IOS 8 landscape bug

And just why can't he post? I don't have the issue and I've posted to this thread as well. Surely you wouldn't be suggesting the only people allowed to post should have an issue? Anyone can post as long as they aren't disrespectful. And people posting that they don't have an issue offers a balanced view as not everyone IS having an issue.

At any rate there's no point in debating this any further. It's evident it's no hardware failure as it's only begun to occur since updating to iOS 8. I have it on my iPhone 6, and since updating to iOS 8 both my Mum and my partner have been experiencing it on their Phones 5S.

Not at all suggesting he shouldn't post. It just appeared that he was suggesting there was no issue since he wasn't having it. My apologies for any misreads.

Footballer70 wrote:

At any rate there's no point in debating this any further. It's evident it's no hardware failure as it's only begun to occur since updating to iOS 8. I have it on my iPhone 6, and since updating to iOS 8 both my Mum and my partner have been experiencing it on their Phones 5S.

Then how do you explain the likely millions of people who have an iPhone 6 who do not have any orientation issues? Not one person I know who has an iPhone 6 has an orientation issue. There are several people in my office who have iPhone 5 who upgraded to iOS 8 who do not have an orientation issue. How do you explain that? I'm not doubting those who have the issue and I'm sure it's quite real and also frustrating. But I am doubting it's absolutely a software issue.

Thanks!

I have gone through the whole reset, backup - restore - recover, discharge - charge dance, which its ridiculous in the first place for a brand new phone. There is a simple reason why some people see the bug and some don't: no two configurations are equal, and there is a combination of factors that makes the BUG appear. In my case, when the zoomed option is active in the brighness screen the BUG appears and disappears at random. If the zoomed is off, the BUG goes away. But lets be crystal clear, since my 64Gb iPhone 6 is not hacked in any way, all settings are within normal parameters, all apps are well known and Apple-approved, the simple fact that I cannot use the zoomed option makes it a BUG. It may be a very specific BUG, that requires a "magical" combination of perfectly ordinary settings, but it is quite clearly a BUG that needs to be addressed, since many people have the same "magical" combination.

Now, there seems to be a semantic issue regarding the bug word, perhaps in a misguided attempt to protect Apples reputation, clearly from people that do not develop software and have no experience with software bugs. Some bugs are hard to reproduce, and most bugs DO NOT affect everybody, if they did, they would probably have been caught in testing phase inside Apple. It does not make the bug less valid, or immaginary, or hardware related. In my opinion, and yes, I am a developer and have dealt with bugs all my life, its a simple software issue. That is why this thread, and so many others started, not to defend Apple or to pretend that the users are to blame for their problems, since they have not restore-restarted-reseted or whatever.

Thanks for putting it so succinctly.

And as far as the very few people who appear to be defending Apple on this bug, I would encourage others to not feed the trolls (by getting into ridiculous debates of hardware issue vs bug) but instead please post the issues that you are facing along with any pointers that you feel could help replicate this issue more consistently.

Orientation related problems have now also been described on MacRumors, Reddit and GottaBeMobile among other places, all related to iOS 8, so lets hope monday we all get a solution on 8.1 so we can put this issue to rest.

Problems with orientation are also manifesting themselves on the iPhone 6 Plus - in an even more bizarre manner. To all those who still wonder whether their phone's gyroscope is at fault, this seems to suggest that it's an iOS 8 software bug:

It's not a hardware problem so far as I am concerned. Hardware problem would indicate that the accelerometers are "sticking" and making the phone think it's actually upside down.

The weird thing is - on mine, when this happens, the springboard screen is completely upside down upon unlock. If I continue to hold the phone right side up and I open any apps - they will correctly launch in the home button-down orientation. Once I leave said app, springboard is still upside down.

If it were an accelerometer (hardware) issue - then the apps would also load in the incorrect (upside down) orientation. It simply is a bug with Springboard and I have no idea how to reproduce it - but I can say that it seems to randomly just decide to wake from sleep upside down.

For me - the only way to "resolve" the issue is to restart the phone by either powering off and back on, or by holding both buttons until I see the apple icon (warm reboot).

For clarity - I am using a 128GB 6+

If you have restored as a NEW device and it's still doing it, please report it to Apple at http://apple.com/feedback.html. They won't get the news by you posting here.

According to Apple this was, in fact, a bug that has been resolved in todays update.

from release notes:

Fixes bugs that could cause screen rotation to stop working

Still broken in 8.1 for me. iPhone 5s will not rotate at all, even after resetting and rebooting.

My screen also went black again the first time I turned landscape but it hasn't froze up again. Yet. Running 8.1

As most of us guessed, it was indeed a iOS 8 bug, and has been fixed. From the iOS 8.1 list of fixed bugs:

Fixes bugs that could cause screen rotation to stop working

Same problem from the beginning + the bluetooth connectivity issue .....this is like having a windows phone 😟