Sometimes the screen on the Amazon Kindle Fire will rotate annoyingly when you’re trying to read. Fortunately you can lock the screen in place and disable the screen rotation.
- On the Kindle Fire HD and HDX models, access the quick menu from the Home screen by sliding down the bar at the top of the screen. On the original Fire, tap the gear in the upper-right corner of the screen.
- On newer models like the HD8 and HD10, select the “Auto-Rotate” option to toggle the setting as desired.
On older models, tap the “Locked“/”Unlocked” option to toggle the setting. When it says “Unlocked“, screen rotation is enabled.
When it says “Locked“, screen rotation is disabled.
On older models, tap the “Locked“/”Unlocked” option to toggle the setting. When it says “Unlocked“, screen rotation is enabled.
When it says “Locked“, screen rotation is disabled.
How to access quick menu functions (screen rotation, WiFi etc) when quick menu itself is unavailable? My doesn’t pull down anymore.
Finally sorted on my Kindle Fire HDX. Thanks for the advice. Worked straight away 😃
My screen is cracked and where the crack is the screen does not work and the button is right under the crack so I cannot turn of rotation lock this way is there any other way I can turn it off, can it be turned of via settings?
Mitch,
I have an older model Kindle Fire (shown above). Screen rotation worked perfectly, until yesterday. Screen will not rotate, and the icon shows “Unlocked”. I have tried locking and unlocking several times, and have “hard shut down” (held button until shutdown occurred) numerous times, to no avail. Can find no other setting to correct problem. Any other suggestions?
Chuck
I can get it on the adult profile but not the child profile. It stays locked on child profile. Grrr
On an older Kindle Fire ,enabling “locked” will not prevent rotation of the page if the ebook reader is Cool Reader.
What can one do to prevent the very annoying rotation ,and even change in size,of the page?