When a picture is turned upside down or turned 90 degrees, it is familiar to every smartphone owner, and it can be due to a failure of the screen orientation sensor, accidental turn of the device at the time of shooting, or features of the camera software. Owners of Xiaomi and Redmi devices often face the need to quickly correct the orientation of the image in order to send it in the correct form or publish it on social networks.
Fortunately, the MIUI operating system that these smartphones run on has built-in editing tools. You don't have to download heavy third-party apps if you just need to change the position of the picture. The standard gallery offers functionality comparable to professional editors, allowing you to perform basic operations in a couple of touches.
In this article, we will take a look at all the available orientation correction options, including the standard tools, cloud services and third-party software, and the automation of the process, and understanding these mechanisms will help you keep your media files in perfect order.
Use of the built-in MIUI Gallery
The fastest and most obvious way to fix a picture is to use the standard Gallery app, which is pre-installed on all the brand devices and optimized to work with their file system. Open the image and pay attention to the bottom dashboard.
Click on the Change button (usually a pencil or a slider). In the menu that opens, select the Crade tool or the Trimming tool. That's where the turn buttons are. By pressing them, you can rotate the image 90 degrees clockwise or against it until you get the desired result.
Once the photo is in the correct orientation, you need to save the changes, the system will suggest saving the file as a copy or overwriting the original, and carefully watch this choice so that you do not lose the source if you still need it in its original form.
- 📸 Open the image in the Gallery app.
- ✂️ Click the edit button in the lower menu.
- 🔄 Use the Turning Tool to Change the Corner.
- 💾 Save the result by selecting the save format.
☑️ Pre-conservation checks
⚠️ Note: When re-saving JPEG-Images can be micro-loss of quality due to transcoding. If the photo is critical, try to edit a copy of it.
Editing via Google Photos
Many users prefer the Google ecosystem, and Xiaomi smartphones often pre-installed the Google Photos app. This service offers powerful tools for working with media files synchronized with the cloud. The interface here is slightly different from the standard MIUI gallery, but the logic of the actions is similar.
Open the picture, click Change. In the bottom panel, find the "Card" section. There are also spin buttons. The advantage of Google Photos is that it has batch processing and smart algorithms that can automatically suggest a horizon correction or alignment.
Another feature is the history of the changes, which means that you can go back to the original version of the photo at any time, even if it was changed a few days ago, which makes the app a great tool for those who like to experiment with the composition.
Google Photos automatically saves the original in the cloud, allowing you to roll back any edits, including a turn, at any time. It is a unique feature that insures against accidental editing errors.
- ☁️ Synchronize with Google Cloud Storage.
- 🔙 The possibility of changing at any time.
- 🤖 Automatic improvement and alignment of images.
- 📂 Convenient sorting by dates and people.
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Use the “Improving” feature in Google Photos before turning – AI algorithms often self-correct a blocked horizon, making manual rotation unnecessary.
Turning multiple photos at the same time
If you find a whole series of photos flipped (for example, after shooting in a certain mode), it is long and tedious to process them one at a time. In such cases, batch editing functions come to the rescue. Depending on the version of MIUI and the gallery installed, the algorithm may differ slightly.
In the standard gallery, go to album selection mode or just hold your finger on one of the photos to activate the highlight mode. Mark any images that need correction. Then click Change. If the batch rotation feature is available in your firmware version, it will apply to all selected files.
However, it is worth noting that not all versions of the shell support a mass-turn directly through the gallery.In some cases, the system will suggest creating a "Collage" or require the use of third-party batch processing tools.
| Method | Speed of operation | Quality of conservation | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard gallery | Tall. | Original | Low. |
| Google Photo | Medium | Compressed (online) | Low. |
| Third-party annexes | High (packet) | Depends on the app. | Medium |
Third-party applications for batch processing
When built-in tools are scarce, specialized apps from the Google Play store come to the rescue. There are many free utilities that are sharpened to quickly change the orientation of a large number of files, they often weigh less than a megabyte and work faster than heavy graphics editors.
Popular solutions like Rotate & Flip or Image Rotator allow you to select entire folders and apply the action “Turn 90 degrees” or “Reflect vertically” to them, especially for users who often scan documents or take screenshots that are sometimes not saved correctly.
When choosing an app, look for permissions. To work with photos, the program needs access to storage. Try to choose high-rated software and a lot of downloads to protect your personal data.
- 🚀 High speed of processing large amounts of data.
- ⚙️ Flexible settings (clock rotation, against, reflection).
- 📁 Working with entire directories at once.
- 🆓 Most of the functions are usually free.
⚠️ Note: Some free apps may contain intrusive ads. Before mass processing important photos, test the program on one unnecessary file.
How to choose a secure application?
Problems with autoturning the screen
Often users confuse the rotation of the image in the file and the rotation of the picture on the screen. If the photo is lying right, but the phone screen is displayed sideways, the problem lies in blocking the orientation of the screen, for which the accelerometer and the gyroscope inside the smartphone are responsible.
Check the notification curtain (top-down swipe) and there should be a "Swipe" or "Orientation" button, and if it's turned off, the screen will be locked in portrait mode, no matter how you hold the phone, and turn on this feature, and the image should fall into place.
Sometimes the sensor can be bugged after a crash or upgrade, and then calibration helps, so you can download a special app to calibrate the sensors, or you can type the engineering code into the dialer, if your Xiaomi model supports it.
The accelerometer is a sensitive element, and sometimes it just needs to restart the device to work properly, and it resets the temporary errors in the driver.
- 📱 Check the status of the autoturn button in the curtain.
- 🔄 Reboot your smartphone to reset sensors.
- 🛠 Use the Engineering Menu to Test Sensors.
- 🧹 Clear the Gallery app cache.
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If the image is turned only when viewed, but looks normal after sending to the messenger – the problem is blocking the orientation of the screen, not the file.