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iOS 4.2: What Do YOU Prefer the Hardware Switch to be, Rotation Lock or Mute?
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Rotation Lock defiantly, i could already mute it with he volume switch, should at the very least be an option in the settings.
In all honesty when I heard they were switching it, even though I didn't have my iPad yet then, it made me mad but after having my iPad for 2 months I can say that I have only used the orenintation lock twice and both times the hard and soft one work just as good as the other. IMO : D
I would prefer it was a mute switch, but that is only because I hate the hold-down-to-mute volume rocker. I rarely want to mute my iPad. Usually I just want to decrease the volume and instinctively hold down the rocker to reduce the volume quickly. Of course this mutes the iPad, which means I then have to grumble while re-increasing the volume to where I wanted it.
Since Apple insists on have both the rocker and the switch continue to mute the device - then it might as well be a rotation lock.
Since Apple insists on have both the rocker and the switch continue to mute the device - then it might as well be a rotation lock.
I would have prefer if it was used as either:
- Turn Notifications ON/OFF
- Airplane Mode ON/OFF
- Turn Notifications ON/OFF
- Airplane Mode ON/OFF
ROTATION LOCK PLEASE
This is so annoying. I love the aspect ratio auto-rotation, but there are certainly times where I need to lock it. Click-click-swipe-swipe is too cumbersome.
As others have said, if it's software switchable (as Apple clearly showed) then it should be user-settable.
This is so annoying. I love the aspect ratio auto-rotation, but there are certainly times where I need to lock it. Click-click-swipe-swipe is too cumbersome.
As others have said, if it's software switchable (as Apple clearly showed) then it should be user-settable.
I hadn't seen this poll for a while. Wow. Those are pretty clear figures, though there should have been an option for 'user selectable', I guess.
When engaging in discussions with people in threads about this change, it feels more 50-50, and those who like having a hardware mute switch will tell you in no uncertain terms that, like, everybody needs that function, dur.
The counter-point might be, try this poll again in 6 months' time once everyone's got used to it and you have a bunch of new users who have never known any different. But the poll should be worded: do you ever use the mute switch?
My hypothesis: iPad 2 will have no switch.
When engaging in discussions with people in threads about this change, it feels more 50-50, and those who like having a hardware mute switch will tell you in no uncertain terms that, like, everybody needs that function, dur.
The counter-point might be, try this poll again in 6 months' time once everyone's got used to it and you have a bunch of new users who have never known any different. But the poll should be worded: do you ever use the mute switch?
My hypothesis: iPad 2 will have no switch.
Since the update, I never touch the mute toggle or lock the screen. I've adapted to the situation because offer won't offer us the choice. Whereas before I mostly used the iPad in landscape, now I don't.
Wow! 80% want the Rotation Lock back.
Send feedback to Apple guys, we just might get lucky.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html
Send feedback to Apple guys, we just might get lucky.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html
orientation lock! ugh i HATE the mute switch. almost crashed my car the other day trying to lock the damn screen so it wouldn't rotate around all over while trying to use GPS..... so god damn annoying I almost threw the iPad out the car window...
In the iPad it makes more sense to have it as a rotation lock since I don't think the majority of users use it as an iPod music player.
I don't see the point of the mute button. I was watching a movie and switched it on and movie sound still kept going? If it's just for notifications, it's definitely stupid in my opinion.
I hope they bring back orientation lock hardware switch please!
I hope they bring back orientation lock hardware switch please!
Rotation lock for sure, holding the volume down to mute worked perfectly fine. Why must Apple complicate things... It worked so beautifully before..
Holding volume down still works.
The 'mute' button is labelled as 'Silent' in the latest manual for 4.2, I see.
Here's the wording for what it's supposed to do:
It doesn't do that. It only mutes notification sounds and the sounds from certain, unpredictable, apps.
This is why it should be switched back, and/or be user-settable. It confuses me every time I return to this, how unintuitive and un-Apple it is. There must be external reasons behind all this.
Well, since it has changed there's nothing we can do about it at the moment. Unless Steve jobs sees sense and changes it back. Either that or it could be changed to a favourites switch to open and close your favourite application. But I think a screen rotation lock is still the best way to go.
As long as the holding down of the volume does that, I'm good with the switch being rotation lock. But I also like having rotation lock now on my iPhone. Sometimes I'll read at an angle and go nuts trying to keep it at the right angle.
I want what it was originally used for! I don't like hardware that suddenly changes because the creator wants it to be similar to their phones..