How to rotate a photo uploaded to iCloud photo library

Apple offers iCloud storage that allows you to upload your documents, photos and videos so that you can access them from anywhere by logging into your iCloud account. Earlier, you were suggested to make rotational changes in photos before uploading them to iCloud photo library but now, you may randomly upload pictures to photo library and rotate them when you want. Here, we will provide you some easy steps to rotate an image uploaded to iCloud photo library.

How to rotate an image in Photos for Mac?

You may simply rotate a photo in photo library by following the below given steps:

• If you want to rotate a picture by 90 degree, select the image.
• In the top right corner of the screen, click the rotate button which looks like a square with an arrow path on top of it. By default, it rotates counterclockwise but you may reverse it by holding down Option and click it many times as you want.
• If you want to change the different angle to make it square, double-click the photo so it fills the screen.
• In the top right corner, click “Edit” button and then click the “Crop button” at the top.
• Now, you may drag the wheel of angles at the right of the image until you get the exact orientation and then click “Done.”

How to rotate an image in Photos for iPhone or iPad?

If you are using iPhone or iPad and want to rotate a photo in Photos library, you may easily do it by following the below given steps:

• On your iPhone or iPad, select a photo and it fills the screen.
• In the top right corner of the screen, tap “Edit.”
• At the bottom, tap the rotate button, which looks like a cropping square with arrows circling around it at top and bottom.
• At the bottom right of the screen, tap the rotate-counterclockwise icon. In order to rotate 90° left, tap it once; 180°, tap twice; 90° right, tap three times and then tap “Done.”

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