iPad rage

[.matthew.]

I get predictive text on my Andriod / Amazon Fire tablet, it is one of the bane's of my life, I hate it, I type in a long sentence and half the words change, I just typed in bane and came out band and the second time babe, I am always having to correct things!!!

I'm still trying to figure out how if I type "the" my phone is able to predict an entire opening sentence from a short story I wrote a few years ago... on a computer... one word at a time.

 

[Foxbat]

It’s true that there is some free stuff available but I refuse to use those applications. Why, you may ask...because if stuff is free, there is absolutely no need for apple to have either my personal details or my credit card number. And while it’s true you don’t need to input CC details for free stuff, you still need to record personal information. Not acceptable.

 

[Foxbat]

Once again, Apple’s utter stupidity causes me grief. I wanted to lock the orientation of the screen of my iPad but refuse to give Apple any personal details so therefore I cannot download the manual. At first, I thought common sense could prevail. Where could it be, I wondered. Of course! In the settings menu. Wrong! After faffing about for a while, I decided to search the internet. Touch the bottom of the screen and swipe up, the guru said. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. Sweet F. A.

After some more faffing about I discovered that it all depends on model type. My orientation lock was available after swiping diagonally downward from the top right corner. Of course! It all makes sense.....if you’ve got a telepathic link to Apple HQ.

It’s a setting! Put it in the settings menu, you bunch of morons!

And this example of inconsistent idiocy, folks, is why I will never buy another Apple product again. What the hell is the point of making good quality hardware only to have an operating system updated by a random number of monkeys making random changes in the hope of gaining a few more bananas.....or should that be iBananas.

 

[Dave]

To which you reply 14, Mars and parthenogenesis - I bet they'll still try to sell you things...

Presumably, very large shoes for the ants from Mars?

I wanted to lock the orientation of the screen of my iPad

I was using an iPad for work a few weeks ago and it took me almost an hour to work out how to do exactly that! Why so difficult? I knew it must be possible but the settings are so complicated.

I was using it outdoors, so I also had to spend another hour turning everything that I didn't require off otherwise the battery would never last. As you say, there are so many different apps running in the background that are pointless and trivial, but all use up battery power quickly. (And yes, I also had two power packs!)

 

[dask]

Feel bad you guys are having so much trouble. I really like my iPad. Of course, I don’t use it for work or anything but for what I do it’s a lot easier than my Amazon Fire tablet.

 

[Dave]

First, I wouldn't know to call it "orientation lock" if I searched. Second, I just expected it to be easier to find - go to settings, find it next to turn down volume. Not a requirement to search it online. I don't think I opened the control centre that way, I found some other way. Third, I may have exaggerated the "an hour" part.

 

[dask]

First, I wouldn't know to call it "orientation lock"

Same here. I only used it because that’s what Foxbat called it. Yes, you’re right, it should be located in settings. I did have this problem months ago and was able to discover the control center but like both of you it took me a while. Not that it matters but a yahoo search of “how to unlock a screen on iPad“ will yield the same result I got for “orientation lock”.

 

[Dave]

I think the iPad is good too, far better than the alternative tablets that mimic it. I think Foxbat's main problem is with Apple's marketing and business model, and he is far from alone there: it's practically a standing joke about Apple selling products and accessories that will only work with each other. I also think that their settings and controls are too complicated. My iPhone has about three or four different volume controls in different places which you need to find and adjust to lower ringtones. It may even be more than that. It isn't user friendly and if I have difficulty using it, and I consider my self fairly techie, I'm sure that others will have more difficulty.

 

[.matthew.]

Well, I don't know about the iPad but I can't believe the lock isn't just on the dropdown 'menu' like on android tablets and phones.

On a lighter note, Apple are getting sued for unfair app store practices by Epic Games. Unfortunately, despite my disgust for most things Apple does, them wanting to take a cut of profits from stuff sold on their devices doesn't seem that wrong to me. Yes, I think people should NOT use their devices because of this stuff, but Apple themselves shouldn't be punished for what almost every country in the world does (basically it's VAT).

Also, I'm finding it really hard to get behind Epic Games, who while I like that they give out free games (if only to build their market share), are possibly more morally reprehensible than Apple. Epic Games created Fortnite from the ground up (before development began) by hiring a bunch of addiction specialists and child psychologists and figuring out how best to get children addicted to their title so they could start bleeding them dry with digital currency transactions...

 

[dask]

Here’s a screenshot of settings in my old iPad, OS10:

Evidently at one time you could access what is now referred to as “orientation lock” in settings, at least I assume that’s what “Lock Rotation“ is referring to.

 

[Stephen Palmer]

I notice nobody has mentioned the Apple Mac computer - i.e. not the iPhone, not the iPad - of which I've had four since 1995, all of them the best computers ever made.

 

[Foxbat]

Here’s a screenshot of settings in my old iPad, OS10:
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Evidently at one time you could access what is now referred to as “orientation lock” in settings, at least I assume that’s what “Lock Rotation“ is referring to.

This is the most infuriating thing about the iPad. It varies from model to model. I don’t know how to take a screenshot (it probably differs from model to model) but my general settings does not have this. As I said earlier: home screen, swipe diagonally down from top right to get it.

Edit: my model does not have a side switch and yours says to use this to operate the lock.

 

[Foxbat]

Figured it out how to take a screenie.

 

[Foxbat]

The padlock next to the crescent moon is the orientation lock.

 

[Joshua Jones]

Part of me says I should be grateful to live in a time where I can access the majority of the collective works and wisdom of human history at the touch of a button on a sophisticated device which, not 50 years ago, was the stuff of SF.

Then, there's part of me that screams at the sky that this piece of crap is so limited in customization, that it's logo is surely a reflection of the deal with Satan Steve Jobs surely made, and I can't believe I let my wife talk me into getting this thing as part of a promotion for a free iPhone. This part of me usually wins out...