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Latest iPhone OS 4 Beta Gains Orientation Lock and iPod Controls in Multitasking Interface
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A couple? This is quickly getting out of hand.
Another button will also add a little bit of wiggle room for future features as well.
Yeah, at least it isnt an ipod shuffle http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3458
Actually I wouldn't mind a back button or at least a dedicated multitasking hot spot on the touch screen...
Tap the statusbar like SBSettings. Simple and easy and lets you choose from a variety of settings.
You all forgetting that it's a beta. Apple might have dropped those icons in as a placeholders. They just want the code and function to work properly. UI will be fixed the last moment, because they don't want to show too much to developers.
How does it defeat the purpose? Isn't the idea to stop rotation?
I wouldn't be surprised if it was "fixed" in the future, but not until Apple completely redesigns all their apps to fully support landscape, at the earliest.
Yay, orientation lock, albeit about 3 generations of iPhones overdue. Reading in bed shall henceforth be less portrait/landscape/portrait/landscape/WTF/portrait/didureallymeanlandscape?/portrait/FAIL/okIGiveupnightnight/ spastic.
Eek. Fail. Hopefully this is fixed before release!
Eek. Fail. Hopefully this is fixed before release!
oh thank goodness! i get so frustrated when im trying to send a text or mail and it keeps flipping about! i can see why people wanting it but when 3.0 came I didn't like this feature, but now its sorted i'mcan we get back the old text box now? have the text box staying the same size and not getting bigger the more i type? i usually send long texts and too see the text i've been sent i need to select all, cut, read text, paste. pleeease
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To make this easier you can just click on the edit button at the top of the page. It makes it easier for you
I have the same problem. This is only a work around though, this shouldn't be like this!I actually can't think of a single time that I've wanted to lock something in landscape mode. I can think of many occasions where I would have liked a portrait mode lock. I think portrait mode would cover the vast majority of the situations on the iPhone, but obviously locking in landscape should be an option.
Preferable how?
i prefer fewer mechanical inputs, multiple commands on each mechanical input through click-hold combinations.
less things to break, less places for crud to collect.
same goes for the controls on the iphone earbuds, squeeze once, squeeze twice, squeeze trice. much better than the clunky controls that came with headsets a few years ago with three or four buttons
If you're sideways and you want to lock in Landscape, this is what you do.
Turn the phone so it switches to landscape mode... Now flip it TOTALLY UPSIDE DOWN. So the home-button is towards the sky.
Now your screen will be in landscape mode but the phone will be vertical.
Enjoy.
Turn the phone so it switches to landscape mode... Now flip it TOTALLY UPSIDE DOWN. So the home-button is towards the sky.
Now your screen will be in landscape mode but the phone will be vertical.
Enjoy.
So there's no longer a GUI to see Artist / Track info without switching to the iPod app?
IMHO it seems like valuable space in the multitasking pane has now been diverted to (reduced) functionality that was previously available. Could there not have been an additional interface element above the multitasking pane when iTunes is playing?
The orientation lock is great, however.
IMHO it seems like valuable space in the multitasking pane has now been diverted to (reduced) functionality that was previously available. Could there not have been an additional interface element above the multitasking pane when iTunes is playing?
The orientation lock is great, however.
Swiping left on the app switching bar is so stupid!
Just like spotlight, it feels like a patch-job. Instead of changing the UI so it fits in, they just slap it on the app switching bar.
You have a home screen full of app icons, except for the leftmost screen, where it's a completely different interface and function!
Now you also have the app switching bar, full of your most recently used app icons, except to the left, where instead of apps, there are controls for the iPod - even though you might be playing music with a third-party app thanks to our new multitasking.
While they are at it, why don't they just make the app switching bar two icons tall and put the controls on the top row? It might not look very pretty, but what about this UI does anymore?
Just like spotlight, it feels like a patch-job. Instead of changing the UI so it fits in, they just slap it on the app switching bar.
You have a home screen full of app icons, except for the leftmost screen, where it's a completely different interface and function!
Now you also have the app switching bar, full of your most recently used app icons, except to the left, where instead of apps, there are controls for the iPod - even though you might be playing music with a third-party app thanks to our new multitasking.
While they are at it, why don't they just make the app switching bar two icons tall and put the controls on the top row? It might not look very pretty, but what about this UI does anymore?
true that! thanks for half a feature, Apple.
BTW, I get a bit upset when people post comments without reading all the prior comments....so many comments out of context in this thread.(not that swarmster did that, but other random posters cheering on the lock, which is half functional at best.)
right, instead it will be all portrait, all the time...not much of a feature if you ask me.
Haha... yes. Like shortTap-shortTap-longTap-shortTap-longTap to bring up Safari...
(No, that doesn't work)
You need the beta SDK to backup from a 4.0 iPhone. If you don't have it installed, than yes, you will lose all your data.
Yes, it was... And I know why. Without going into great detail, it appears to be related to the Xcode installer. The actual OS still works fine.
Partly true. You need the beta SDK to backup from 4.0 beta 1. After you've erase-installed beta 2 or newer, iTunes will backup properly.
Note: If you reinstall iTunes, it won't backup properly until you reinstall the beta SDK.
