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 ...

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 ...

Some iPad apps and programs are optimal when viewed broad landscape view, others in narrow portrait orientation; locking an iPad's screen's rotation prevents frustration during use. If your iPad ...

There’s nothing worse than your phone switching orientations on you at random, just because you tilted it slightly too far in one direction or another. OK, there are things worse than that, but ...

That is all. I don't need a mute switch on my iPad. I don't like having to double tap and swipe and tap and double tap to lock and unlock the rotation. The hardware rotation lock switch was brilliant.