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Does a photo look fine in your gallery but show up sideways on a website or in an email? Rotate it left, right or 180° here and save it so it shows the right way up everywhere.

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Sideways photos are a classic problem: a scanned document upside down, half of your trip photos lying on their side, or an image that turns by itself after you upload it. Here you rotate one photo or a whole batch, and each photo is saved already turned. It works on a computer and on a phone, with no app. Below you will find why photos turn sideways online and how to rotate them on your phone.

How to rotate an image online

  1. 1

    Choose photos

    Drag photos onto the page or pick them with the button, on a phone straight from your gallery. The tool accepts JPG, PNG, WebP and HEIC from an iPhone.

  2. 2

    Rotate the photos

    Each photo has buttons to rotate left 90°, right 90° and 180°. The same buttons in the All photos row turn the whole batch at once.

  3. 3

    Check the preview

    The thumbnail turns as soon as you click. Two clicks to the right equal one 180° turn. Below the list you see how many photos will change.

  4. 4

    Download the result

    Click Save rotated photos. One photo downloads on its own, several come in one ZIP file. holiday.jpg becomes holiday-rotated.jpg.

Quick fix for a sideways photo

If a photo looks right in your gallery but sideways on a website or in an email, choose it here, do not rotate anything and save it. It is saved upright, the way your gallery shows it, and shows the right way up everywhere.

Why a photo turns sideways after uploading

Phones often do not turn the image itself. They save a note in the file that tells apps how to display it. Your gallery reads that note, but some websites, email programs and older apps ignore it, and the photo appears sideways or upside down.

Etsy, for example, says it auto-rotates listing photos based on information your camera puts in the file, and suggests rotating them in an editor if they still upload sideways. Saving the photo here writes the rotation into the image itself, so every site shows it the right way.

How to rotate a photo on iPhone, Android and Windows

On iPhone, open the photo in Photos, tap Edit, then Crop, and tap the rotate button. Each tap turns the photo 90°. Tap Done to keep the change.

In Google Photos on Android, tap Edit, then Crop, and tap Rotate. On Windows, open the photo in the Photos app, click Edit image (Ctrl + E) and rotate it in the crop view.

Use this page when you need to rotate many photos at once, when you are on someone else's computer, or when photos must stay rotated for good on a website.

Can I rotate by any angle or straighten a photo?

This tool turns photos in steps of 90° and 180° only. To straighten a crooked horizon by a few degrees, use the straighten control in your phone's editor: on iPhone it is in the crop view, and in Google Photos you tap Edit, then Crop, then Straighten.

If a photo is lying on its side or upside down, a 90° or 180° turn here is all it needs, and you can fix a whole folder of them in one go.

Privacy

Images are processed in your browser and never uploaded to a server. Some tools remember your settings on this device, and the files you download stay on it.

FAQ

Why does my photo show sideways after uploading?
Your phone saved the rotation only as a note in the file, and the website does not read it, so it shows the photo the way the camera sensor captured it. Save the photo here before uploading and the rotation is written into the image itself.

How do I rotate many photos at once?
Use the buttons in the All photos row to turn the whole batch, or the buttons next to a photo to turn just that one. You can combine them, for example turn everything right and turn one photo back. Several photos download as one ZIP file.

Does rotating a JPG lose quality?
Not visibly. Rotated JPG and WebP files are saved again at high quality, and PNG is saved without loss. Photos you did not rotate come back at their original quality, unless they had a rotation tag from a phone and had to be saved upright.

How do I rotate an image 90 degrees clockwise?
Click Rotate right 90° next to the photo. Right means clockwise, left means counterclockwise. Two clicks on the same button turn the photo 180°, and the preview changes right away.

How do I rotate a scanned document?
If the scan is a JPG or PNG, rotate it here like any photo. If it is a PDF, use Rotate PDF, which turns the pages you pick and keeps the document as a PDF. Convert a multi-page TIFF scan to JPG first with Image converter.

What format is the rotated photo saved in?
The same as the original: JPG stays JPG, PNG stays PNG and WebP stays WebP. HEIC photos from an iPhone are saved as JPG, so they open on Windows too. The file name gets -rotated added to it.

Can I rotate a video here?
No. This tool rotates only JPG, PNG, WebP and HEIC photos, it cannot open video files. To rotate a video, use a video editing app on your phone or computer.

Is it free, and are my photos uploaded?
It is free, with no sign-up and no watermark. Photos are not uploaded anywhere, they are rotated in your browser tab. GPS location and other metadata are removed from the saved photos.

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