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From my testing today, you can only rotate a photo using the mobile app, and even then you have to save it locally and re-upload the rotated photo. Thus creating a separate, mostly duplicate photo! This is essentially a metadata orientation update, or it could be more. Immich seems to incorrectly orient a lot of photos that other applications have no problem with. The devs are aware of it and have been discussing this since at least 2022, possibly longer. There are also a number of feature/pull requests on the github page covering rotation, photo editing, cropping, etc. Personally, I don’t care about editing/cropping. I consider those edits which should result in a separate asset, possibly linked back to the original.

For me, this is probably the biggest missing feature for Immich. They’ve done some really amazing things in the past couple years, but this seemingly basic feature remains missing.

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Stillwater@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
In my mobile app, I can select a photo > edit > crop, and get rotate options there. Does that do what you’re looking for? I can’t confirm right now since I’m not home and haven’t exposed it beyond my home network yet, and haven’t tried it from the web interface. I agree though, as I continue to use it, rotating will be a common use case and I’d hope it handles it gracefully.

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- ByteJunk@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Can’t rotate or do basic edits in web app, dead to me.
  
  Also can’t really sync and share with rest of household. Auto sync to phones is also a must.
  
  I was seriously unimpressed with its features, and I’m not bothering with it again anytime soon.
  
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  - Stillwater@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Syncing to all of my household’s phones was one of my main requirements. So far its working, maybe its been recently updated.
    
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blackbrook@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’ve never used it, but one should also ask a what kind of 90 degree rotation does it do. Good image editors can do lossless 90 degree JPEG rotation, meaning they don’t compound the JPEG lossiness and potential artifacts every time.

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