Rotation bug

[Dudley228]

I had it at times on the first Beta, but haven't seen it in the second.

 

[Chuck_IV]

It has always rotated for me but apps will sometimes not realize it is in landscape view and show the portrait size screen initially

Waze does this. When it happens, I ha e to go back to the home screen and then go back to Waze for it to correct itself.

 

[Premium1]

Just curious, is anyone else have a iOS 10 bug where screen rotation fails often? Just want to make sure it's not from dropping my phone. :/

I had it happen a few times with videos, but it is very random.

 

[goldassayer93555]

First thing to check!

Slide your finger up from the bottom of the screen to bring up the control panel.
Look for the padlock with a circular arrow around it and tap on it.

If it is white the screen rotation is locked if it is gray the screen rotation is free to rotate.

 

[Explosive Atom]

I have never dropped my IPAD, and I still can't rotate it...

 

[Explosive Atom]

Fixed it!! Hard start your device! Actually POWER DOWN by holding down on power button and then holding down again to start it back up again!

 

[Torch2]

I have an iPad Air2 and am experiencing this regularly. The hard reset is the only solution. This started after iOS 10.1 ARGH! I hope Apple gets the message and develops a fix to whatever they broke.

 

[hamandswiss]

Device: iPhone 6s / 64 mb / iOS 10.02
Problem Desc.: Doesn't rotate at all after iOS 10. 10.02 didn't resolve.

Thanks - looks as though I'm good now. Pulled up control panel as you advised and found the the padlock disabled or locked. Unlocked and now have screen rotation again. Thank you once again.

-hamandswiss

 

[hamandswiss]

Device: iPhone 6s / 64 mb / iOS 10.0.2
Problem Desc.: Doesn't rotate at all after iOS 10. 10.0.2 didn't resolve.

Thanks - looks as though I'm good now. Pulled up control panel as you advised and found the the padlock disabled or locked. Unlocked and now have screen rotation again. Thank you once again.

-hamandswiss

 

[Quis89]

This happens to me fairly often in Messages on my 7 Plus. I initially thought it had to do with my case but it happens periodically even outside of my case. Hopefully it's something Apple takes notice to.

 

[Quis89]

Fixed it!! Hard start your device! Actually POWER DOWN by holding down on power button and then holding down again to start it back up again!

I'm curious on the terminology here. In my experience, a "hard reset" meant that you were wiping your device. A "soft reset" was simply powering it down and back on again. Just for lack of confusion when providing advice, do most people understand a "hard reset" to be simply turning the phone off and back on again?

 

[forsythsteve]

Even better would be for Apple to fix it??

 

[Morac]

This started happening on average once a week since I updated my iPad Air 2 to iOS 10.

The only fix is to turn the iPad off and on again.

 

[TwitchyPuppy]

I'm curious on the terminology here. In my experience, a "hard reset" meant that you were wiping your device. A "soft reset" was simply powering it down and back on again. Just for lack of confusion when providing advice, do most people understand a "hard reset" to be simply turning the phone off and back on again?

When I want to say "force reset" (holding Power + Home buttons), I say force reboot to avoid confusion.
Because for me too, a reset means wiping your device.

 

[Rob Phillips]

I'm curious on the terminology here. In my experience, a "hard reset" meant that you were wiping your device. A "soft reset" was simply powering it down and back on again. Just for lack of confusion when providing advice, do most people understand a "hard reset" to be simply turning the phone off and back on again?

An age old argument that will never end!

 

[Rob Phillips]

When I want to say "force reset" (holding Power + Home buttons), I say force reboot to avoid confusion.
Because for me too, a reset means wiping your device.

The fun part is now going to be explaining to use the volume down button instead of the home button on iPhone 7/7+.

 

[doogald]

When I want to say "force reset" (holding Power + Home buttons), I say force reboot to avoid confusion.
Because for me too, a reset means wiping your device.

Me too.

Fwiw, Apple calls it "restart" and "force restart". That seems canonical to me.

See https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201559

 

[Morac]

I have a solution to this issue, it fixes it for me without reboot.

1. Orient the phone the way it is stuck.
2. Enable the orientation lock (Swipe up)
3. Wait 5 seconds
4. Return to home screen
5. Wait 5 seconds.
6. Lock screen.
7. Wait 5 seconds
8. Change the phone to portrait orientation in your hand
9. Unlock the phone.
10. Remove orientation lock from step 2

This works for me 90% of the time and is faster than a reboot.

just wanted to thank you and say this works like a charm, though frequently I need to repeat the steps (at most 3 times so far) to get the screen to rotate.

 

[pooar]

Happens to me frequently after closing clash of clans. Lol

 

[SimonAustin]

Yes, My iPhone 6 does. Worsely, it gets stuck in the multi-tasking screen!