A menu bar will pop up on the bottom of the iPhone screen. Swipe your finger to the right on the menu bar that popped up. This will display several new buttons. Press the 'Rotation' button, which is the grey button on the left side of the menu bar. Hi Gayle, if you double tap the home button you'll get a pop up menu across the bottom of the screen. Then scroll the menu to the right till you find the left-hand icon in the photo. Pressing it will either lock or unlock the auto rotate function. It will be symbolised by a padlock. The screen on your iPhone and iPod touch can rotate so that you can see apps — like Safari and Messages — in portrait or landscape mode. Learn how to rotate the screen on your iPhone or iPod touch, or get help if the feature doesn't work. Dec 04, 2020 Open Control Center by swiping up from the bottom of the screen (or swiping down from the top right on iPhone X and newer). Tap the screen rotation lock button a second time, so that the white or red highlight disappears. You'll also see a message at the top of the screen about the rotation lock status.
The iPhone, like other new iOS devices, automatically rotates the screen to match the orientation of the device. When you turn your iPhone left or right, on its side, the screen will rely on the built-in accelerometer to adjust from the default Portrait mode to Landscape mode, displaying length-wise rather than height-wise in most apps. If the screen orientation doesn’t change when you turn your iPhone, either the accelerometer has stopped working properly or, more commonly, screen rotation has been locked. Many apps work best in Landscape mode (some actually only work in this mode) so it’s important to know how to unlock rotation on iPhone. Here’s how to do it on iOS 7 as well as earlier iOS releases.
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How to Unlock Rotation On iPhone with iOS 6 or Lower
- Double-tap the home button to launch the fast app switcher row of apps at the bottom of the screen.
- Swipe left to right to reveal the music player controls.
- Notice on the far left an icon with a lock inside the arrow.
- Tap on the icon so that the lock disappears.
- Tap on the home button to return to the home screen.
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How to Unlock Rotation On iPhone with iOS 7 or Higher
iOS 7 makes screen rotation locking/unlocking even easier. To figure out whether screen rotation has been locked on your device, look next to the battery meter, in the top right corner of the screen, to see whether you find there an icon like a curved arrow surrounding a lock. If you do, just follow the instructions below.
How To Unlock Rotation On Iphone 7
- Swipe up from the bottom of the screen to launch the Control Center.
- Tap the icon which shows a lock and a curved arrow. When this icon is white, rotation lock is active. When it’s black, it is inactive.
- Tap the icon so that the lock disappears.
- Tap on the home button.
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That’s about it. Now you should be able to unlock rotation on your iPhone.