If you've yet to upgrade your iPad to iOS 4.2.1, and you're head-over-heels with your orientation lock, you've got two options: upgrade and lose that functionality altogether, or upgrade / jailbreak ...

While the iPad's ability to stay fixed in portrait or landscape mode is useful for some scenarios, such as full-screen presentations or reading e-books, allowing the display to rotate based on how ...

When rotating your iPad, such as from portrait view to landscape, the image on the screen rotates in order to remain right side up. This feature comes in handy when you must often change the display's ...

Apple has added a few helpful new Shortcut actions to iOS 14.5. We’ve previously talked about one, which lets you drop a new “Take Screenshots” action into any of your programmed Shortcuts. Joining it ...

There’s an interesting change in the way iOS 4.2 handles orientation lock on the iPad… one that indicates a curious design backpedal on the part of Cupertino. Previously, orientation lock on the iPad ...

The orientation lock is an easily overlooked option in iOS/iPadOS Control Center that lets you prevent apps from rotating their view when your device detects it’s turned a corner. This can be useful ...

We're starting to think Steve Jobs doesn't want you watching your iPad in bed, as Apple ditches the handy orientation lock in favour of a function we can't think of a single use for. Richard Trenholm ...

Sometimes the simplest tips are the most helpful ones, and that’s certainly the case with today’s, which will show you how to enable orientation lock on your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Orientation ...

When iOS version 4.2 was released by Apple for the iPad, there was one change that didn’t go down too well with users. The switch of the Orientation Lock hardware button (the one next to the iPad’s ...

If you upgraded your iPad last week, you might have gotten the same surprise I did: The screen orientation lock on the side of the device no longer locks the screen in place. Quite unexpectedly, it ...