Screen Mirror and Control now has a toolbar button called Rotate Camera. It is made for a common problem with the iPhone Camera app.
When you rotate the iPhone sideways, the Camera app looks like it is in landscape. But the app itself is still a portrait app. Apple changes the camera controls and preview inside the app, but the phone screen is not truly switched into landscape mode.
That can create a problem when the iPhone screen is mirrored to the Mac. You may rotate the iPhone sideways expecting a wide camera view, but the mirrored screen may still behave like a portrait screen.
Rotate Camera fixes this for Screen Mirror users. When you rotate the iPhone Camera app sideways, Screen Mirror can show the camera view in the correct landscape orientation on the Mac.
Why This Matters
Most people do not want to show a tall camera view during a video call, webinar, class, or recording. They want a wide view that fits the Mac screen.
That is especially true when showing something physical. A desk, product, notebook, repair, whiteboard, drawing, musical instrument, classroom activity, or hardware project usually looks better in landscape.
With Rotate Camera, the iPhone can work more like a simple document camera or demo camera while still being mirrored through Screen Mirror.
Useful for Calls, Webinars, and Demos
This feature is helpful when you want to show what you are doing live.
You can join a Zoom call, Teams meeting, Google Meet session, webinar, or livestream from your Mac. Then you can share the Screen Mirror window and point your iPhone camera at the thing you want people to see.
For example, you can show your hands working on a product, a worksheet on a desk, a device you are setting up, or a prototype you are testing. Since the camera view appears in landscape, it fits better inside the shared Mac screen.
This makes explanations easier. Instead of describing what you are doing, you can show it.
Different from Apple’s iPhone Mirroring
Apple’s iPhone Mirroring app is useful for viewing and controlling an iPhone from a Mac. But it does not allow viewing the iPhone camera screen while mirroring. Screen Mirror does.
That is an important difference for presentations and remote work. If you need to show the Camera app during a call, tutorial, recording, or webinar, Apple’s built-in mirroring is not enough. Screen Mirror lets the camera screen appear on the Mac, and Rotate Camera makes the sideways camera view easier to use.
More Flexible Than a Webcam App
Webcam apps are good when you only need the iPhone camera feed. Apple Continuity Camera, Camo, Detail, EpocCam-style apps, and similar tools are built mainly around using the iPhone as a camera source.
Screen Mirror is different because it mirrors the iPhone or iPad screen. The Camera app can be part of the workflow, but it is not the whole workflow.
You can show the iPhone Camera app in landscape, then switch to Photos, Notes, Safari, Settings, a business app, a game, or your own app. The audience sees the real device screen on the Mac.
That makes Screen Mirror useful for app demos, teaching, support, product walkthroughs, and recordings where the full iPhone or iPad experience matters.
How to Use Rotate Camera
Connect your iPhone to your Mac with USB. Open Screen Mirror and start mirroring the device. Open the Camera app on the iPhone. Rotate the iPhone sideways. Then click Rotate Camera in the Screen Mirror toolbar.
The mirrored camera view will be shown in landscape on your Mac.
This gives you the wide iPhone camera view you expected when you turned the phone sideways, while keeping the workflow inside Screen Mirror.
A Better Way to Present the iPhone Camera
Rotate Camera is a small feature, but it solves a real problem. The iPhone Camera app may look like it rotates, but it does not behave like a true landscape app. Screen Mirror bridges that gap when you want to show the iPhone camera on your Mac.
Use it when you need to teach, present, demo, record, or explain something visually. Rotate the iPhone camera sideways, click Rotate Camera, and share the Screen Mirror window from your Mac.