Disable Screen Rotation on Kindle Fire HD
The Kindle Fire HD has Screen Rotation enabled by default. If you’re reading a book or browsing the web it can be annoying. Here’s how to turn it on or off.
The Kindle Fire HD has a screen rotation feature enabled by default. The screen will automatically flip to landscape or portrait view depending on how you hold it. If you’re reading a book or browsing the web, it can be annoying — here’s how to turn it on or off.
Set Screen Lock Orientation on Fire HD
First, put your Fire HD in the orientation you want it — either portrait or landscape. Then swipe from the top of the screen down to bring up the menu screen. Then tap on the Auto-Rotate button.
That’s all there is to it. You will see a lock icon on the Auto-Rotate button and the screen will stay in place. To unlock the screen tap the Auto-Rotate button again.
When you’re watching a movie or playing a game, it will automatically stay in its default orientation, so you won’t need to worry about locking the screen when doing certain activities on the tablet.
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Austin Krause
Simple and clean and similar to the first Fire. I like what Amazon has done here, it’s much easier to access than on my Samsung Android devices.
Brian Burgess
Yeah, it’s very annoying having rotation enabled when reading a book in bed and you’re right…locking and unlocking it is easy.
Michalene Sieving
I cannot find the screen rotation button on my Kindle
Janet
Even when I locked the darn screen to the preferred orientation which is landscape mode Using the method you describe, the minute I go to facebook or some other app the Fire 10 changes the orientation to portrait and it is locked! This appears to be a software error, anyone know how to fix it? It is so frustrating!