> iPhone Central mentioned a way to get the iPhone to behave during sideways bedtime reading like this :
The other day I was lying on my side, trying to read a web page on the iPhone. I turned the iPhone 90° clockwise, but it obligingly re-rotated the text 90° counter-clockwise, leaving me again out of sync. I grumbled something about the irritation of being outmaneuvered by a handheld gadget. Amy’s brilliant suggestion: rotate it another 90° CCW. Since the iPhone doesn’t offer 180° rotation, this left the text rotated 90° in alighnment with my head.> intomobile offered iPhone users another solution to using the iPhone in bed like this :
Let's start off by assuming that you are reading in bed in a seated position. We will keep our iPhone in the horizontal/landscape orientation. It's important to have your iPhone orientated so the home-button is to the right of the display. Now, lay on your side and rotate the speaker side (left-side) of the iPhone toward the bed - another way to think about this is to rotate the home-button side of the iPhone (the right-side) toward the ceiling. The iPhone will not rotate the display into portrait orientation with the home-button on top, so your iPhone's screen will remain in landscape-view to keep in line with your head.A simple iPhone tip, but one that will immeasurably improve your night-time reading.
26 comments on "iPhone Tips - Stop Auto-Rotating for Bedtime Reading"
So is there no way to just turn it off? The flipping gets annoying.
Apparently not, thanks to apple's genius 1-button philosophy. Why would you want to turn off such an awesome annoying feature such as rotate? Apple's great but they really fall down on some things that are stupid-simple.
Home button up is fine with Safari, however iPod application to watch video does not behave the same way. If home button is up, video rerotates and image is actually upside down (useless in all means)...
On PBS the other day, there was a documentry on the importance of design. The iphone was an example of great design. True - it is great in many ways. BUT SO MANY FLAWS. Clearly Steve Jobs has someone read to him in bed. And he has obviously never put his phone in his pocket or else he'd realize how easy it is for the ringer to turn on when that slider ringer key touches anything in your pocket. At least the iphone doesn't assume everyone wants to download everything into one massive download folder and find it later by remembering one word in the document (which searchlight likely won't find anyway).
I can't beleive there is no app to solve it by just simply turning if off...
Such a shame for apple
There is one app that solves this problem it's atomic web browser it has a lock rotation feature on it, if they can do it I don't see why jobbsey can't
There is an app called iNoRotate, but it's only for jailbroken iphones.
You CAN stop it from doing this! I feel like I've found the holy Grail or something. Double click on the button on the front and it brings you up the apps you've used recently, and swipe towards the right, to bring the left over, and it brings up a button with a round arrow in, click the round arrow, and it says iPhone orientation locked. And that's it! All portrait for reading. You can turn it off again by going to the same thing and clicking on the button again. :D
Home button*
When I double clicking the round button it opens the favorites file in the calling menu. I wish there was a way to stop the flipping. It's irritating as hell.
Toni, you're a genius!! Thank you SO much. I've been reading iBooks in bed and the rotate feature was irritating, to say the least. Now, I just hope I remember how to turn auto-rotate back on tomorrow. :-)
Apple have actually thought of a way to stop the auto-rotate function. All you have to do is follow these 3 simple steps:
1) "double click" the home button, so that the task bar appears at the bottom of the screen.
2) Scroll the bar to the right.
3) Click on the circular arrow. This will place a padlock symbol within the circular arrow and Hey Presto, locked!
Hope this helps people.
Gareth.
I can't get my iphone 3g to double click to the recently used apps. Therefore I can't seem to get to where I turn off auto rotate. Any suggestions?
I am using the iTouch and it's so annoying that this doesn't work. The unit is about a year old, so I don't have anything popping up when I double click the home (only!) button. And to think if this was my Android phone someone would have written an app...if it was needed
Thank you so much, your solution worked!
Great!!! Thanks alott
It worked perfect. Thank you very much mate.
When I double click the home button, my iPod appears. Not whatever youre talking about. :(
You guys do realise that your problem only lies in a generation that's been overpassed twice? IPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 can both turn it off by going to the iPod controls and touching the rotating button, for the others, either you download some equivalent app that does a similar job and that has a feature to turn it off, or you just continue using the amazing piece of hardware that probably wouldn't exist in any other format yet if it wasn't for Apple or you switch to a newer device that thought through some more flaws... You gotta give credit where it is deserved, I read in bed, on the side, I have an iPhone 3G, I usually rotate it 45 degrees or whatever it allows me to without rotating the display... I adjusted my life to a single device that is incredible, I thought that this was adjustable too...
For those who don't care and are just whiny: It's impossible to turn it off on iPhone and iPhone 3G
but if i have deleated all of My reacently used apps, does anyone know how to find it then?
There is a way. If you quickly double cllick the centre button to make the shortcuts go on, go yo the beginning and press an icon which has an arrow going around. When you press it, it should say PortraitOrientation Locked :)
It's been, like over 3 months since I last used a 3G, but I don't think the 3G will do this. Gotta upgrade to the 4G, man!
Toni, thanx so much. I was so amazed that there is a way to control the damn auto rotate! Thanx for sharing!!
For iPhone 3G users. Jailbreak phone, go to Cydia, search and install "Features", and "Winterboard". After installed you can turn on what features you want from list thru Winterboard.
Guys this only works on iPhone 4 not 3!!
Thank you so much tony^^ xoxo
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