landscape lock rotation

Double click the home button, swipe to the right, the lock button is on the left, but that only locks the iPhone in the portrait mode. Doesn't allow you to lock in landscape mode.

Unlike the iPad there doesn't seem to be a way on the phone itself to lock rotation like you want to do.

Those are a couple of differences between the iPhone and iPad...and on the iPhone the home screen won't rotate from portrait at all.

Such is life 🙂

rotation and defult orientation is all down to the app.

i have some that dont rotate. i have some that only rotate portrate and landscape left and others that rotate all of the way around so you can use the iphone upside down if you want! some will even lock to a selected orientation by default when you open the app.

if this is to use a specific app, it may be worthwhile dropping the developer a line to see if they can write an update. developers love this kind of feed back.

1) Enable 'Assistive Touch' (Settings > General > Accessibility > Assistive Touch)

2) Lock portrait orientation (i.e. double tap Home, swipe right, touch the lock orientation button)

3) Open an app that supports landscape viewing (such as Safari, Notes, etc.)

4) Touch the little black square with a circle inside (open the assistive touch menu)

5) Touch 'Device' > 'Rotate Screen' > 'Left' or 'Right' (then click outside the black square to exit the menu)

Your phone is now locked in landscape orientation until you exit to the homescreen or any other app (if the new app supports landscape you can just go from step 4) as the orientation will still be locked as before.

Wi11, there are a LOT of steps to your post but it gets the job done and at least shows that this is possible! Thank you!! Just trying to get used to the little grey circle on my screen, which has to be moved around sometimes. I'll keep it for a few days and see how it goes.

No it doesn't. It still rotates!

oh thank you finally someone who knows!!!!

owner of a ipod touch 5 and it works THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi My iphone 4s would previously rotate depending on how i held it e.g. portrait or landscape now i can see nothing in landscape, the above answer did not work for me. Can you help me out with this one? Thank you

Maybe you accidentally locked your phone in portrait mode?

How would it lock in portrait mode? It only happened when I did the upgrade, if you could explain how i could have done this that would be great? Thaank you 🙂

So if you have iOS 7, flick up from the bottom of any home screen or App. You should see a summary of the settings area, the Control Center. The top right button should be the Potrait lock icon. If it is white, you are locked in portrait mode and can tap it again to exit the Portrait lock. If it's black/grayed out, then I'm probably kind of full of it 😐 😀

iOS: Understanding Control Center

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5858

Your a star, thank you very much indeed, do you know anything about the camera? As when i take a picture zoomed in it is always grainy and all my friends iphone 4s do not do this?

Thank you so much for your help 🙂

Unfortunately, I do not. I just have a 4, and I've heard the camera truly became Amazing with either 4s or 5

The fact that it works in "assistive mode" proves that there's really no reason why it can't be done. But thus is typical Apple ******** - making it hard for users to do something that their hardware and software supports perfectly well.

And while I'm ******** about Apple - why does rotation depend on the app? If I want to rotate the screen the OS should just tell the app that the screen dimensions have changed and then display it the way I want. Again - this exemplifies Apple philosophy. I will never buy an Apple Device. The only reason I have one is because my work bought it for me.