iPhone 6 Plus Home Screen Not Rotating? It’s Your Display Settings
One of the more interesting features that arrived with the larger screen iPhone models is the ability to view the devices Home Screen, where app icons are shown, in a rotated sideways horizontal format. This places the Dock onto the side, and kind of resembles a tiny iPad. To rotate the iPhone Home Screen, you simply need to turn the iPhone into a horizontal position, and as long as Orientation Lock is not on, it will rotate. Usually.
Sometimes the Home Screen does not rotate while other app screens do rotate, however, but the reason for this is quite simple; it’s the iPhones Display Zoom settings.
Basically, you have to enable home screen rotation on iPhone 6 Plus by not using the Zoomed view:
1. Open the Settings app on the iPhone and head to “Display & Brightness”
2. Under the “Display Zoom” section, tap on “View”
3. Choose the “Standard” view, then choose “Set” and confirm the settings change
4. Return back to the Home Screen of the iPhone and rotate the device sideways into landscape mode to rotate the Home Screen
Important: Always check to make sure Orientation Lock is not turned on, visible by a little lock icon with a arrow around it in the status bar. That setting will interfere with the ability for the screen to rotate in all views of iPhone, whether in specific apps or just the icon filled Home screen of the device.
If you have the display set to “Standard” and the Orientation Lock turned off and the screen is still not rotating, try placing the iPhone into landscape mode and giving it a good shake, sometimes the accelerometer becomes unresponsive or less sensitive and this almost always resolves that issue.
Myself and many other users have a strong preference to use the Zoom View, it makes everything on the big screen appear larger and easier to read (that alone makes a very strong argument for picking iPhone Plus, though it will spoil you), but the Zoom view does not allow for Home Screen rotation. Thus, if you want to rotate the view where your icons display and have the iOS Dock on the left or right side of your iPhone screen, you must use the “Standard” view for the devices display. With the Home Screen rotating, you can think of the iPhone Plus as a smaller iPad, which also has the same rotation ability, except that the Dock gets rotated with it. Simple enough, right?
http://osxdaily.com/2015/02/20/rotate-iphone-home-screen/
Sometimes the Home Screen does not rotate while other app screens do rotate, however, but the reason for this is quite simple; it’s the iPhones Display Zoom settings.
Basically, you have to enable home screen rotation on iPhone 6 Plus by not using the Zoomed view:
1. Open the Settings app on the iPhone and head to “Display & Brightness”
2. Under the “Display Zoom” section, tap on “View”
3. Choose the “Standard” view, then choose “Set” and confirm the settings change
4. Return back to the Home Screen of the iPhone and rotate the device sideways into landscape mode to rotate the Home Screen
Important: Always check to make sure Orientation Lock is not turned on, visible by a little lock icon with a arrow around it in the status bar. That setting will interfere with the ability for the screen to rotate in all views of iPhone, whether in specific apps or just the icon filled Home screen of the device.
If you have the display set to “Standard” and the Orientation Lock turned off and the screen is still not rotating, try placing the iPhone into landscape mode and giving it a good shake, sometimes the accelerometer becomes unresponsive or less sensitive and this almost always resolves that issue.
Myself and many other users have a strong preference to use the Zoom View, it makes everything on the big screen appear larger and easier to read (that alone makes a very strong argument for picking iPhone Plus, though it will spoil you), but the Zoom view does not allow for Home Screen rotation. Thus, if you want to rotate the view where your icons display and have the iOS Dock on the left or right side of your iPhone screen, you must use the “Standard” view for the devices display. With the Home Screen rotating, you can think of the iPhone Plus as a smaller iPad, which also has the same rotation ability, except that the Dock gets rotated with it. Simple enough, right?
http://osxdaily.com/2015/02/20/rotate-iphone-home-screen/
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