How to stop your iPhone screen from rotating? When Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone, one of the features that impressed everyone was the ability to rotating the screen. Rotating the screen of the iPhone or iPad is very useful in many situations, watching videos or images, surfing the Internet or playing games, but in others, we may not like and prefer to block this option.
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How to stop your iPhone screen from rotating?
There is a setting to enable or disable the lock, so if your iPhone or iPad screen does not rotate, this is what you should take into account.
If the screen of your iPhone or iPad does not rotate, it is probably due to this:
- Enter the Control Center of your iPhone or iPad.
- If you have a modern iPhone with Face ID or iPad, slide from the top right corner down.
- If you have an older iPhone with Touch ID or iPad, slide the screen up from the bottom of the screen.
- You will see an icon with a lock and an arrow, press it to disable it.
- Your iPhone or iPad screen will rotate freely again.
If after turning off the screen lock your iPhone or iPad still does not rotate, we recommend that you update your device or restart it.
How to rotate the screen on your iPhone or iPad if it is locked?
If you want your iPhone or iPad screen to rotate when it is locked, I’m sorry to say that this is not possible. There are certain apps or games that automatically rotate the screen even when it is locked, but there is no button to rotate it manually.
All you can do is slide the control center and turn off the screen rotation lock button, and turn it back on when you no longer want it to rotate.
If you want to block the rotating screen function of iPhone 12, iPhone 11, iPhone XS or any iPhone with Face ID it is done in the same way, just like on an iPad with the latest version of iPadOS. You must follow these steps:
- Enter the Control Center of your iPhone by sliding from the top right corner down.
- Click on the icon with a lock and an arrow to lock the rotation of the screen.
If you have an iPhone SE, iPhone 8, iPhone 7, or other iPhone with a Touch ID, follow these steps:
- Enter the Control Center of your iPhone by sliding from the bottom to the top.
üClick on the icon with a padlock and an arrow to lock the turn of the screen.
Hopefully, you have learned how to stop your iPhone screen from rotating with this simple button that we all have in the Control Center.
