File preparation assistant

Photo orientation fixer

Some portals ignore the rotation flag that phones store, so an upright photo appears sideways after upload. This tool bakes the correct rotation into the pixels themselves.

What gets removed

The photo is re-encoded without EXIF data, so GPS location, camera model and capture details do not travel with the file. Sideways phone photos are rotated upright first, so portals that ignore orientation metadata display them correctly.

Processed temporarily

How it works

01

Upload the sideways photo

Use the original from your phone — not a screenshot, which loses quality.

02

Process it

The stored orientation flag is applied to the actual pixels and the flag is then removed, along with other EXIF metadata.

03

Upload the fixed file

Every website and viewer now shows the same upright image, because the rotation is real rather than a metadata hint.

Common questions

Why do phone photos turn sideways on some websites?

Phones often save the sensor image unrotated plus a flag saying how to display it. Sites that ignore the flag show the raw sideways pixels.

My photo is still wrong after fixing — why?

If the photo was already saved without a flag (for example after editing), there is nothing to apply automatically. Use the resize tool's crop preview or rotate it in your gallery first.

Is the quality affected?

One high-quality re-encode is performed. Rotation itself is lossless for right-angle turns.