Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear has a tip I found really useful: set the navigation device so north is up, "you'll never get lost again" (he exaggerates a lot).
Yes, that's Jeremy Clarkson, of course he exaggerates, but my issue is not much about "orientation", but rather with the zoom level (on a tiny device), maybe the actual colours/contrast/backlight/glare, I seem to "lose" the actual main road because a secundary one at a different zoom level seems "prevailing".
Or maybe it is just my poor eyesight, I sometimes need to take my spectacles off to see the details on a smartphone at close distance, yet I don't (yet) need reading glasses (at least not for printed paper).