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I wish something was done about rotation lock for reading in bed. Activating it from Control Center, which itself changes orientation, is maddening.

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You can swipe up from the bottom of the screen, and on the menu there enable the orientation lock.

No, the point is precisely that the bottom of the screen also changes with the orientation.

Do it while you're laying on your back and starting up at your phone, instead of after you've already rolled over?

This seems like an extremely minor thing, and I'm not sure what your proposed solution would be.

I guess any sort of trouble with the iPhone is an extremely minor thing in the grand scheme of things.

What to do about it? I can't presume to know what they tested and rejected, but screen orientation control needs to be independent of screen orientation.

It should always be at the "bottom" of the screen. If the "bottom" doesn't match whatever the bottom of your app is, that's likely because the app is configure to only appear in landscape or portrait so it only responds to a large enough position change to trigger a 180-degree flip. Basically, this isn't as simple as it appears because of the potential interactions between app types and what the OS supports.

TL;DR: If you have a landscape only app, trigger the lock before you launch the app and it should stay in place.

It's always at the "bottom", but the bottom changes, which requires changing the grip to reach the control, which triggers another rotation and so on.

And they should employ the developer of the SwipeSelection tweak and build it into iOS:

https://youtu.be/OD_g5szHGWo?t=79

For what it's worth, they already have something similar (for 3D-touch enabled models). Surprisingly, few 6S owners I know are aware of this feature.

http://9to5mac.com/2015/09/23/best-iphone-6s-feature-3d-touc...

This feature applies to other models, but without 3D-Touch it is activated with a two-finger scroll across the keyboard area. Very handy.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/06/11/first-look-ios-9s-...

The iOS 9 beta had an option in Settings to change the side switch's functionality between silence and orientation lock. Unfortunately, this was pulled before stable release.

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