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Change or lock the screen orientation on iPhone

Many apps give you a different view when you rotate iPhone.

In the background, iPhone displays a Calendar screen, showing one day’s events in portrait orientation; in the foreground, iPhone is rotated to landscape orientation, which displays the Calendar events for the whole week containing the same day.

Lock or unlock the screen orientation

You can lock the screen orientation so that it doesn’t change when you rotate iPhone.

Open Control Center, then tap .

When the screen orientation is locked, appears in the status bar (on supported models).

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