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    Rotate HEIC

    Fix iPhone photos that appear sideways or upside down in other apps. Rotate or flip a whole batch and save them with the pixels genuinely upright, so they look right everywhere.

    Drop HEIC photos here

    HEIC, HEIF · also JPG, PNG, WebP

    How to use it

    Rotate HEIC in 3 steps

    1. 1

      Drop your sideways HEIC photos above.

    2. 2

      Choose 90° left, 90° right, 180°, or flip horizontally or vertically. It applies to every photo you added.

    3. 3

      Download the upright photos as JPG, PNG, WebP or HEIC, one by one or as a ZIP.

    The sideways photo mystery

    You take a perfectly upright photo on your iPhone. You open it on a laptop, upload it to a form, or play it on the TV, and there it is, lying on its side. Nothing is wrong with the photo. It’s a disagreement about how to read it.

    Why some apps get orientation wrong

    A camera sensor has one fixed shape. When you hold the phone in portrait, the camera can either rotate the pixels before saving or save them as-is and add a note saying “turn this 90° when you display it”. That note is the orientation tag in the photo’s metadata.

    Apple’s apps read the tag and show the photo upright. Other software is less consistent:

    • Older desktop apps may ignore the tag entirely
    • Website upload forms sometimes strip metadata, tag and all, leaving raw sideways pixels
    • TVs and digital photo frames often skip it
    • Some converters apply the tag and keep it, so a later app rotates the photo twice

    The result is the same each time: a photo that looks right on your phone and wrong elsewhere.

    The fix: upright pixels, no guessing

    This tool rotates the actual pixels, then saves a file that is upright as stored. With nothing left for another app to interpret, the photo can’t be misread again. It’s the dependable fix when you need a photo to display correctly on systems you don’t control.

    Rotate and flip options

    Option Use it when
    90° right The top of the photo is pointing left
    90° left The top of the photo is pointing right
    180° The photo is upside down
    Flip horizontal A selfie is mirrored and text reads backwards
    Flip vertical A reflection or scan came out upside-down and mirrored

    Whatever you choose is applied to every photo in the batch. If some photos need left and others right, run two quick batches.

    Before you upload anywhere

    Sideways photos are a common reason documents get rejected or look unprofessional. Rotate first, then crop or resize as needed. If the real issue is that Windows won’t open HEIC at all, see Convert HEIC for Windows.

    Fixed on your device

    Rotation happens in your browser. Your photos are never uploaded, and your GPS location is removed from JPG, PNG and WebP output by default while the date and camera details stay.

    FAQ

    Questions, answered

    Why does my iPhone photo show sideways on my computer?

    iPhones often save the photo in the sensor's orientation and add a tag saying how to turn it for display. Apps that ignore or misread that tag show it sideways.

    Why does it look fine on my iPhone but not on a website?

    Your iPhone reads the orientation tag. Some websites, upload forms, older apps and TVs don't, so they show the raw pixels as stored.

    How does rotating here fix it permanently?

    We save the pixels themselves in the upright position. There is nothing left for another app to misinterpret, so the photo looks the same everywhere.

    Can I rotate several photos at once?

    Yes. The rotation or flip you choose is applied to all files in the batch. Group photos that need the same fix, then run each group.

    Does rotating reduce image quality?

    The photo is re-encoded, but at the default quality of 92 the difference isn't visible. PNG output is lossless if you want zero change in detail.

    Why would I flip a photo?

    Selfies are sometimes mirrored, which makes text read backwards. A horizontal flip puts it the right way round.

    Can I keep the photo as HEIC?

    Yes, pick HEIC as the output. It's slower to encode and has no quality slider, and metadata isn't written to HEIC output.

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