Wow. If they put an orientation lock in there I may have to buy 2 iPhones for myself just to thank them!
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Latest iPhone OS 4 Beta Gains Orientation Lock and iPod Controls in Multitasking Interface
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Eh? The multitasking thing is NOT the same as the dock. The whole point is that it can be accessed from any app, not just the home screen. It's easier to swipe left than to go back to the home screen. And anyway, this is more about the playback controls.
Anyway, this is a clever addition from
because the double-homebutton-click for the multitasking replaced the double-click for iPod controls. And the orientation lock on iPhone is COOL!
What would happen if you locked in landscape and then returned to the homescreen? Or any of the many apps (built-in and 3rd party) that don't support landscape? Apple has never stressed landscape support for the iPhone like they have with the iPad, so it would be awkward to allow the user to lock the device in an under-supported mode.
i suppose the homescreen stays untouched, other than that, the screen will just NOT change orientation in any apps that have landscape and portrait modes
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
A much quicker way to do what you're doing is to press Edit in the top right - your text box disappears so you can read all your texts above
why not? ... if you double-home in landscape and hit the "lock" key, why wouldn't it just turn off screen rotation?
Tap-tap-hold only still brings up iPod controlls if you did an update. If you did a restore or clean install, you no longer get that option, tap-tap-hold goes to phone favorites with no way of customizing.
Please explain what the problem is? what is wrong with the home button having multiple functions, depending on how often you press it, etc.
i find it a very good way of accessing various functions of the phone
That is somewhat important information that you should have included in your original post. Without that knowledge, it simply appears that you are jumping to conclusions, which far too many people do.
Edit: As an aside, did you test it from an app while in landscape mode or from the home screen that is always in portrait mode even if you hold it in a landscape orientation?
God forbid we, you know, add another freaking button!
The original iPhone design wasn't intended to do all these different functions.
That's my point.
I was asking "what would happen?" in more of a 'good UI' sense. When there's no good, consistent, user-friendly answer, Apple usually just drops the feature. As much as everyone rags on them for it, that's a big part of why they're so good.
DUDE, I'M USING IT.
If you double-home in landscape, the multitasking panel slides up from right above the home button... in a portrait orientation.
When you click the lock button, it rotates the phone to Portrait and then locks it.
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I could have sworn I read on here a while back that the tap-tap feature was still in OS 4, but that it used a slightly different button combination to bring it up. Someone with 4.0, please, back me up!
that is very ... weird,
thanks for the screenshots though (thank god they fixed that bug, right!)
i call "temporary" on it only being portrait
By the way, it looks like the battery percentage is gone on my 3GS. I thought maybe it got "turned off", but I can't even find the option to turn it back on.
In other news, they fixed GPS in beta 3. Navigon couldn't get a good GPS signal in betas 1 and 2.
In other news, they fixed GPS in beta 3. Navigon couldn't get a good GPS signal in betas 1 and 2.
Tap-Tap is now reserved for bringing up the multitasking pane. It no longer brings up favorites or iPod controls. I have yet to find a workaround to bring up favorites quickly.
i believe one button with multiple functions is preferable to adding buttons.
surely nobody has any difficulty remembering a couple of click-hold combination for one button?
Orientation lock feature is already available on jailbroken devices with SBsettings. It is always interesting to see how excited users get for features that are already "unofficially" available.
If I were to recommend the single most important reason to jailbreak, it is SBsettings, as from anywhere, one is a click away from enabling/disabling ringer, wifi, orientation lock, push mail, push services, gps, bluetooth, and whatever other add on toggles one would like to download from cydia
If I were to recommend the single most important reason to jailbreak, it is SBsettings, as from anywhere, one is a click away from enabling/disabling ringer, wifi, orientation lock, push mail, push services, gps, bluetooth, and whatever other add on toggles one would like to download from cydia