Comment by eszed

Comment by eszed 7 hours ago

Earlier this year I set an iPad up for my elderly dad - it was going to be used for podcasts and YouTube, only - and it looked like it was going to be ideal. "What a great feature," I thought!

Except... There is no way to turn off screen rotation. None. It can't be done in the Assistive Access menu, and doesn't respect the setting in normal mode. It just always rotates. I spent an hour on the phone with Apple Support, and there's nothing to be done about it.

My dad couldn't deal with his icons rotating around on the screen, nor not being able to watch videos while lying down. It gathered dust.

albumen 14 minutes ago

Re rotation lock: iOS 18.6.2 does disable rotation lock whether you've turned it on or off; I just tried Assistive Access in both configurations.

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JumpCrisscross 7 hours ago

> There is no way to turn off screen rotation

Control Center > Rotation Lock [1]. It's been a feature for years for pilots.

[1] https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/rotate-your-iphone-sc...

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mulmen 6 hours ago

Does this work in Assistive Access?
I would try it myself but I’m scared I will get trapped.

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- lucb1e 10 minutes ago
  
  I had the same worry but after pressing "next" like 15 times and waiting for 15 pages to load, the last page of Apple's documentation on Assistive Access tells you that you can exit it by triple clicking the "side button" (pointing to the power button, so not the side volume buttons I guess but idk). I went ahead after that and while it needed a few more presses, it ended up working that way, so you can enter and exit at will (at least, once you managed to enter; see my other comment for issues on that front...)
  
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- yard2010 an hour ago
  
  I think this comment is the essence of this post and the general sentiment. They make software the user is scared to interact with. This is backwards Apple. They just need to do the opposite of what they're doing and they nail it.
  
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squigz 2 hours ago

GP already said it doesn't respect that setting.

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- albumen 16 minutes ago
  
  iOS 18.6.2 does disable rotation lock whether you've turned it on or off; I just tried Assistive Access in both configurations.
  
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