LOL Thanks for the quick & easy answer. I'd forgotten about this little setting. Apple likes to hide some of these settings. Although it is convenient -- IF one remembers where it is. Chalk mine up to a "senior moment". LOL
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Unusual lock symbol on iPhone 4 title bar
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Reposting the actual helpful info to bring it back to the top:
Originally Posted by FeliceMaxine View Post
A padlock with a circular arrow around it in the status bar at the top the screen means that the phone is locked to portrait mode and will not rotate to landscape mode. This can be turned on and off by double clicking home (the button on the bottom of the iphone) so that your open apps are displayed then swiping these icons to the right until your iPod contols appear (it will be all the way to the left in your open apps), you should see an icon with a circular arrow. This icon is a toggle to lock and unlock your screen rotation.
(I too, of high IQ, didn't know what that icon meant. I must have somehow toggled it when I was deleting all my open icons [a good habit to get into, btw]. I went to the internet to find help and was led here, so all the holier-than-thou posters need to put a sock in it. Nobody was born with an iphone in their hand.)
Reposting the actual helpful info to bring it back to the top:
Originally Posted by FeliceMaxine View Post
A padlock with a circular arrow around it in the status bar at the top the screen means that the phone is locked to portrait mode and will not rotate to landscape mode. This can be turned on and off by double clicking home (the button on the bottom of the iphone) so that your open apps are displayed then swiping these icons to the right until your iPod contols appear (it will be all the way to the left in your open apps), you should see an icon with a circular arrow. This icon is a toggle to lock and unlock your screen rotation.
(I too, of high IQ, didn't know what that icon meant. I must have somehow toggled it when I was deleting all my open icons [a good habit to get into, btw]. I went to the internet to find help and was led here, so all the holier-than-thou posters need to put a sock in it. Nobody was born with an iphone in their hand.)
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