36 UTC+01:00

A characteristic that has but been available on the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ so far has seemingly been ported to the Galaxy S8, Galaxy S8+ and the Galaxy Note 8 by Samsung. The visitor is rolling out a new update for its Samsung Experience launcher which volition enable you to rotate home screen on Galaxy S8, Galaxy S8+ and the Galaxy Note 8.

Now that the Samsung Experience launcher has this characteristic, users tin enable a landscape mode in the Domicile screen settings carte du jour. Once the feature is enabled it volition rotate the home screen so that the launcher matches the orientation of the app being used.

Rotate dwelling house screen on Galaxy S8

As previously mentioned, this feature was merely bachelor on Samsung'southward 2018 flagships so far and will probable be present on the Galaxy Notation 9 likewise which is due to send with Android 8.i Oreo out of the box. Information technology's really going to be Samsung'southward start smartphone with Android 8.ane Oreo.

This option to rotate abode screen on Galaxy S8, Galaxy S8+ and the Galaxy Annotation 8 has only appeared for some users at the moment, even if they have the latest version of Samsung Feel installed. It'southward possible that Samsung is making this feature available in waves.

Information technology'southward also possible that the company is merely testing the waters with this characteristic so the pick to rotate habitation screen on Milky way S8 and the other devices may only appear for select users initially. If information technology's indeed a exam then it may be a while before Samsung decides whether or not it's going to brand this feature bachelor to all users.

To check whether or not this characteristic is available on your handset one time the latest Samsung Experience update has been installed, head over to the Settings app and open Home screen settings. At that place should be a Portrait mode but option there if the feature has gone alive for y'all. Enable information technology if you want to rotate home screen to mural style on the devices mentioned above.