iPad Orientation Switch Fixed in 4.3

By Crom’s beard, it’s about damned time that they fixed this issue.

Pre-iOS 4.2, the iPad’s little switch on the side of the device next to the volume rocker was used to control the object’s orientation. With the introduction of iOS 4.3, the ability to use the switch as either a mute switch or an orientation switch will be enabled.

Normally, with it disengaged, the device would adjust between landscape and portrait mode via the accelerometer within the iPad. This can be the most annoying thing when trying to read something in bed or in a situation where you’re not using it in a way that would confuse the little bugger.

It was a handy switch that many of us loved to use. But when Apple pushed out the 4.2 update, it went away and we had to a double-click on the home button, swipe to the right and touch a button there to lock it. It got to be a real pain in the ass to use.

I’m just glad that with 4.3 we’ll get the option to choose what we want it to do. I bet you $10 bucks that they’re going to add more than just the two options with 4.4. Just wait.

by Alan Smithee

I sit upon my throne as the owner/shogun of this site, WatchPlayRead. But it wasn't always so. I too have had blogspots, I've done other community blogs, I've even written professionally for other sites out there...yet none of them provided the content I had a real passion for. It is then that I became tired of being a small cog in a big machine, and of writing about nothing but game news after game news article and the periphery that comes from such schlock, like knowing who Michael Pachter and Bobby Kotick are. I decided to start MediaWhoreNetwork.com and ran up my post count there for about 2 years, commenting about any and everything that I wanted to. I even started a weekly podcast that I feel has come into its own. It wasn't until earlier this year that I realized that having the word "whore" in your URL might be a bit limiting to my potential audience. I then made the website and its branding move over to WatchPlayRead.com.

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