The iPad does not have SMS, phone calls, etc with a bunch of possible sound issues cropping up to justify a hardware mute switch. It just doesn't happen all that much. On the iPad, the extra steps of ...

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 ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The iPad is designed to rotate the screen automatically in response to how you hold it. However, sometimes, the screen doesn't rotate the way it ...

While the iPad's ability to stay fixed in portrait or landscape mode is useful for some scenarios, such as full-screen presentations or reading e-books, allowing the display to rotate based on how ...

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 ...

As we comb through the updated Apple website for more iPad-related clues, up pops this new picture detailing the physical buttons on the iPad. Now, in addition to the sleep/wake, home and volume ...

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 ...

It wasn't there in January, but it's sure there now: the iPad seems to have traded its mute switch for a screen rotation lock ahead of its official launch on April 3.

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.

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 ...