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by lotsofpulp 2282 days ago
Only for portrait mode. Never made sense to me why they only allow locking in one orientation and not landscape.
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gtufano 2282 days ago
It's "lock rotation", not "lock portrait". If you have the device in landscape when you lock it, it will lock in landscape.
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lotsofpulp 2282 days ago
I just did it on an iphone 6S Plus and an iPhone XS both with ios13+, and while in landscape, if I press lock rotation, it changes to portrait and then locks it.

I’ve experienced this since iPhone 3G or iPhone 4, so I assume this is how they have designed it.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8237975

This website shows a workaround for it:

https://www.igeeksblog.com/how-to-lock-rotation-in-iphone-la...

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manigandham 2281 days ago
No, the feature is called "Portrait Orientation Lock" - it will only lock it in portrait mode and not landscape.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204547

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