Home screen rotate iPhone Xs Max not working

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!

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.

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!

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.

1. Press and quickly release the Volume Up button.
2. Press and quickly release the Volume Down button.
3. Then, press and hold the Power button on the side of your iPhone and then release when the device restarts.

After the phone reboots, try to launch apps that work on both portrait and landscape modes and see if the problem is fixed.

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!

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.

The email app rotates for me, just not the home screen. Swiping down in the right corner does not open any option to do so as someone said Google suggested.

If it isn't just me, then I guess "it's the way Apple wants it".... just as they wont allow me to stream music to my 30 pin Zeppelin Air from iTunes anymore, but that's another matter, sorry for the rant. 😉

This is the same issue I am having. I'm on the GM build of iOS 12, and do not have rotation lock enabled, and I used the Quick Setup feature today to set up my XS Max. With the largest screen ever in an iPhone, you'd think they'd keep a feature that my wife's 6s Plus has.

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.

It seems to be a major defect in the XS Max. I think a better feature would be to use back inductive pulse from the Qi coil to deliver a 14kV jolt to anyone who presses record in portrait mode.

Now the Xs Max does not work with Apple TV because you need to keep turning your head and you need to keep rotating the phone to open landscape apps.

The other disastrous effect of this flaw will be an even greater proliferation of portrait mode videos because people are too lazy to turn their phone before and after launching the camera app.

For the first time in a long time I am considering returning this iPhone before the 15 day return period ends.

Ez! Rotate screen orientation of iPhone XS Max by swipe down top right corner. See rotate icon. Tap on. Tap off. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.howtoisolve.com/turn-on-turn-off-auto-rotate-sc reen-on-iphone-x/amp/

Darkmom05

Ez! Rotate screen orientation of iPhone XS Max by swipe down top right corner. See rotate icon. Tap on. Tap off. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.howtoisolve.com/turn-on-turn-off-auto-rotate-sc reen-on-iphone-x/amp/

This controls the rotation for apps, not the home screen (which is what this thread is about)...

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.

Here is what I did to fix this: Placed iPhone XS Max in Original package and sent it right back within 30 day return policy. Then I went and bought an iPhone 8 Plus (product RED) for over $1100 less than the price of the Max. Best Apple related decision I ever made. $1800 for large memory iPhone Max with Apple Care is ridiculous.... and it can't even do what my awesome iPhone 8 plus can do. Plus I get to unlock the iPhone without picking it up and staring at it.

I should have done that and, almost, did. It’s ridiculous that they can’t figure out how to make the camera work in landscape position...or whatever they have to do to make the screen rotate. You’d think that a near trillion dollar company would have the tech support needed to fix this problem.