Auto-rotate setting not respected in PWA on Chrome

[ekzyis]

Description

Even if I disable "auto-rotate", the SN PWA still rotates if I rotate my phone.

This is super annoying when lying in bed and similar.

The only other PWA that I have is Mutiny and this doesn't happen there.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Disable auto-rotate
2. Rotate phone
3. SN PWA rotates

Expected behavior

SN PWA does not rotate if auto-rotation is disabled

Screenshots

Environment:

Chrome on Android

Additional context:

I believe this is the case since the latest manifest changes because of orientation: 'any'.

This doesn't happen if I open SN in the browser.

This might be a bug in the PWA implementation of Chrome, not sure. Read here for the specs of orientation

[ekzyis]

This might be a bug in the PWA implementation of Chrome, not sure. Read here for the specs of orientation

@SatsAllDay @huumn Does this happen for you on iOS with Safari, too?

[SatsAllDay]

If I lock the orientation on my iOS device, the SN PWA does not rotate if I rotate my phone. Does that answer it?

[ekzyis]

Yes, thanks!

Just tested with Firefox. Setting is respected there.

Tried Brave Browser, setting is not respected there. This makes sense since it's based on Chromium.

Guess I have to use Firefox for the PWA to fix this. This looks like a bug in the Chromium PWA implementation to me.

I am surprised no other stacker has mentioned this yet.

[ekzyis]

But Firefox does not support theme color ...

Why, just why

The web is a mess, lol

[SatsAllDay]

The web is a mess, lol

Welcome to the front lines :P

[ekzyis]

lol, I think that the PWA from Chrome does not respect my auto-rotate settings is not a bug. It's probably just that only Chrome supports orientation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Manifest/orientation#browser_compatibility

Maybe any is not the correct setting we should use?

[ekzyis]

I would propose to just remove orientation all together since it's only supported by Chrome and it's experimental.

If you want to rotate, you can still manually rotate or enable the OS setting.

press icon in red circle to manually follow phone orientation