"A circular arrow around it in the
status bar at the top the screen..."
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 so that your open apps are displayed then swiping these icons to the right until your iPod contols appear, you should see an icon with a circular arrow. This icon locks your screen rotation. Was this answer helpful?
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anonymous said: He thanks!! it worked.
anonymous said: Thanks! I forgot about that. I've been navigating through the settings trying to figure it out for the last 25 minutes! I should have asked trusty old google then!
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Someone said: Yep indeed! My daughter always plays with my iPhone and suddenly I had this in the statusbar. She ofcourse didn't know how she turned it on, (she's 2 and a half years old), so I was looking through the settings screens but couldn't find it. :-) Thanks!
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Someone said: DID IT THANX ITS BUGGED ME FOR WEEKS , I NERW MY SCREEN WOULDNT ROTATE BUT DIDNT KNOW WHY ,THANX JAN
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Someone said: Thanks! I also know now about the ipod controls...
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Someone said: Thanks like everyone else I was getting worried as to how to remove it and didnt have a clue what it was.
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Thank you again
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Someone said: Thank you its 3am and I have been trying to figure out what i did for 15 minutes and cant just go to sleep because its been bugging the crap out of me
Someone said: Thanks... I was about to reset to factory settings
Someone said: thank you so much. I did this yesterday and didn't understand how I did it.
Someone said: Oh great my little boy did mine also, it has been bugging the hell out of what it was, fixed now thanks
Someone said: It's always the easiest thing with apple...but my old pc brain still wants to dig until i find gold! Thanks a bunch!
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Someone said: that was great, mine started getting into the landscape mode, many thanks
Someone said: Thanks, been annoying me for days, must have been one of the kids lol - hurray for Google!!!!
Someone said: Thanks for the tip, this lock wouldn't allow me to rotate my keyboard when texting. Big help....thank you.
Someone said: thanks. first time i ever saw it. Helped alot
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Someone said: I'm confused. How / where do I double click home to get rid of this icon
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Someone said: I swear my 4 yr old keeps locking it to drive me crazy. This helped SO MUCH!! THANK YOU!!
Someone said: thanks ...i was thinking it was some sort of safe mode or something...
Someone said: Thank u so much I would of had no idea how to do it without this!
Someone said: This icon is explained in the iphone 4 user manual. You go into Safari then to iPhone User guide then tap "iPhone at a Glance" scroll to the bottom you will see "Status icons" and it is referenced in there.
Someone said: Thank you so much, I was going crazy.
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Someone said: Thanks. You would think apple would put this in settings. What a strange place to hide this control. SIon we will be back to dos prompts!
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dgrant34 said: derek g from glasgow..thanks for ure help it worked, was doing my nut in sitting their, now it,s away and iv learnd somthing more about my iphone4. ye,ha :-)cheers
Someone said: Thanks dude! I was very confused for a bit. Nice save!
Someone said: wow how stupid do I feel, I'm an IT engineer as well! I thought it came on because of a fault with the sensor and was ready to take it to the Apple store! Thanks!!
Someone said: i just made an appt to the apple store until i read this. THANKS!
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Someone said: Thank you,it was getting me mad that I didn't know what it was :)
Someone said: My iPhone has that symbol but ITS LOCKED TO THE POINT WHERE IT WONT SLIDE TO OPEN THE PHONE TO ITS HOMEPAGE, SO I CANT FIX IT. but when i double click i can play, or pause music still. PLEASE HELP!
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Someone said: thinx i seen it and didnt no what it was
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