It is not the same on Android, at least not on Pixel devices. If you turn off auto-rotation, your screen will stay locked in whatever orientation (vertical or horizontal) you did so in.

One can also still rotate their screen by tapping a little rotate icon that appears while rotating while auto-rotation is turned off.

Not only that, but the rotation lock on iPads do the right thing!

Used to work that way. But then someone got a bright idea. They could “simplify” it by only allowing the majority use case. If you sometimes liked it locked in horizontal position, well fuck you.

Same thing with the wifi button—it no longer turns off the wifi. Used to! The only thing I used it for. Have to push airplane instead.

I think watching horizontal video should be a pretty major use case, but then again; it is only an issue in the browser, because apps like Netflix seem to handle the horizontal lock themselves.

Another thing that is messed up with horizontal video in Safari is stereo audio. This should also depend on the orientation of the phone, and in the apps I think it does, but in Safari only sometimes.

I guess I should just use the apps, or maybe in the age of TikTok horizontal video is dying anyway?

I always wished the “Ring/Silent” switch was a “Lock/Unlock Orientation” switch instead.