How to rotate one or multiple photos at the same time on iPhone, iPad, and Mac

Learn how to quickly rotate one or multiple photos at once on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac in just a few simple steps, saving time and effort.

We’ve all been there: you want to take a photo in landscape mode, but before your iPhone’s accelerometer has come into action to rotate from portrait to landscape, you’ve already taken the shot. The result is a nice photo, but one that looks funny on your screen.

Try to rotate the screen, and the photo rotates with it. It’s annoying, but of course, as you may already know, there is an easy way to rotate that photo so it looks good on your screen.

Note: If you use iCloud Photos on your Apple devices, rotating images in the Photos app on one device will sync the changes automatically to all your other devices.

Rotate a single photo on iPhone or iPad

1. Open the Photos app and tap the image you want to rotate.
2. Tap the edit icon, followed by the crop button.
3. Tap the rotate icon once, twice, or three times to achieve the desired orientation, and then tap Done to save the new changes.

The fact that the rotation feature is tucked under the Crop feature doesn’t really make sense, but it gets the job done.

Rotate a picture on your Mac

1. Open the image in Preview or the built-in Photos app.
2. Click the rotate button from the top until you get the desired orientation.
3. Simply close the Preview or Photos app, and your changes will be saved automatically.

Rotate multiple images at once on iPhone or iPad

You can use the Photos app on an iPhone running the latest version of iOS 18 or iOS 26 to batch-rotate multiple photos at once. This works on the same premise as batch editing multiple images at once or cropping many of them together.

1. Open the Photos app and follow the above steps to rotate one picture. After rotating it, don’t tap the Done button. Instead, tap the three dots menu button and select Copy Edit.
2. Turn on the switch for Rotation, followed by Copy > Done.
3. Select multiple images in the Photos app. After that, tap the three dots icon from the top or bottom of the screen and choose Paste Edits. All the selected pictures will rotate the same way as the first image in Step 1.

Note that you can select the pictures and tap the three dots menu button, followed by Revert to Original to remove the rotation and other edits.

Use a shortcut to rotate photos

You can use a simple iOS shortcut we’ve built for you to rotate several images at once on iPhone or iPad. It lets you enter the degree of rotation (90°, 180°, 270°) for the desired effect.

1. Tap this iCloud link on your iPhone or iPad and then tap Add Shortcut to get the Rotate Multiple Images shortcut.
2. Choose Rotate Multiple Images shortcut inside the Shortcuts app. Then, select the images and feed them into the shortcut.
3. Enter the degree of rotation in multiples of 90, that is, 90, 180, or 270, and tap Done.

The shortcut will rotate all the images and save them to the Photos app. You’ll receive a silent notification when the shortcut is done running.

Rotate several pictures at once on Mac

1. Open the Photos app and go to Library or one of the albums. Then, hold the Command key and select all the pictures you want to rotate.
2. Right-click or hold the Control key and click over one of the chosen images.
3. Click Rotate Clockwise. All the selected images will rotate 90 degrees. You can repeat this process one or two more times to achieve the desired level of rotation (180 or 270 degrees).

In case you need to revert, press Command + Z to undo. Or, if you rotate the images the fourth time (90 x 4), it equates to 360 degrees, meaning the photos return to how they were.

Use Finder Quick Actions

You can also follow these steps to rotate several images at once on a Mac running a recent version of macOS:

1. Go to the Finder folder and select the desired images.
2. Control-click or right-click and choose Quick Actions.
3. Select Rotate Left. This will turn all your selected images together. You can repeat the process to achieve the desired level of rotation.

Note: Unlike the Photos app, rotating images using Quick Actions won’t sync to your other Apple devices, as iCloud Photos works only inside the Photos app and the web.

More on rotating things:

• How to easily rotate videos on iPhone or iPad
• How to rotate a video on your Mac
• How to rotate your Mac screen 90 degrees or upside down