LandscapeLeft / LandscapeRight / LandscapeSensor sometimes is not applied immediately

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I have ScreenOrientation set to LandscapeRight in my game. And what I am doing in some scripts is that I declare a constant this way:

local SCREEN_AREA = GuiService:GetInsetArea(Enum.ScreenInsets.None)

Unfortunately, despite the fact that ScreenOrientation is applied sometimes it takes time for Roblox to see it and because of that scripts will have SCREEN_AREA set as 400 x 900 for the rest of the execution and not 900 x 400.

I will try to make a reproduction file soon.

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inset bug.rbxl (75.3 KB)

We set ScreenOrientation to keep horizontal screen:

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We have this simple script:

local GUIService = game:GetService("GuiService")
local none = GUIService:GetInsetArea(Enum.ScreenInsets.None)
print(none.Width, none.Height)

task.wait(1)

local none = GUIService:GetInsetArea(Enum.ScreenInsets.None)
print(none.Width, none.Height)

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Another strange behaviour that appears is that DeviceSafeInsets are changing dynamically:

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I am using iPhoneXR.

4

I’m sure this is because of the screen rotation occuring during Roblox App - Game

5

Probably, but it’s so annoying tbh :frowning:

And I am not sure it explains change of the size of DeviceSafeInsets.

6

The cross experience print statement thing in the console is annoying too so many people including me have it and idk why

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i still don’t know what is it lol. what is it?

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I don’t know I can’t figure it out

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9

Hey! This looks like a timing issue rather than something wrong with your code.

ScreenOrientation isn’t applied immediately — the engine updates it asynchronously, so if you query things like GetInsetArea right after setting it, you can still get values from the previous orientation for a frame or two.

Instead of reading it once (especially during initialization), you might want to listen for when the orientation actually updates:

local GuiService = game:GetService("GuiService")
local playerGui = game.Players.LocalPlayer:WaitForChild("PlayerGui")

local function update()
	local area = GuiService:GetInsetArea(Enum.ScreenInsets.None)
	print(playerGui.CurrentScreenOrientation, area)
	-- update your layout here
end

playerGui:GetPropertyChangedSignal("CurrentScreenOrientation"):Connect(update)

This way you’re reacting to the real applied orientation instead of racing it.

Hope that helps!

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Will close this bug and mark as “Won’t Fix” since the above solution should resolve the problem. Thank you for taking the time to share the report.