Can you lock an iPhone in landscape orientation?

Question

Can an iPhone be locked to the landscape orientation the way an iPad can be locked?

Answer 1

In contrast to iPads, iPhones do not give you the opportunity to lock the screen to the horizontal position. For those who need the device to stay in one position for particular tasks like utilizing the iPhone as a teleprompter, this can be inconvenient.

Comments

As a convert-Apple user, I miss the little “do you wanna rotate your screen?” button that Android shows in the corner when you rotate the phone with rotation locked. Only being able to lock portrait and not landscape is stupid

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I'm glad someone addressed the landscape oriented problem. As a left handed person I somehow always opened something "wrong" showing the app upside down. The flip was almost every time from muscle memory. Just let me hold it how I want.

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As an iOS Developer, this is a setting we can control and set to lock a specific rotation. We have 4 checkboxes, which are, portrait, upside down, landscape left and landscape right. In theory, you could lock it to be only upside down. In this case, this seems to be a decision made by the developers of Jetpack Joyride to lock it to a landscape orientation, presumably to stop it from automatically rotating on accident when playing the game. (Which would play a whole animation, therefore stopping the game flow) As a long time iOS fan and developer, I do however not see any reason why they shouldn't have a landscape mode for lock orientation, so your point still stands. But I just wanted to make this case clear.

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I had never thought about the screen rotate issue until I switched to Android recently and I just cannot look at my iPhone the same anymore

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Aside from the landscape lock thing, one other thing I really hate is how much time you waste turning off Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, like when I go to the control center, it doesn't actually turn off (it automatically turns back on in the morning). You have to go the settings just to completely turn it off, while it's just one swipe and one tap in Android.

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That’s something developers configure, they can allow any of the 4 rotations. So it’s not a “apple requires you to hold it in a certain way” thing, it’s more of a “I didn’t do research and this particular developer seemed to have decided this”

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I have a hyper specific android to iOS gripe that upsets me to no end: rotation lock applies to full screen content. On android I have rotation lock on all the time as I frequently use my phone in bed. But on iOS this is significantly more annoying because with the lock on, full screening content means it opens in portrait. Meaning you must unlock rotation to watch in landscape. But if you’re lying on your side and rotation is unlocked, when you’re finished and go to the home or subscription feed, every other app ever will flip over into landscape and look awful.
Meanwhile on android, rotation lock doesn’t affect full screen videos so you don’t have to disable it.