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iPad Pro Reverse volume up and down buttons based on orientation missing in settings?
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The option to lock these buttons and stop them flipping places with device reorientation was removed with the last Pro iteration. Unbelievably irritating but that's New Apple in a nutshell. Given up trying to guess why they do half the things they do.
Good grief. How stupid. I’m coming from the 2020 Pro. Well, thanks for your reply.
I had a 2022 12.9" Pro and it was gone by then. Absolutely infuriating when carrying it around in a folio while listening to a podcast then guessing which button did what when it came to rest. Imagine thinking it was a good idea to deliberately go to the trouble of removing a simple option that already catered for this exact thing 🤦♂️
Same here, it’s so confusing coming from previous iPads since the very first one. That’s a decade of muscle memory that needs retraining. Please Apple give me the option back.
Apple gonna Apple. Pondering some of their design choices is like pondering the meaning of life - the answer is unknowable.
They probably determined from telemetry that only 1% of users changed the setting...
yea came form a m1 and I was like why are the buttons reversed , lol that explains it.
I had mine for a year and the volume button lottery was as annoying on day 365 as it was the first. Obviously depending on personal use cases it won't affect everyone, but not sure how removing a useful option could ever be considered good.
I much prefer the “new” method that has been on the other models for a few years now.
There is no new method though? The flip-flopping volume buttons have been around for as long as I can remember, but Apple removed the option to lock them.
No, the dynamic volume buttons were added first to the iPad Air I think in 2019 and then the 10th gen iPad.
I see, well then that's as far back as I can remember. The point is that the option to lock them so that they're not affected by physical device orientation has been deliberately removed. This was a useful toggle for many users but Apple appears to not care about its users. For clarity - those who don't mind the floating buttons still have them. In that regard nothing has changed, so no one benefits from anything by removing what was an option.
Dynamic buttons are more intuitive for most. Apple routinely limits options compared to Microsoft and Google.
I don't doubt it, and that's fine, but intuition has nothing to do with it when you're carrying the device around in a folio then lay it down flat and it hasn't flipped in software the way you may expect. There is literally no way to tell without trying the buttons and hoping. Yes it may not be a common scenario for most, but for those who routinely experience it, removing the lock option is infuriating. I care not about Microsoft or Google. I care about the product I bought that used to work but then got worse 👍
The better solution would have been to move the buttons to the other side (along with the front camera so that it’s still the “top” side, and maybe along with the camera bump). Not only would it be consistent with the iPhone, but no dynamic swapping would be needed (I think they can ignore the case of the iPad being held upside down).