Surely on more than one occasion you have taken a photo or made a video and verified afterwards that it has been rotated. Turning your head or mobile is perhaps not the most comfortable option, so it is best to place it. If you are new to iOS, don’t worry, as we’ll show you how to rotate photos and videos on an iPhone below.
Rotate images from the Photos app
From the native Photos application, the one you have on the iPhone apps screen, you can carry out this process. In fact, you are going to check that it is extremely easy, although it is understandable that you did not notice before the possibility even if you have been on your phone for a long time.
If you go to Photos and open the image you want to rotate, you will see that at the top right there is an option called Edit . If you click on it, the editing interface will open in which you can change certain parameters of the snapshot such as its brightness, contrast, add filters and many other options. However, what is interesting in this case is to rotate the photo, for which you must click on the icon located to the right, before “Ok”.
You can now manipulate the framing of the image in several ways. You can crop it if you want to remove unwanted parts, straighten it with the bottom bar, change its perspective with the icons above the bar, and of course rotate it. To do this you must click on the second icon above starting from the left, which will allow you to rotate the image 90 degrees each time you press. The first icon will allow you to flip the photo , so that it stays in mirror mode (or is fixed if the photo was already in this mode).
Rotate videos on an iPhone
Natively
Actually the options for video are almost identical to those for photos. In fact, the way to access the editing panel is the same, having to also go to the specific video and click Edit. Once accessed, we find certain differences in the editing panel, such as being able to trim the video in the bottom bar. However, you have to click on the last icon before “ok” and you will now access the functions to rotate the videos, change the perspective or put them in mirror mode.
Through iMovie
This is an application designed by Apple and used to make edits somewhat more complex than the photo app, although without reaching a professional level. The good thing about having it installed and using it to trim videos is that, by the way, you will be able to make other deeper edits such as the addition of effects, transitions, texts and more . For the purpose of rotating the videos you must follow these steps:
- Open iMovie on the iPhone.
- Click on “Create project”.
- Choose the “Movie” option .
- Your gallery of photos and videos will appear in the form of a grid and you must click on the video you want to rotate.
- Once you have selected the video you want, you must click on “Create movie” (bottom of the screen).
- To rotate the video you will have to use two fingers on the video and simulate that you rotate it. The video will rotate from 90 to 90 degrees and if you want to rotate it to the right, you must rotate it with your fingers to that side or vice versa if you want to rotate it to the left.
- Once the video is established in the desired position, click on “Done” in the upper left.
Once you do this you can save the video in your gallery or share it through various services such as AirDrop, messaging applications and more. To do this you just have to press the share icon that appears at the bottom of the screen, towards the middle.