How to make your screen turn sideways

Windows 10 has a built-in feature that lets you flip or rotate your monitor screen just like you can do on your smartphone.

In this article, I will show you how to flip or rotate the monitor of your Windows 10 machine in several orientations such as reverse-landscape, portrait, and reverse-portrait.

Why Would you Want to Flip Your Monitor Screen?

Well, you might have mistakenly pressed some button combination on your keyboard and your computer screen now appears flipped.

Or, if you deal with lots of infographics, or you are a designer, there might be times when you want to view a design or other project in portrait and reverse-landscape modes. And to do that, you'd need to flip your computer screen.

How to Flip Your Monitor Orientation in Windows 10

Step 1: Right-click in a blank space on the Windows Desktop and select Display Settings:

Step 2: Click the Display orientation dropdown:

Step 3: Select the orientation you want. The available ones are landscape (the default), reverse-landscape, portrait, and reverse-portrait

Step 4: To keep the changes you made, click the “Keep Changes” button. To revert to the previous orientation, click “Revert”.

If you don’t click either of the two options, the orientation will be reverted to the previous one in 15 seconds.

A screen flipped in reverse landscape looks like the one below:

Portrait looks like this:

And reverse-portrait looks like this:

Keyboard shortcuts to flip your screen in Windows

You can also use some keyboard shortcuts to rotate your monitor screen:

• CTRL + ALT + Up Arrow for landscape
• CTRL + ALT + Right Arrow for portrait
• CTRL + ALT + Down Arrow for reverse-landscape
• CTRL + ALT + ALT1 for reverse-portrait

Keep in mind that these keyboard shortcuts have been disabled in the latest version of Windows 10. But they should still work on previous Windows versions.

Conclusion

In this article, you learned how to flip your Windows 10 monitor. This will help you if you accidentally flipped your screen orientation by mistake, and will let you change the orientation whenever you want to do it.

Thank you for reading, and have a great time.

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While most of the time, it makes sense to keep your iPhone's screen formatted vertically, there are occasions in which rotating to landscape formatting is necessary. 

Whether you're catching up on Netflix, viewing hi-res images, or playing a game, it's not always ideal to use the standard iPhone screen formatting.

Thankfully, rotating your screen is a quick process that should only take a few seconds. Here's everything you need to know.

How to rotate your iPhone screen

Open an app that supports the landscape view, such as YouTube or Netflix. Instead of holding your phone in the normal portrait orientation, rotate it on its side. The content on your screen should now rotate into landscape mode.

If your screen does not rotate, it might be because you have an orientation lock. Here's how to lock or unlock this feature: 

1. To disable Screen Rotation Lock, unlock your iPhone so that you're on the home screen and swipe down from the top right of your screen to reveal the Control Center.

2. Locate the icon featuring a small lock with an arrow curving around it. If Screen Rotation Lock is active, this will appear highlighted. Tap it to unhighlight it, which will disable Screen Rotation Lock and allow your screen to rotate freely.

3. When finished, tap on any unused (free of buttons) space on the screen to return to your home screen. Now, when physically rotating your phone to landscape mode, your screen should follow suit.

Quick tip: You can lock your iPhone's screen in a particular rotation to ensure it doesn't change even if you move the phone in your hand. Rotate the device into the orientation you want and then turn on the orientation lock by tapping on the Screen Rotation Lock icon in Control Center.

What you should do if your iPhone screen won't rotate

It should be noted that while iOS and certain apps like Netflix and YouTube support screen rotation, not all applications will. 

If you've ensured that Screen Rotation Lock is disabled on your phone, chances are the app in question may not allow reorientation of your screen.

What you should do if your iPhone screen won't rotate

It should be noted that while iOS and certain apps like Netflix and YouTube support screen rotation, not all applications will. 

If you've ensured that Screen Rotation Lock is disabled on your phone, chances are the app in question may not allow reorientation of your screen.

If you're certain that an app supports screen rotation but it's not working on your iPhone, you have a couple of options to try and fix the issue.

1. Close and reopen the app. Sometimes apps experience glitches and need to be restarted.

2. Restart your device. Sometimes technology can be finicky and a simple restart gives your phone a chance to get things right. There's no rhyme or reason to why this works, but it often does.

3. Contact Apple Support. If you've restarted your device and disabled Screen Rotation Lock but your screen still won't rotate, it may be time to contact Apple Support to fix the problem. Your phone may have a broken accelerometer or another issue that you'd need a professional to fix. Taking your phone to your local Apple store or authorized Apple repair store is the first step to getting the issue fixed.