How do I lock rotation with iOS 4 / iOS 5?
The iOS 4 firmware update includes a rotation lock feature, similar to the rotation lock switch found on the first generation iPad.
iPhone 4 ships with iOS 4 and also has this capability. To enable rotation lock and prevent the screen from automatically changing orientation when the iPhone is turned:
1. Double click the home button to bring up the multitasking bar.
2. Swipe right until the last set of icons is displayed in the multitasking bar (these will include play/pause and skip buttons for iPod or Pandora).
3. The furthest left icon looks like a circular arrow - touch this icon to enable or disable rotation lock on the iPhone.
4. A rotation lock icon will appear in the status bar next to the battery charge icon when rotation lock is enabled. This looks like a circular arrow around a padlock.
When rotation lock is enabled apps will not respond to the accelerometer sensor.
Actually this button is NOT simular to the switch on the iPad. On the iPad you are able to stop rotation in both landscape and portrait view. All the button on the iPhone 4 does, is freezing the screen in portrait mode. So the functionality is really different.
I agree this functionality is really different. It would be great to see Apple enhance the iPhone rotation lock to work like the iPad lock: if you're in landscape mode, freeze it there.
When you are in landscape mode and want to freeze it, just turn your iphone the way that home button get on the top - that's all, you're still in landscape.
Some apps don't stop when you turn them into landscape mode.
For example: You are laying on your side on the bed using an app. You turn your phone sideways so that you can view it in the landscape mode. What happens next is that since the iPhone will be upside down and the app will reorient iself upside down and won't stay locked in landscape mode.
Not all apps do that, just some of them.
Works! Thats great!
Great help! Thanks a lot.
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1. Double tap the home key to access the background control screen.
2. Swipe-right until you see iPad and orientation controls
3. Click the Portrait Orientation lock button
you can watch it from here easy way from here
http://downloadroot.com/How%20To-Remove%20-iphone-Lock-Icon.html
Great Job..............I like you reply with the help of screenshots.................
thank you for that link, for some reason on mine I had to swipe left to find that icon. If not for the link I would have never figured this out.
Now I can read my books and not have the screen move - so frustrating. lol
For me, I had to find the orientation button by swiping the icons to the left not the right. But thanks so much for the screenshots. That helped!!
THIS IS IT! thanks!!
This response fails to thank the writer for helpful advice and ignores two key points. The distinction between, switch and function, and the meaning of the word similar.
Firstly, the very helpful advice offered above clearly suggests that, the BUTTON on the iphone is similar to the BUTTON the ipad, not the function. The issue in this response is that, the function is not the same, which is true, however, at no point does the writer refer to the function on the iphone as being the same as the function on the ipad, thus rendering the response invalid and ignorant. Secondly, the word, similar, is a comparative adjective used to compare two or more things. In this case the two things being compared are the button on the iPhone and iPad, which incidentally, are quite similar.
So, closer scrutiny is required before responding to helpful answers, and good manners go a long way.
Thank you to the writer of the answer to, "how do I lock the rotation of the screen on my phone". I can now lie on my side in bed and write responses correcting the ungrateful comments.
You need, to study, up on comma, usage.
I totally agree with you.
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at last!! someone knows what they are talking about.....
how quick and easy was that???
thanksssss a million !
Thank you so much for this basic response to about 100 questions in other forums regarding the accelerometer and rotation lock. After searching for about an hour I finally found a reference to rotation lock but not where to find the control button for it. Thanks again and I will be referring to iphone faq from now on as a first line of defense for iphone info and issues.
Brilliant! This simple manoeuvre has saved me a lot of grief in trying to get my shareprice charts display in landscape mode after i accidentally locked my screen rotation. Well done!
Thank you a lot for this article.
I upgraded yesterday my iPad to iOS 4.2 and almost the first things I realized as a change was the functional change of that button to mute/unmute. Thanks for this tip although for iPhone, worked well and I can continue enjoying my iBooks and web browsing.
I have written a blog article about my first experiences of iOS 4.2 and added a link to your excellent tip.
http://keijoknutasit.blogspot.com/2010/11/i-updated-my-ipad-os-to-ios-42.html
One more swipe to the right, and you get brightness control btw.
No you don't. You get audio volume control
Merci beacoup g enfin trouvé la solution apres l'avoir bloqué accidentellemnt. super !!!!!
Thanks so much! Somehow this info is hard to find, weird. Works perfect on my iPod Touch!
Thank you for a simple answer and just as simple intruction on how to fix this problem. I've been trying to unlock this feature for a few months now, and no one could tell me how. I'm about to see if it works for the iPad as well....just a second.....yes it does. For any one that wants to know it also works with the ipad. just follow the intructions given for the iPhone.
the ipad also has a switch on the side to lock the rotation
Thanks, Pal. For days I was wondering what the hell was that pad lock thing... when I read your post I realised that I did flick the switch when I tried to mute the Ipad. lol. Thanks heaps I feel like a fool..
Thank you so much for posting this. I almost bought an app to do this. :(
I really hate the automatic rotation thingee.
Best tip ever thank you so much!!!
Thank you so much...have been looking for how to do this for months. :)
I want to thank a simple answer and as simple intruction approach repair this issue. Seems attempting to unlock this feature for a couple weeks now, with no one could explaine to me exactly how. I'm going to see if functions for your iPad too.... only a 2nd..... indeed it will. For any one that wants to know it also works together with the apple ipad. just the actual intructions provided for the apple iphone. http://freesixflagsticket.net
Thanx very useful
1st, 2nd, 3rd gen itouch's don't have this option in ios 4 for whatever reason.
it´s because the haedware of the version is too slow, so it´s uncapeble of having a decent multitasking, ipod tough gen 1 & 2 will never be able to hold it, but if you change a preference in the deepest level of the ipod 3rd Gen, you´ll be able to use multitask (a slow an not very powerful one), but don´t overdoit!
Thanks dude!!!
I was so worried about this lock thing, Finally u gave me the answer ......
Thanks a lot
Cheers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks so much!!! I've accidently locked the rotation in my iPhone 4.. And for so many days, couldn't find the way to turn it back on... Now its working..
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I have an Ipod Touch 4.2.1 (8C148) and this does NOT work for me!!!!
When I double-click home button it only flips to search screen and no arrows or anything of that kind..PLEEEASE HELP ME, this really gets on my nerves :(
Thanks very much..
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To lock landscape view in iphone, you have to be jailbroken. Then you download a program called landscape lock rotation or something like that. It's fine 99% of the time, but sometimes it can be screwy, so I imagine that's why Apple only allows portrait lock.
Very helpful :) got it right away!
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This is wrong. The button will not lock the device into landscape mode which is what i need. It only works for portrait mode. Apple needs to fix the inability to use landscape mode in many apps. On my android device i can use landscape mode for ANY typing i have to do.
I wish I would have known about this hack earlier. I hate when the phone slides like that on me. Thanks greatly for the share!
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