Yes, got a message yesterday to say it was permanent - ‘to improve our game experience’ i.e. show loads of adverts. After 10050 levels completed, I’m done. Portrait isn’t for me!
Good job the banks don’t do tests in live apps! Not sure why King haven’t identified testers who could do this in Beta versions rather than release this to the live community with no notice! Very unprofessional in my view!
It seems like the developers have released the iPhone version in the App Store for iPad. it’s not only very annoying to have to play in portrait mode, the perspective of the game is wrong with many of the candies squashed up.