Stop rotating, dagnabbit.
March 8, 2011 11:07 PM Subscribe
How do i keep my ipod touch from rotating?
Sometimes I like to websurf on my ipod touch in bed. How do I keep it from auto-rotating?
Sometimes I like to websurf on my ipod touch in bed. How do I keep it from auto-rotating?
Response by poster: Dang it. I have an earlier version. Thanks for trying though!
posted by The ____ of Justice at 11:17 PM on March 8, 2011
posted by The ____ of Justice at 11:17 PM on March 8, 2011
Wow Telpethoron, I never knew about that. Works for the newer ones too. That will be handy. Thanks.
But if yours doesn't have that, you could use a browser from the App Store (I like Mercury) that has the option to lock the orientation.
If it's jailbroken then you can get something like Rotation Inhibitor from Cydia.
posted by tatma at 11:25 PM on March 8, 2011
But if yours doesn't have that, you could use a browser from the App Store (I like Mercury) that has the option to lock the orientation.
If it's jailbroken then you can get something like Rotation Inhibitor from Cydia.
posted by tatma at 11:25 PM on March 8, 2011
Are you reading it while lying on your side? If you don't mind reading in landscape mode, you can rotate it and then hold it that way -- the screen can't go into an upside-down orientation relative to the frame, which keeps it the text at right angles to the floor. It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize this.
posted by Rhaomi at 3:21 AM on March 9, 2011
posted by Rhaomi at 3:21 AM on March 9, 2011
For the record, the answer from Telpethoron's link was to double tap the home button to make the multi-task bar appear. Then swipe that bar to the right and one of the icons will be an orientation lock button. It looks like a reload button - an arrow in the form of a circle.
posted by ellenaim at 3:34 AM on March 9, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by ellenaim at 3:34 AM on March 9, 2011 [2 favorites]
I was going to recommend Atomic Web Browser, but strangely it seems to have been pulled from the store. It has a rotation lock setting that's independent of the system's.
posted by bcwinters at 4:32 AM on March 9, 2011
posted by bcwinters at 4:32 AM on March 9, 2011
Are you reading it while lying on your side? If you don't mind reading in landscape mode, you can rotate it and then hold it that way -- the screen can't go into an upside-down orientation relative to the frame, which keeps it the text at right angles to the floor. It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize this.
I was coming here to say almost this. For mine, it won't auto-rotate if I have it in landscape mode with the bottom edge slightly higher than the top edge. "Bottom" meaning the side of the iPod that would typically be down if I were holding it portrait-style.
So when I'm on my side and reading, when I flip myself over to the other side, I also have to flip my iPhone too.
posted by Ellemeno at 8:42 AM on March 9, 2011
I was coming here to say almost this. For mine, it won't auto-rotate if I have it in landscape mode with the bottom edge slightly higher than the top edge. "Bottom" meaning the side of the iPod that would typically be down if I were holding it portrait-style.
So when I'm on my side and reading, when I flip myself over to the other side, I also have to flip my iPhone too.
posted by Ellemeno at 8:42 AM on March 9, 2011
Response by poster: Thanks everyone! I'm going to try positioning it...and if that doesn't work, shell out the few bucks for Mercury.
I swear, it is a mini-comedy every night with me twirling my ipod round and round and cursing.
posted by The ____ of Justice at 1:30 PM on March 9, 2011
I swear, it is a mini-comedy every night with me twirling my ipod round and round and cursing.
posted by The ____ of Justice at 1:30 PM on March 9, 2011
Mine won't rotate so the screen is correct when the ipod is upside-down, if that makes sense. So, when in a precarious position, I now default to holding the ipod horizontally with the top-side (the half that has the cameras) lowest in my hand.
posted by msbrauer at 4:37 PM on March 9, 2011
posted by msbrauer at 4:37 PM on March 9, 2011
This thread is closed to new comments.
posted by Telpethoron at 11:11 PM on March 8, 2011 [1 favorite]