On my Samsung Galaxy A52 with Android 14 (One UI 6) there is an option called Show the rotate button in the navigation bar that does just that: a small button in the shape of a mobile appears at the bottom of the screen, the which is displayed when rotating the screen , as long as automatic screen rotation is not activated. This can be good or bad, depending on your taste..
First, to Show the Rotate button in the navigation bar, slide the quick settings panel and hold the rotate screen button. You will enter the Auto Spin settings. If you usually have auto-rotate disabled on your phone, then you can enable or disable the Show rotate button in navigation bar option. If you have auto-rotate enabled, then the Show Spin button in navigation bar option will be grayed out and will NOT be modifiable.
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This button will appear in the lower left corner of the phone screen when you rotate the phone (I insist, as long as you have automatic screen rotation disabled). It has the figure of a mobile phone inside a gray circle and will only appear in apps that support changing screen orientation between portrait and landscape mode , for example YouTube, Google Chrome, Spotify..
The idea of this button is that you can switch between portrait or landscape orientation of the screen only when you want (when you press this button). This is the difference with auto-rotate, where the screen will rotate whenever you rotate the orientation of the phone, which is sometimes annoying.
However, the problem with this button is that it sometimes appears above the buttons we might want to use in an app. For example, in the YouTube app it appears above the “Main” menu (which is the YouTube home screen). This manual spin button usually disappears after a few seconds, but sometimes you can press it accidentally. The screen rotates accidentally and the solution is to activate auto-rotate, rotate the phone to the desired orientation and then disable auto-rotate. It has been a nuisance several times in my case..
In conclusion, the option Show the Rotate button in the navigation bar (which has existed for some time in the Samsung Galaxy ) is a type of menu or exclusive accessibility button to change at will or only when we want the rotation or orientation of the screen. This button is located at the bottom of the screen only when the phone is turned. It is similar to the Color Correction shortcut (Settings, Accessibility, Vision Improvements), which allows us to activate grayscale on Android in one touch, but in this case it serves to control the rotation or orientation of the screen.