The Apple iPad's screen orientation rotates depending on how the device is held, the screen turning from a landscape view to a horizontal view as necessary to maintain optimal visibility. Users may ...

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. As we comb through the updated Apple website for more iPad-related clues, up pops this new picture detailing the ...

Apple revealed a minor tweak to the iPad hardware when preorders began Friday morning, with a button previously designated for audio muting changed to a "screen rotation lock." As first noticed by Jim ...

The easiest way to rotate your iPhone or iPad screen is by physically tilting the device. As long as the Orientation Lock toggle isn't turned on, you can easily switch between Portrait and Landscape ...

The side button on the iPad can be configured to either lock the screen rotation feature or mute the device. In iOS 7, you configure the side button in the General settings menu, just as with previous ...

Looks like Apple has been hard at work making some final tweaks to the design and functionalist of the iPad. As you can see in the image above, previously there was a mute switch above the volume ...

As has been widely reported, 4.2 apparently turns the switch on the side of the iPad from a screen rotation lock into a mute switch. Not having 4.2 myself, I can't comment on my direct experience with ...

Jim Dalrymple at The Loop spotted a small but important change to the iPad’s hardware functionality: the switch previously set for mute has been changed to a screen lock. Seems trivial, but I suspect ...

When Apple first introduced the iPad in late January, we noted with much disappointment that the device had no way to lock the screen orientation. This is apparently no longer the case, ...

Apple has made its minimalist reputation by paring down hardware controls to the bare necessities, and one of the more useful switches has been the screen rotation lock on the side of the iPad.

Pull down Control Center from the top right. Make sure your iPad is in the orientation you’d like it to be locked in. Underneath the system functions (Airplane Mode, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, etc)., tap on ...

There’s nothing worse than your phone switching orientations on you at random, just because you tilted it slightly too far in one direction or another. OK, there are things worse than that, but ...