I was reading in bed just the other day wishing that I could turn off autorotation. This is a serious need.
IPhone auto-rotation: out of control
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Re: IPhone auto-rotation: out of control
#12I haven't jailbroken my iPhone yet, but SBSettings has a solution for autorotation, and brightness, and almost anything that annoys me with my iPhone on a daily basis.
Now that I have seen SBSettings, I am considering jailbreaking. Apple should do something like SBSettings.
http://theappleblog.com/2009/06/22/sbsettings-why-i-still-ja...
Re: IPhone auto-rotation: out of control
#13Amen. The most annoying 'feature' on my iPhone is auto-rotate. I'll be driving along in my car with my iPhone being used as my iPod, and every time I lay the device down it goes into landscape and I need to put it back when I want to change a song.
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#14I haven't jailbroken my iPhone yet, but SBSettings has a solution for autorotation, and brightness, and almost anything that annoys me with my iPhone on a daily basis. Now that I have seen SBSettings, I am considering jailbreaking. Apple should do something like SBSettings. http://theappleblog.com/2009/06/22/sbsettings-why-i-still-ja...
Amen!
Re: IPhone auto-rotation: out of control
#15I haven't jailbroken my iPhone yet, but SBSettings has a solution for autorotation, and brightness, and almost anything that annoys me with my iPhone on a daily basis. Now that I have seen SBSettings, I am considering jailbreaking. Apple should do something like SBSettings. http://theappleblog.com/2009/06/22/sbsettings-why-i-still-ja...
You're right, it's almost enough to push one into jailbreaking. But I think I'd prefer to run a supported configuration. Computers shouldn't be unnecessarily exciting.
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#16I haven't jailbroken my iPhone yet, but SBSettings has a solution for autorotation, and brightness, and almost anything that annoys me with my iPhone on a daily basis. Now that I have seen SBSettings, I am considering jailbreaking. Apple should do something like SBSettings. http://theappleblog.com/2009/06/22/sbsettings-why-i-still-ja...
I have a Jailbroken iPhone with SBSettings and the Rotation switch.
First I find no problems with the rotation, I have a 1g iphone for more than a year now, and the only problem I had with rotation was when I was laying, with that SBsettings switch, it's solved.
Second, I agree that SBsettings is the most useful iPhone App and Apple should really look into its features and make them builtin.
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#17I recently acquired an iPod Touch, and have not been able to deduce how to activate the rotation feature reliably. I twist it around various which ways trying to make it rotate, and sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. Reading this article actually gives me a better idea of how to make it happen reliably. Specifically, I didn't realize that the accelerometer detects motion relative to gravity (makes sense, but I didn't know that).
Re: IPhone auto-rotation: out of control
#18I was reading in bed just the other day wishing that I could turn off autorotation. This is a serious need.
If you turn it so the home button points up, it won't rotate.
Edit: for clarity, hopefully.
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#19I'd like to be able to disable rotation in a web-app. Like a meta-tag or something.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
The iPhone's accessibility makes use of a lot of the two finger gestures already. Not this one, but most others. http://www.apple.com/iphone/how-to/index.html#accessibility.... . This particular gesture doesn't really make sense for Apple to use (for rotation, or anything else); its not very intuitive. It doesn't map to any other gesture that users have done on the computer before. Apple would have to teach users how…
I wouldn't suggest it as a default setting. If power users want an alternative to holding the device up and shaking it until it switches, this could be it. You make good points, it's not intuitive, but it is a solution that wouldn't require more cluttering UI
Where else is there an "Only for power users" feature in iPhone OS? There's no precedent for this sort of behavior in the iPhone's UI anywhere. No other built-in app has that kind of setting. The closest that I can think of is the developers debug menu in Safari. And thats not "hidden", its just tucked away because its only meant for developing and does get in the way otherwise.