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.
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