iPhone 6/iOS 8 Portrait Rotation Lock

My new Iphone 6 will not rotate either, great quality control apple

Do you mean it won't rotate in general or on the home screen? The home screen won't rotate on the 6, just the plus.

I did a hard reset on it (based on other forums) and now it appears to be working now. Thanks

EXCELLENT!

Just swipe up and there is a rotation lock icon next to the moon/do not disturb. I pressed it and my issue is now fixed.

It isn't as simple as the rotation lock icon. The camera is supposed to rotate for correct picture taking, regardless of rotation lock being enabled. I live with rotation lock enabled, and take a couple dozen photos a day. Until my iPhone 6 and iOS 8 They always worked with correct rotation. Now, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Bug for sure...

Hi Paul, I did this over a week ago and I haven't had any issues since, not one. Try it and let me know if it helps.

Did some more testing and what has worked thus far is this: turn on reduce motion in accessibility and do a restart (hold home button and power button until phone restarts). Go back to accessibility and make sure reduce motion is still in the "on" position. Been working for almost a whole day.

Hi Applegenius1983, i had the same issue on my iPhone6.

Your solution worked for me.

Thank You.

I have had the issue occure on my iPhone 6 and iPad mini. Both running 8.0.2. I hope Apple is aware of the bug and fixes it in 8.1.

The Home screens on an iPhone 6 DO NOT ROTATE. Many apps support rotation but others do not.

Ralph9430 - We're not saying (at least most of us) that the home screen should rotate. We're saying apps aren't rotating. In my case, the camera...

Paul

Had the same problem, didn't notice it until I tried to use the scientific calculator, fixed by powering on and off, annoying!

Had this issue on my iPhone 6 running iOS 8.0.2. The temporary fix for me was to power cycle the phone although after time it would stop rotating again. The next temporary fix was mentioned earlier to disable Reachability.

I did a full restore and it has been 2 days without any issues nor having to disable Reachability. (Still rather slow compared to the rotation on iPhone 5s running iOS 7). Full restore took me close to 4 hours due to the amount of stuff I've accumulated since iPhone 3G days. Ugh

Disabling Reachability fixed the problem for me (at least temporarily). Display re-orientation is such a basic smartphone feature, it's amazing that Apple broke it. To disable Reachability go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Reachability (in the Interaction section).

PS: I also enabled Reduce Motion (also in Accessibility), but I don't think this had any effect.

Just want to chime in and say I experience the same bug: orientation is locked with the orientation lock disabled. The only thing that works is a reboot of the device. Hopefully Apple will read these posts and fix it soon. This is such a horrible bug, embarrassing really.