iOS 8.4 screen rotation not working

Totally agree, bud... And thanks for the workaround.

It was another user who said we had a "solution", and on forums like these, that concerns me...

I'd hate for the press, or Apple, to think that we have a solution for this silly issue.. When in reality, we do not.

Having said that... Your workaround sounds great!

Great catch SergZak. I'll repost it below. Now fire up the grill and enjoy the day.

Level 5(5,460 points) SergZakJul 4, 2015 6:30 AM Re: iOS 8.4 screen rotation not working
Re: iOS 8.4 screen rotation not workingin response to happycard

I seem to have found the setting that causes the rotation issue is manifest itself. If would help if others could try this and report back...If the Reduce Motion setting is turned ON under Settings/General/Accessibility/Reduce Motion, the screen will not rotate correctlyIf the Reduce Motion setting is turned OFF under Settings/General/Accessibility/Reduce Motion, the screen will rotate correctlyI have always enabled Reduce Motion since it was introduced in iOS 7 as it is just personally annoying to me.Also note that this setting does not affect the ~1 second delayed startup. This seems to point to the two issues (delayed unlock & no screen rotation) now being unrelated as I originally thought.

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It works. I was going to leave a message that everyone who was helped by your solution should mark the post on page 4 as this helped me. Unfortunately 4 people already marked it as helpful. So with my vote you were voted in as a helpful answer. Well done.

No problem, buddy. As long as I could provide a work-around for other users with the issue & was able to discover cause/effect for my own peace of mind, that's more than enough for me. Like I mentioned before in another post, I've been doing this kind of thing for over 30 years beginning with Apple & Atari computers. It's pretty much what I strive for (solving/discovering issues)...although I do seem to be getting much lazier about it after all this time. 😉

Thank you! It's good to have this work-around. I will stay with 8.4 now.

Same here, when I press the off button and then home button my screen is in the right orientation... love this new feature.. ;-)

Hey all,

i just wanted to let you know that deactivated the Reduce Motion feature last night (was ready to grin and bare the fly-ins and fly-outs!), yet unfortunately, the rotation lock issue reared its ugly head twice this morning...

If it works for y'all, then great!

But no dice here at my end.

@Serg - my first computer was a TRS-80 Model III. I splurged and even got the top of the line 16KB version! 🙂

Count me in, I'm also having this annoying problem. After updating to 8.4 ota, the auto rotation doesn't work and I t's not locked. I have to push the on/off button and then the home button to make it rotate again. I have tried hard resetting the iPad, but that doesn't work. I have the latest iPad Air 2 Wifi

Definitely a good workaround for now. Thank-you. However a bit disappointing such a thing happens during an upgrade to 8.4.

I Am working off an iPad Air 2 64GB WiFi.

THank you. IPad Air2 64GB

Now that I turned on the motion feature on all my iOS devices, I really like the feature.

All rotation works fine.

I still having the rotation problem even with recommened settings off. Pretty annoying..,Amy more suggestions?

using a IPad Air 2 64gb.

Is it possibly to return to 8.3 ? If so - would you let me now how please?

Thank you in advance!!

Graham

Danny_B wrote:

I' facing the same issue.

Problem occurs on iPad Air 2, iOS 8.4 only at "first" wake up after it was locked for minutes.

On my iPad it can be fixed by just another lock and unlock.

Perhaps it could be related to iOS 8.4 slow wake on iPad Air 2

This is what I've seen too. A quick lock/unlock clears it. A pain, but it works.