Save the iPad's Orientation Lock
Published October 28, 2010
Apple, Inc. intends to REMOVE the Orientation Lock functionality of the hardware slide switch on the iPad.
Pre-release review copies of iOS 4.2 for iPad (due in November 2010) have revealed that the slide switch currently used as the "Orientation Lock" will change exclusively to a "Mute" switch, to create function parity with the iPhone.
Muting an iPad via hardware switch is ALREADY enabled - holding the "volume down" hardware button for about a full second performs this function.
By its very physical nature, the large iPad is often used in varying physical orientations - such as resting on the user's lap to type - where the accelerometer inappropriately re-orients the display. Using an iPad while lying on one's side - a practice no doubt increasing in popularity even now - is only possible with Orientation Locking.
Recent press has suggested that Apple will NOT make the switch's function software-configurable - it will ONLY be a mute switch, and Orientation Lock will only be available through a multi-step process (which on the iPhone currently requires five user actions).
While it may be too late to make this change in the impending release of iOS 4.2 for iPad, this could certainly be accomplished in a future software update.
If you find the Orientation Lock switch useful, please indicate to Apple, Inc. that you wish to have the OPTION to continue to use it by signing this petition.
Thank you.
Pre-release review copies of iOS 4.2 for iPad (due in November 2010) have revealed that the slide switch currently used as the "Orientation Lock" will change exclusively to a "Mute" switch, to create function parity with the iPhone.
Muting an iPad via hardware switch is ALREADY enabled - holding the "volume down" hardware button for about a full second performs this function.
By its very physical nature, the large iPad is often used in varying physical orientations - such as resting on the user's lap to type - where the accelerometer inappropriately re-orients the display. Using an iPad while lying on one's side - a practice no doubt increasing in popularity even now - is only possible with Orientation Locking.
Recent press has suggested that Apple will NOT make the switch's function software-configurable - it will ONLY be a mute switch, and Orientation Lock will only be available through a multi-step process (which on the iPhone currently requires five user actions).
While it may be too late to make this change in the impending release of iOS 4.2 for iPad, this could certainly be accomplished in a future software update.
If you find the Orientation Lock switch useful, please indicate to Apple, Inc. that you wish to have the OPTION to continue to use it by signing this petition.
Thank you.
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