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FACETIME GOT YOU UPSIDE DOWN? TURN THAT FROWN AROUND

The orientation lock is an easily overlooked option in iOS/iPadOS Control Centre that lets you prevent apps from rotating their view when your device detects it’s turned a corner. This can be useful when viewing a video, reading a book, or engaging in other activities that you don’t want to have the app reformat from portrait to landscape or landscape to portrait.

FaceTime honours the orientation lock in a way that might confuse other people: they always see your locked orientation. If you don’t remember that you have orientation lock enabled, other participants in a call may think it’s their fault that

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