How to Rotate a Video You Recorded the Wrong Way on Your iPhone

Are landscape videos showing up as portraits on your iPhone? Here’s a quick and easy solution to fix the video orientation of your iPhone videos.

Have you ever filmed a nice landscape video, only to find out it has been recorded as a portrait video when you replay it?

Fortunately, you don’t have to record everything all over again. It’s easy to correct this minor mistake. Here, we look at how you can rotate your video to the correct orientation in the Photos app.

How to Rotate an iPhone Video Using the Photos App

When your video is recorded the wrong way, rotating your video in the Photos app is the simplest and fastest method. So, follow these steps:

1. Go to the Photos app and tap on your video.
2. Tap Edit at the top-right corner.
3. Select the Crop tool from the bottom menu. Then, tap the Rotate icon in the top-left corner, which shows as a square with a curved arrow.
4. Tap the Rotate icon once to rotate 90 degrees, twice for 180 degrees, and so on, until you have the orientation you want.
5. Hit Done to save your changes.

Of course, there is more than one method to rotate an iPhone video. For example, you can use iPhone video editing apps to get the job done as well.

On a similar note, if it’s a batch of images with the wrong orientation, there’s a shortcut you can create to bulk-rotate photos on your iPhone.

How to Ensure Your iPhone Camera Isn’t Rotated the Wrong Way

There’s a quick tip you can apply to prevent recording a video in the wrong orientation. Let’s say you want to record a landscape video. Hold your iPhone horizontally as usual, but before tapping the red Record button, check that the zoom indicator (0.5x and 1x) has also rotated to landscape.

The same concept applies when recording a portrait video.

Easily Correct Your iPhone’s Video Orientation

With the Photos app, rotating an iPhone video is incredibly simple, and it can be completed within seconds. All you need to do is edit the video and use the built-in rotate option.

But to prevent this extra task next time, you can use the zoom indicator as a guide before recording. This way, you can ensure that your iPhone camera records your video with the correct orientation.