Hi
Does anyone know how to get the home screen on an iPhone Xs Max to rotate.
I have checked that the rotate lock is not on. I'm guessing the issue results from the fact that i restored from a backup of a iPhone X. Rotate is working within apps. I'm trying to avoid having to do a full reset as a i'm one of the strange people who like the rotating home screen .......
iPhone Xs Max, iOS 12
This worked for me:
Solution #1: Restart your iPhone (Forced restart).
If the iPhone XS Max screen suddenly won’t rotate after updating, chances are that the update had caused minor issues to the phone’s display settings. Usually minor software glitches are rectified by a device restart. If you haven’t already, then you should consider restarting or soft reset as the first possible solution to try. This won’t affect your phone’s internal data so you don’t need to create backups.
After the phone reboots, try to launch apps that work on both portrait and landscape modes and see if the problem is fixed.
This worked for me:
Solution #1: Restart your iPhone (Forced restart).
If the iPhone XS Max screen suddenly won’t rotate after updating, chances are that the update had caused minor issues to the phone’s display settings. Usually minor software glitches are rectified by a device restart. If you haven’t already, then you should consider restarting or soft reset as the first possible solution to try. This won’t affect your phone’s internal data so you don’t need to create backups.
After the phone reboots, try to launch apps that work on both portrait and landscape modes and see if the problem is fixed.
I've been wondering about this for quite some time and finally found my way to this thread. If you're new here like me, HOME SCREEN rotation is simply not supported on the Xs Max at this time. I bothered to read the thread before I posted. The details as to why are all in there but that's the bottom line.
What's even more astounding than the fact that it's not supported, is the sheer number of people that just posted answers with absolutely no clue as to what the REAL question was. Un-freakin-believable. And we wonder why society is doomed. Some people are so dying to speak that they never bother to listen first. Witness no more than this very thread as evidence.
(This response was not intended to be directed specifically at Darkmom05. I did not see the general reply at the top before I made this post originally as I am not intimately familiar with the forum's support formats and software. Please forgive that oversight.)
What worked for me was; Tap volume up, then down, then hold power button. The screen will give you a slider to turn off.
apparently that's a different type of restart that fixes things.
Because I have the same issue, I had chat with apple technicians, and he said that this is normal for iPhone xs max. The iPhone xs max doesn’t have the feature of home screen rotate. The portrait orientation is the only orientation of home screen for iPhone Cs Max. This is unbelievably & extremely disappointing to me.
I am hoping the coming iOS update contains this feature so that I can rotate my home screen.
It is unbelievable still.
FINALLY...
I have found a solution...Download a 3rd party app that records video (e.i. ProMovie) I personally tried ProMovie and it works great!
It really ticks me off Apple hasn't added home screen rotation on the XS Max. The entire point of buying the larger Plus and Max phones is to get the iPad like UI because the display is so large. What's the point of getting a Max if it doesn't do anything different other than blow up all the icons and text? Even the Xs has tabbed browsing now in landscape in Safari and 50% of apple's stock apps work in landscape mode on the Xs. The XS Max landscape split view ***** now too compared the Plus, it's not even true split view, apps like Files, Mail has the left menu pop in and out and in so it's basically useless. I don't buy for a second Apple doesn't allow landscape home screen because of Face ID either. Why would you ever need to use Face ID on the home screen? You could never unlock a Plus in landscape either so it's not because of the lock screen. It's such a poor UX when 55% of the Max allows landscape apps and then you go the the home screen or music and have to rotate the phone again. Apple needs to fix this or more and more people like the people here are going to return/not even buy the Max because it doesn't even do anything the XS doesn't, so what's the point!
This does not work on xs max
Hey, I had this problem and googled it. You have to drag from top right hand corner and the menu that used to be there when you swiped up from bottom of screen. Gives quick access to brightness, camera, music shuffle and screen rotation.
The Plus models had a rotating home screen, but that doesn't work on the XS Max (yet?).
Maybe it has something to do with the "home swipe". There's no indicating line on the home screen like within apps to identify where to swipe to get home.
From what i was told the Xs Max won’t be able to rotate due to Face ID! Something to do with the cameras being fixed in portrait mode and not being able to pick up your face in landscape so they allow you to use landscape everywhere else messages, notes. Settings etc but just not on the actual home screen! I heard it may be an update soon! Hopefully one day the whole phone every app will be able to!
Really hope so. Seem's like a lot of Plus users are upset with the XS Max UX experience as it's a step backwards. Being able to use the larger iPhones like a little iPad is one of the only real benefits of having the larger display. Loosing landscape home screen ***** bad and I don't think it has anything to do with Face ID as you couldn't actually unlock a Plus model in landscape either, it wasn't until the device was unlocked that it could actually be rotated and used solely in landscape, so Face ID not working in landscape is not the issue. I think it's more so the notch and what to do about the dock when rotating the device. It also ***** how Mail/Files and others now loose the static split view in favor of that annoying side menu that constantly slides in and out. Really hope in a future update Apple reverts to Landscape home screen and all the split view apps how they work on the Plus models. Otherwise there is no point to getting the large model any more.
The home screen will not rotate.
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Greetings, Dbreeney.
Congratulations on your new iPhone Xs Max! I see that you like to use your iPhones in landscape mode instead of portrait mode. The problem is, the Home screen of iPhone Xs Max won't rotate, and I'm happy to help.
If the screen doesn't rotate on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch -- Review the information and use the steps provided in this support article.
Let me know how that goes, and take care!
I am having the same problem and have had no luck. I have tried the solution on the link and that did not work. I have also tried changing the view settings from zoomed to standard -- which also did not work. Please advise on any further potential fixes. Thanks!
Home screen rotate iPhone Xs Max not working
