Twitter Picture Rotation

[DCM_UK]

I use a MacBook Air for my new Twitter account and have noticed that when I try and tweet a jpeg photo taken with my iPhone 8 it gets rotated 90 degrees, there doesn't seem a way of fixing this. Does anyone know the solution? There are articles on the web proposing fixes but they don't make a lot of sense. Other people seem to manage but the fact that it comes up as a problem when searched for shows there is something behind it.

 

[chscag]

Are you tweeting the photo direct from your iPhone 8 to your Twitter account or are you importing it first to your MBA and then to your Twitter account?

 

[DCM_UK]

Some pictures are imported from my phone using iTunes and some are direct from the MBA. Cropping the picture sometimes solves the issue but the size of the jpegs I have tried are well within Twitter limits.

 

[chscag]

When importing from your iPhone 8, try using your "Image Capture.app" instead of iTunes. I find it more versatile to use than iTunes and it generally keeps the image intact in its original form. As for the image being rotated when sent to Twitter, that may be a Twitter problem. It's easy enough to rotate an image using the Preview.app so perhaps you can experiment with that to try to offset what Twitter is doing. Sorry I can't be of more help than that.

 

[Raz0rEdge]

When you stay within the Apple world (iPhone, iPod to Macs) everything will look right because they all share the same knowledge about how the photo was taken. If you take it in portrait mode or landscape mode and if you have the phone this way or that way. Turns out that the EXIF data of the file stores this information and is properly read by iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS but ignored by everyone else.

So if you go directly from iPhone to the web, it's a total guess if you'll get the right orientation or not. Most of time, you will be off by 90deg.

You might want to employ something like Imagemagick to orient the pictures the right way and convert it to a format you like and then upload it to the interwebs.