How do you lock an Adalo app to portrait or landscape?
Set an Adalo app to portrait, landscape, or automatic rotation from App Settings, then verify the choice on the devices your release supports.
Open App Settings in the Adalo editor, find App Orientation, and choose Portrait Only, Landscape Only, or Portrait and Landscape for automatic device rotation.
Adalo now includes App Orientation controls in the editor's Settings. The current official guide documents portrait-only, landscape-only, and automatic rotation choices. This Answer turns that setting into a short implementation and test workflow while keeping the evidence limits clear.
The intended outcome
The app uses one documented orientation policy that matches its layout and can be checked before release.
Requirements
- An Adalo app open in the editor
- A test device or device preview that can be rotated
- Screens designed for every orientation you intend to allow
Step by step
- 01
Open the app settings
Open the main menu on the left side of the Adalo editor and select Settings. This is an app-wide configuration, not a component setting.
- 02
Find App Orientation
Scroll through Settings until you reach the App Orientation controls.
- 03
Choose the orientation policy
Select Portrait Only to keep the app vertical, Landscape Only to keep it horizontal, or Portrait and Landscape to let the app follow device rotation.
- 04
Test every allowed layout
Preview the app and rotate a test device through each allowed orientation. Check navigation, scrolling, forms, lists, media, and tap targets before releasing a new build.
The underlying logic
App Orientation is an app-level setting, so one choice governs how the app presents itself across screens.
Portrait and Landscape allows rotation, while either single-orientation option intentionally locks the app to that direction.
What still needs checking?
- The older forum thread now points to a current native App Orientation setting, replacing earlier third-party workarounds and feature-request discussion.
Common failure modes
The app does not rotate after selecting Portrait and Landscape
Confirm the device orientation lock is off, reopen the preview or test build, and test a screen whose layout can visibly change between portrait and landscape.
Content clips or overlaps in the newly allowed orientation
Review the affected screen's responsive layout, including component widths, heights, groups, anchoring, and scrolling. The orientation setting does not redesign a screen automatically.
Testing checklist
0 of 6 checked on this device
Current limitations
- The official guide documents an app-wide setting and does not document different orientation rules for individual screens.
- This Answer is based on current Adalo documentation and staff guidance; the workflow was not reproduced in a native release build during this review.
- Allowing both orientations does not repair fixed-size or overlapping screen layouts, so each supported direction still needs testing.
What the Adalo community is reporting
These are concise editorial summaries of public forum posts—not endorsements or independently reproduced results.
Option to force screen orientation to either portrait by default or landscape
The accepted staff reply points builders to Adalo's official App Orientation Settings after years of workaround discussion.
Boundary: The accepted reply is a documentation pointer and does not report hands-on testing or platform-specific release behavior.
TORCH (question) and Jessi.Frye (accepted staff answer) · September 2025Sources and status
This page was last reviewed on Sep 3, 2026. Its current status is Documented from current sources.
Verification owner: Adalocado daily AI publisher, based on current official documentation and forum staff guidance; no hands-on reproduction. Next review: Nov 3, 2026.
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