An image pickup control apparatus for controlling image pickup means, the apparatus comprising: holding means for holding a coordinate system that is used for representing an image capturing direction of the image pickup means, the coordinate system being used to change the image capturing direction; reception means for receiving a first command for rotating a captured image obtained by the image pickup means by a certain angle, a point of intersection of diagonals of the captured image being the center of the rotation for the captured image, a second command for changing the coordinate system held in the holding means from a first coordinate system to a second coordinate system which has been rotated by the certain angle with respect to the first coordinate system, the origin of the first coordinate system being the center of the rotation for the first captured image, and specification information for specifying the image capturing direction in the coordinate system held in the holding system; change control means for executing, using the coordinate system held in the holding means, control to change the image capturing direction of the image pickup means to the image capturing direction specified by the specification information; and control means for, if the reception means receives one of the first command and the second command, executing control to automatically execute both of a first process corresponding to the first command and a second process corresponding to the second command in accordance with the one of the first command and the second command, even if the reception means does not receive the other of the first command and the second command, wherein the first process is a process rotating the captured image by the certain angle in accordance with the one of the first command and the second command, and the second process is a process changing the coordinate system held in the holding means from the first coordinate system to the second coordinate system which has been rotated by the certain angle in accordance with the one of the first command and the second command, wherein, when the reception means does not receive the other of the first command and the second command even when a certain time period has elapsed since reception of one of the first command and the second command, the control means executes control to restore the image pickup control apparatus to a state prior to execution of the first process and the second process. holding means for holding a coordinate system that is used for representing an image capturing direction of the image pickup means, the coordinate system being used to change the image capturing direction; reception means for receiving a first command for rotating a captured image obtained by the image pickup means by a certain angle, a point of intersection of diagonals of the captured image being the center of the rotation for the captured image, a second command for changing the coordinate system held in the holding means from a first coordinate system to a second coordinate system which has been rotated by the certain angle with respect to the first coordinate system, the origin of the first coordinate system being the center of the rotation for the first captured image, and specification information for specifying the image capturing direction in the coordinate system held in the holding system; change control means for executing, using the coordinate system held in the holding means, control to change the image capturing direction of the image pickup means to the image capturing direction specified by the specification information; and control means for, if the reception means receives one of the first command and the second command, executing control to automatically execute both of a first process corresponding to the first command and a second process corresponding to the second command in accordance with the one of the first command and the second command, even if the reception means does not receive the other of the first command and the second command, wherein the first process is a process rotating the captured image by the certain angle in accordance with the one of the first command and the second command, and the second process is a process changing the coordinate system held in the holding means from the first coordinate system to the second coordinate system which has been rotated by the certain angle in accordance with the one of the first command and the second command,