# Improving automatic switching of mobile/desktop modes **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-automatic-switching-of-mobile-desktop-modes/384280 **Category:** Development **Tags:** dev-news **Created:** [September 29, 2025, 6:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-automatic-switching-of-mobile-desktop-modes/384280 "2025-09-29T18:49:12Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 10
### Author: ![Lilly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lilly/32/575047_2.png) [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly) #### Post date: [May 21, 2026, 5:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-automatic-switching-of-mobile-desktop-modes/384280/10 "2026-05-21T05:02:05Z")
> [@david](#): > > Folding phones is one of the reasons that we made this change. The feedback we’ve received elsewhere is that folding phones **should** show more on the screen when unfolded. Showing the ‘desktop view’ there is intentional. just an FYI David, the `Viewport based mobile mode` setting in regards to folding phone came up here (related specifically to the Horizon theme): > [@Header messes up on mid-size viewports on the Horizon Theme](https://meta.discourse.org/t/header-messes-up-on-mid-size-viewports-on-the-horizon-theme/403484/1): > > The header on Horizon works really well most of the time, across mobile and desktop: However, I’ve got a folding phone with a weird aspect ratio. Unfortunately the search bar and avatar disappear and everything goes a bit awry: This seems to be for 640-767px width - unfortunately where my foldy sits! there is a link in the setting description to post here if the setting needs disabling for any reason > [@Header messes up on mid-size viewports on the Horizon Theme](https://meta.discourse.org/t/header-messes-up-on-mid-size-viewports-on-the-horizon-theme/403484/2): > > disabling this setting seems to fix it for me (i forgot this was still there): > > ![Screenshot from 2026-05-20 19-50-46](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/3/5/8/358c02ac6e05490b20c2f28390a74cf57edc2444.png) --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-automatic-switching-of-mobile-desktop-modes/384280)._