Have you updated your iPad to iOS 9 and noticed it not wanting to rotate? I have and so have a few other people who have messaged me about it. It looks like on some iPads, iOS 9 got a little wonky and doesn’t allow smooth screen rotation into landscape mode.
One Twitter follow said he wiped his iPad Air 2 and restored from iCloud. I responded to him that restoring from iCloud would not fix this issue because an iCloud restore would be dragging whatever bug or clustered files right back to the device.
Once you have noticed your device not wanting to rotate or moving slowly, just open Settings > General then scroll to the bottom to Reset. There is no need to erase all the settings. Just do a reset of all settings. This will clean out any of the corrupt file settings that might be causing the iOS device to not work properly.
You could also try a hard reboot by holding down both the home button and the sleep/wake button until you see the Apple logo on the screen. That did not work for me, but I was told it did for others.
Sometimes in new versions of an OS, file structures can be slightly changed and depending on your device it might get stuck. It’s an easy fix and once it’s done you will get a nice clean experience using the new iOS 9.
None of the above worked and I’m surprised, this normally settles a problem. Been playing with rotation setting for a while still no luck.
I’m sorry to hear that the solution above didn’t work for you. Those are the steps that I used and it worked for me and several others. If you did a clean install without restoring from backup and are still having issues, you might consider contacting Apple as they might have a better option. Let us know what you find out. Good luck!
Tried it but didn’t work for me either! Frustrating overseas and hard to contact Apple!
Just reset all the settings, it will clear any corrupted file settings that does not allow iOS device to work properly. Those are the steps that I used and it worked for me and several others. It’s really a nice and helpful piece of info.
Turn of the device and drop it on carpet surface around 1-2 feet high and it will reset the gyroscope sensor.
It did solve the issue for me.
Hopefully it will help!
Thanks for this tip! The rotation lock on my iPad 2 had gone AWOL, and reset all settings brought it back from wherever it had been hiding.
Sometimes could be hardware issues on its motherboard – problems with IC. We have fixed some iPads and iPhones motherboards with the problem. Apple authorized centres do not do motherboard repairs. If resets do not work, just try to find an independent workshop in your region which really do motherboard repairs. In Auckland New Zealand