Your iPhone is the best tool for capturing the perfect photo anytime, anywhere. But there can be times when you capture a photo in a different orientation and later wish to change it.

Don’t blame or be hard on yourself for not getting the perfect angle or focus for your photos. Your iPhone has some easy hacks for fixing such issues. In this guide, we'll show you how to rotate a picture on iPhone with ease.

 

Why rotate pictures on an iPhone?

1. Pictures taken upside down in a hurry can be re-oriented.
2. Portrait pictures with a picturesque background can be rotated to landscape orientation.
3. Rotate or flip photos upside down or by 180° to edit photos and create unique collages.
4. Angular rotations can help adjust pictures to scale.

 

How to rotate a picture on iPhone with the Photos App?

Rotating iPhone pictures or photos is an instant task with a handy tool available in the Photos App. Follow these simple steps to rotate pictures on your iPhone for free.

1. Open the Photos App and choose the picture you wish to rotate.
2. Click the Edit option in the top-right corner.
3. Click on the “Rotate-Crop” icon and locate the ‘Rotate’ square icon in the top-left corner.
4. Click the Rotate icon to rotate the image by 90°.
5. Click on the Rotate icon more than once for further rotations.
6. Once rotated, click on Done.

If you wish to retain the original image as well, make sure you save a copy of the original orientation before performing the rotation.

 

How to tilt or slightly rotate a picture on iPhone with the Photos App?

Sometimes, when you click a picture, the focus objects may not be on the same axis as your iPhone's. This slight disorientation may happen when your hand is shaky or when you click images fast without the right focus.

No problem at all! You can quickly alter such scaling errors by using the “Straighten” option when rotating images with the Photos App.

The Straighten option helps you rotate the image by a few degrees to the left or right so that the focus object of your image appears “straight” along the main line of focus.

Follow these steps to perform angular rotations to tilt and straighten a picture on an iPhone.

1. Open the target picture in the Photos App and click on Edit.
2. Click on the “Rotate-crop” icon in the bottom menu.
3. Click on the first ‘Straighten’ option that pops up in the bottom menu. You will be able to see a scale.
4. Gently move the scale in left or right directions to tilt your image and get the perfect angle.
5. Once adjusted, click on Done.

 

Conclusion

Rotating a picture on an iPhone is easy. Using the built-in Rotate-Crop tool in the Photos app, you can do it within a few seconds.

You can choose to rotate an image by 90° or slightly tilt it until you get the desired rotation angle. Both these rotation methods provide precise results for pictures on your iPhone.

However, if you wish to rotate several images at once, you can choose any third-party app, such as Photoshop or Fotor. Leave a comment on what apps you would recommend for batch photo rotations. We will explore some of them and provide our analysis.