How-To: Lock Portrait Mode on your iPhone

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Every iPhone owner has experienced the “switch-a-roo” while trying to get a little more work done on their iPhone before going to sleep or just enjoying a little late night browsing and quite frankly it’s so annoying when you screen goes one way and you want it to go another.

Well, I have a solution for you – lock your iPhone portrait mode. When Patrick showed me this, I quite frankly heard angelic songs of heaven come down as well as a beaming white light, it was amazing! So let me share this loveliness with you. All you iPhone bed web surfers will thank me.

When you lie down in bed with your iPhone or iPod running iOS 4 using any app that allows you to use the app in portrait or landscape mode (like Cram) you should lock portrait mode. To lock portrait mode:

1. Access your background tasks by double tapping the Home button.

2. Swipe all way to the left to view to the first screen. It’s the screen before the first page showing your apps.

3. Tap the left icon (the grey button with the lock button) to lock/unlock portrait mode.

Now that was simple and something that I am super thankful Apple included in the iOS 4 update. Unfortunately, this will only contribute to my late night iPhone browsing habit.