The ability for an Android smartphone’s display to change orientation to match the phone’s physical orientation is nothing new, but a feature included in the fourth Android Q beta will be a welcomed ...

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 ...

As a business owner, you will find yourself using your iPad to view a variety of documents, such as emails and graphs. Depending on the type of document, you may want to view it in either portrait or ...

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 ...

Android P has introduced quite a few changes over Android Oreo that have been fun to play with these past few weeks. We detailed most of them here, but one that we haven’t talked much about yet is the ...

Android P DP2 brings a rotation lock button to the Pixel Launcher which, if you’ve got a device with the Pixel launcher installed that’s capable of running on the second developer preview of Android P ...

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 ...

Two things I use all the time in one elegant shortcut. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac I finally figured out the perfect set of controls to assign to the iPhone’s Action button. I created a ...

I played with an iPad on the weekend and accidentally discovered that just holding down the Volume Down button for a moment longer than one usually would, actually mutes the device (or seemed to ...