Rotate and Straighten Photos
About this QuickTip
Have you ever taken a great photo, only to find it’s sideways or slightly tilted? In this video, I’ll show you how to quickly rotate and straighten photos on your iPhone using the built-in editing tools. Whether you need to rotate by 90 degrees or make slight adjustments with the Auto tool, I’ll walk you through the simple steps to fix your pictures in seconds. No extra apps needed - just a quick and easy solution right inside the Photos app!
Transcript
As I’m scrolling through my photos, I took in London last week, I’ve noticed that one of those ones of me is actually taken sideways, and I need to rotate it. Well, it’s quite easy to do this on the iPhone, but the way to do it is actually a little bit hidden.
So, let me show you really quick. At the bottom of my screen, I’m going to tap on the editing button here that’s got, like, some little sliders on it. Then, when I’m in editing mode, I get these new tools that come up at the bottom of my screen. I’m going to tap onto Crop on the right-hand side, and at the top of my screen, there’s this little button here that I’m going to point out now.
This will rotate your image by 90°, which means I can put myself the right way up again—that’s much better! There’s actually another button at the top here as well that says Auto, and if I tap onto there, it’s going to rotate the image ever so slightly to try and straighten up the horizon or correct any vertical lines in the picture. So, it can be nice to do that as well.
Then, when I’m finished, I can just press Done, and it will save that new rotated picture for me in my Photo Library.
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Technical details: This QuickTip was recorded on an iPhone 16 Pro Max running iOS 18.3 in February 2025.
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