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iOS 4 Pictures Emailed Sideways?

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kevin86

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Is anyone else having this problem in iOS 4?

When you email a picture taken with the camera it is sent sideways (rotated 90 degrees). Is there a fix for this?


Thanks.
 
I just took a screenshot of my home screen and emailed it to myself and it came out in portrait form...

I'll try taking a pic with the camera and see what happens..
 
yep, same problem. The weird part of it is, I took a pic emailed it to my gmail account the preview of the picture shows correctly in portrait view but when you click on "view" that's when the picture get's rotated, if you click on "download" and download the picture it shows in portrait mode..:confused:
 
I noticed this happen last night, and I thought I must've been mistaken - I'm glad it's not just me!
 
I noticed the same thing yesterday but thought gmail screwed something up. Did you resize the picture or send the original? Maybe resizing screws with the rotation.
 
Wow I never realized this but it does it to me too.

In fact I sent a picture to my girlfriend and she said that the picture was sideways.

Uh Oh. My first flaw?
 
I e-mailed myself a photo. It was shot in portrait.

Opened it up in my mail on my Macbook, still in portrait.

Uploaded it on my friends Facebook page...

Landscape.

Very odd. I'm sure it's just an overlooked quirk that'll get sorted out soon enough.
 
Watching videos sideways is no fun either. Does the same to vids when emailed. How can little bugs like this not show up during all those beta builds.
 
JustinP81 said:
I'm going to have to try that out. I'll let you know what happens to me when I do that.
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I tried it.

Video was shot in landscape. E-Mailed it to myself (MobileMe). E-Mail shows correct landscape video. Downloaded it to the desktop, opened in Quicktime, and it's still correct.

Everything seems on the up and up with me for video.
 
JustinP81 said:
I tried it.

Video was shot in landscape. E-Mailed it to myself (MobileMe). E-Mail shows correct landscape video. Downloaded it to the desktop, opened in Quicktime, and it's still correct.

Everything seems on the up and up with me for video.
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I just tried it. I took a picture in portrait, emailed it to myself. When viewing the email on the iPhone it looks correct. When viewing the email on my desktop (Gmail) the picture is sideways. Something screwy is going on. I use Google Sync, not sure if that has anything to do with it.
 
I'm going out on a limb here but it's almost not reading the accelerometer correctly? Because if you take the picture in landscape it emails fine. it's portrait pictures that don't work.
 
kevin86 said:
I'm going out on a limb here but it's almost not reading the accelerometer correctly? Because if you take the picture in landscape it emails fine. it's portrait pictures that don't work.
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Portrait pictures and videos play sideways. Taken landscape they play correctly. I have rebooted the phone many times. Plays and shows fine (correctly) on the phone but even the thumbnails when viewing in explorer shows them incorrectly.
 
I just did some tests. Yeah, Landscapes seem fine which is why I never noticed this. I take 99% Landscape photos.

As for Portrait, they come out good in some places and bad in others. After e-mailing:

Portrait Shows Correctly:
Online Web G-Mail's Preview Thumbnails
iPhone's Photo gallery
iPhone's Mail App (using G-Mail)
Mac OS X (Finder, Quick Look)
Mac OS X Preview application
iPhoto

Portrait is Rotated Sideways:
Online Web G-Mail's Full-Size View
Windows Explorer thumbnails
Windows Picture Viewer
Final Cut Pro
Quick Time Player 7 (Mac version)


So this is NOT an issue of the information not being recorded in the photo. Some programs can see it correctly!

But clearly there is some kind of bug. I'm not sure why some things get it and others don't, but it's not the same everywhere.
 
I discovered if you turn the phone sideways with the home button to your right and take a picture...when you email it, it will be correct. As far as I can see, I think that's was Apple's intention.
 
I read an article someone posted here in a different thread and it said that is had to do with the new tags they are using in the photos and those tags not being recognized by the receiving end. can't find the link though. run a search
 
Just tried this on mine and same problem. Or is it a problem? Am I taking the pictures hold the camera wrong???
 
I noticed this yesterday actually. Just emailed from my 3GS running iOS4 to my work computer running outlook '07 and some were sideways but some were normal. Weird little bug.
 
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