Howard5252 Loc: New York / Florida (now)

Interesting question; I don't know, I've only shot landscape mode.

twowindsbear

OK - when you hold your phone, taking a pic in landscape mode - is The Button on the right? If not, that's your problem - holding the phone so that The Button is to the left is upside down.

Indi Loc: L. I., NY, Palm Beach Cty when it's cold.

Turn the phone 180° from the way you normally shot.

bcrawf

We'd need more information. For example, are you in the northern or southern hemisphere? And to what location(s) did you send the image(s)?

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

Obviously the makers of the Macintosh computer are having themselves a nice laugh at the expense of PC owners. It's funny because sometimes friends will send me a contact from their iPhone and it can't be read by a PC or Android. But people with iPhones keep doing this. Another joke by the Apple makers.

hcmcdole

With smart phones/devices there is some kind of orientation sensor that tells the device what orientation the photo was shot in and is marked in the EXIF data so newer software will read that orientation "flag" and rotate the photo to how it was taken. When you rotate your phone (at least the older models) sometimes the screen didn't rotate so you had to do the iPhone figure 8 maneuver to get the sensor to work again (what a pain).

The older software on most sites (and most email) will have to be updated to take into account this newest setting. So that leaves you to fix the picture for most everybody or let everyone else left to complain about your sideways or upside down photos. So if someone sends me a photo from an iPhone shot sideways or upside down in email, it will appear that way in my email app (Outlook) but if I open it in Photos (Win 10's default photo viewer) it usually orients it correctly because the software must be looking at the orientation "flag".

There are many complaints on the web about this and here is the first one that popped up:

http://rotatemailer.com/sideways-pictures.html

drivered Loc: Capital District, NY

Just stand on your head while looking at the screen

blackest Loc: Ireland

Well the fine article said

"Your iPhone doesn’t convert any images to the correct orientation because that would keep it busy for a few seconds. Instead it simply saves all photos as they were recorded and adds information about their correct orientation to EXIF tags.

This means that your iPhone is ready to shoot another photo within a fraction of a second, which is just awesome. The only problem is that some software developers, including Microsoft, ignore the information that’s stored in EXIF tags."

So the camera stores the rotation information and Microsoft ignores it. There is a program mentioned for the iphone which rotates the image file that can be used instead of the built in camera software. The cost is slower shooting

It's not really a mac problem, when Microsoft ignores the orientation information is it.

hcmcdole

MS doesn't necessarily ignore it. They just haven't written new code to encompass all things new and shiny. Outlook for instance does not reorient photos - that is up to the sender or the end user. BUT Photos (their new photo viewer) DOES indeed reorient the photos.

bdk Loc: Sanibel Fl.

or turn the phone on its side, when u take a pic, the way its suppose to be....see what happens then.

mas24 Loc: Southern CA

I get these upside down photos from iPhone owners. However, I simply rotate them and send them to my gallery. Straight up.

blackest Loc: Ireland

Thats kind of the problem, you use the volume control button on the side of the phone as the shutter button if it is on top where most people would orientate it then it's upside down for the sensor... Not that it really matters so much for photo's but with video that is a bigger issue.

Bobcat87

I appreciate the responses. I will try rotating the phone 180 degrees, as well as going the "edit" route. I am trying to recall if all the problem photos were taken in landscape. I do know that when I take portrait view photos, the phone is in proper position. In landscape, maybe not. Will have to do some test photos. Re: saving changed images before sending, yes, I do save the changes. Thanks, all.