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FaceTime call will not rotate to landscape on Apple TV

I have been using FaceTime and AirPlay mirroring to put FaceTime calls on my living room TV via Apple TV for over 2 years. After the recent upgrade to iOS 8 and Apple TV the orientation is incorrect. I turn my iPhone to landscape orientation, but the video shows on the TV in portrait orientation, and the video is rotated 90 degrees. I believe this to be a bug in either the AppleTV update or iOS 8. Anyone else have this issue?

iPhone 5, iOS 8.1

Posted on Nov 4, 2014 11:06 AM

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Jan 27, 2015 9:51 PM in response to gunay

I updated to ios 8.1.3 today and despite what another user has posted, this issue has not been resolved for me. I am using Facetime on my iPhone 6 plus running ios 8.1.3 and I'm mirroring it using an Apple Lightening-HDMI connector to my TV. Although the orientation reflects properly on my iPhone's screen, the TV's orientation is incorrect when turning the phone to landscape. Am I missing something? Am I the only one having this specific issue?

Feb 13, 2015 5:03 PM in response to donbergen

+1 for a fix to this annoying problem. iPhone 6+ won't rotate into landscape. As someone else mentioned, when you start FaceTime its in Landscape and correct, but as soon as you call the orientation on the screen goes portrait, but inside the portrait the image is still Landscape. So the call is basically sideways! Someone's missing a -1 in a rotation matrix and/or orientation switch somewhere! Fix would be great.

Feb 17, 2015 5:10 PM in response to donbergen

I have this same issue with 8.1.3 on iPhone 6 and AppleTV3 with the latest release.


Disappointed with Apple and their bugs. They introduce some issue or the other issue every time they update Apple TV. Yosemite had the "crash to login screen" bug that they fixed in the latest update. iOS still has major issues.


Frankly my Windows 7 machine is a lot more stable than Mac OS or iOS. I have started to appreciate Microsoft a lot more after I bought my MacBook Air a few months ago.

FaceTime call will not rotate to landscape on Apple TV

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