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iPhone Tips - Stop Auto-Rotating for Bedtime Reading. Some tips for iphone users who enjoy reading on iPhone in bed. When bedtime means iPhone-time! Whether its browsing through RSS feeds, keeping up to date with favorite forums, or reading an eBook through Safari, the iPhone can be critical to bedroom experience.

The one problem is that you usually read whilst lying on your side, and that means you usually want your iPhone to do the same. Unfortunately, when you rotate your iPhone 90 degrees (to stay in line with head’s orientation), the screen automatically rotates and leaves you out of sync with iPhone’s display. The slick auto-rotate feature that people love so much during the day becomes the bane of your nighttime reading. So, what’s an iPhone-user to do?

> 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 tip, but one that will immeasurably improve your night-time reading.