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iPad's Orientation Lock Switch Becomes Mute Switch With iOS 4.2
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Different strokes for different folks.
Personally, I hope that Apple sets this up as a system setting so the user can select which one works for them. Win-Win that way.
I confess to being too lazy to read 10 pages of posts. What on earth do people use orientation lock on the IPad for? I get it on the iPhone - if you aren't upright (e.g. if I wake up in the morning, and check the weather - I might want to use portrait mode even though I am lying horizontally on the bed).
But on the iPad - really??
But on the iPad - really??
Might be a good idea if you want to contribute to the discussion.
Just saying.
I take it that you don't have an iPad.
You use it to prevent the UI from rotating on you.
All the time, I'm showing stuff to my wife who's sitting, while I'm standing, or vice-versa, or I have the device lying on a flat surface (which makes it prone to inadvertent UI rotation), or am lying in bed using it, etc, etc. I use the switch constantly. Almost every time I use the device.
You can already silence the device by holding down the volume button. Removing the rotation lock and burying it in the app-switcher UI is a reduction in usability. Not a fan.
To lock the orientation.
Seriously, it's a stupid question.
Furthermore, I read with the iPad in bed more than the iPhone as it's a better reading experience. Turning to my side requires orientation lock etc. I am of the opinion that it is actually more useful on the iPad than the iPhone, as even the lock screen rotates on the iPad.
I hate to say it, I never knew there was a spin lock. As long as you hold the thing the right way, you don't need it.
Completely agree, I seem to be getting abuse for this view. I accept that reading in bed, is 1 time when I can accept it being useful.
Porn?
LOL, I actually have a girlfriend and don't think she'd approve of that first thing in the morning. More a case of reading news articles and emails and so on. Checking twitter without it spinning around.
However, yes, I am sure it would be useful for porn - though I would be more likely to put the iPad somewhere and look at it, rather than change rotation mid-spank.
Screen orientation and position lock gesture(s) could be very different from object rotate gesture without being an inconsistency.
LOL - y'all are funny..
I use the rotation lock every few minutes -- when looking through long sequences of photos in the Camera roll, in Apple's Photos app. The reason is simple: as photos are imported to the iPad from a camera, many of them will not be oriented in the optimum viewing direction.
Even photos that have been previously rotated & organized into albums (within iPhoto, usually) can require that the iPad be oriented in a different direction. No matter what ya do, NOT ALL photos look best in portrait, and not all look best in landscape. So it commonly happens that I want the screen to be locked as I page through a sequence of images -- AND then, later, to be UNlocked, so that the screen can rotate to the other direction.
To be obliged to fiddle onscreen with the user interface to accomplish this obviously interrupts what I am looking at, and so creates a *total* loss of the workflow when looking through long sequences of images.
This same problem was described above, by forum member Night Spring, in great detail -- in relationship to reading and typing on the iPad.
Macwheels
Completely disagree
I am writing on the lounge now as we speak, it keeps rotating as I put it onto my lap!! How annoying
Lock is my savior
Which is why I have a stand for mine
But seriously, I don't use my switch more than a few times a day, yet I don't see a purpose for a mute switch on the iPad - it won't ring so as to offend, interrupt etc.
Unless I leave Skype on, but then it doesn't have vibration built in so I won't even know. I see the current state of affairs (3.2.2) as a good one.
If Apple chooses to change it - leave the user the chance, if not to configure, then to choose a setting!
Annoying change? Yes.
People saying get used to it: you have no idea how useful it was.
People saying that Apple should provide an option: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
I'll just have to get used to it. Sucks? A bit. But the reason why it's going to be come mute is so you can mute any incoming rings to FaceTime on the next device.
People saying get used to it: you have no idea how useful it was.
People saying that Apple should provide an option: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
I'll just have to get used to it. Sucks? A bit. But the reason why it's going to be come mute is so you can mute any incoming rings to FaceTime on the next device.
+1 . The change won't worry me at all. Some on here just sook like they've never faced a real problem in their lives.
Maybe Apple will make it an optional setting.
You can always provide feedback to Apple here --> iPad Feedback