Lock the Screen Orientation on the iPad
Apr 4, 2010 - 7 Comments
You can lock the screen orientation on the iPad from rotating when the device is shifted by hitting the Screen Rotation Lock button on the side of the device, located above the volume controls.
This is a handy iPad feature and I wish something similar was available on the iPod Touch and iPhone, anytime I use the thing lying down it’s rotating all over the place making it practically inusable. Thankfully the iPad gets it right!
[ via Apple ]
The same facility is available to you in Iphone as well as the Itouch. Just tilt the screen and you will find a lock pictogram appearing in the bottom right side of the screen. Press it and your screen will lock.
Not on my iPhone 4. I tried it and lock pictograms appears!!!
Also the camera thing to appear when you push twice on the home button does work on the phone ,but not on the iPad. When I push twice on the home button, I get the music pictograms from my iPod music!!
Don’t see it
[...] iPad orientation lock used to be controlled by a switch on the side of the device, since iOS 4.2 the orientation lock [...]
When ever I switch the orientation lock button down it will mute and when I switch up it will unmute. No, I am not talking about the the volume control right under the orientation lock button. Please help!
when i switch the orientation lock button it will only mute and unmute! please help!!!
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