Just got a 5th gen iPad Air and this is driving me nuts. I’m on iPadOS 15 and I don’t see the option to make the buttons stay the same regardless of orientation. Is there a way?
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iPad Pro Volume buttons are assigned differently
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Same here. The “old” way has driven me nuts for years, as it ran counter to the way my brain believed it should be. Of course, as you say, muscle memory kicked in, so now I need to ”un-learn” it. What doesn’t make sense is that there’s an option to select which behavior you want in some (most?) iPads, but not on the M2? Puzzling.
Weird that it's gone on the new ones since my 9.7" Pro still has the toggle. Everyone should leave feedback.
I think I’m already used to it. It’s a little weird, but i get it, the direction flows with the onscreen volume prompt. Whatever I guess.
I'm so annoyed that this setting is gone on M2's.
Why???
I can get used to it but I prefer the way I had it for years on my previous iPads.
Why???
I can get used to it but I prefer the way I had it for years on my previous iPads.
This right here.
I think the majority of the people who miss the original way like myself, are possibly more mechanically oriented and never have to think which way a screw or bolt turns while body is in awkward potion; i.e. reaching under a table while looking from above to turn a bolt, the direction comes almost instinctively.
Now I have to fight the learned ”button closet to the edge is always volume up” no matter the orientation.
I literally have to think about the volume direction while in landscape. Grrr
I really hope they bring the option back To change it either way.
And counterintuitively, the iPhone when in landscape mode viewing video, the buttons do not change and get reassigned like on the iPad. Makes no sense. So, iPad=change; iPhone=no change. Got it.
The option to change the volume button behaviour is only shown on older iPads that shipped with 'fixed' volume buttons. It lets you switch to the new style "up/right is always louder, down/left is always quieter" buttons if you want.
On newer iPads that shipped with the new style buttons (10, Mini 6, Air 5, Pro M2), there is no option to switch back to the older style buttons.
On newer iPads that shipped with the new style buttons (10, Mini 6, Air 5, Pro M2), there is no option to switch back to the older style buttons.
On my Air 5 I am learning to live with it but I still make mistakes. It's annoying that this behavior doesn't line up with how the iPhone behaves in landscape mode. It would be easy to just include a button that changes the behavior so the user can choose or making the same change on the iPhone so it makes sense across apple devices.
Now that I’ve gotten used to it on my iPad I am getting it mixed up when I go back to landscape on my iPhone (watching video) where the left button is still volume up. Apple really doing dumb things now.
This is bothersome. When the iPad is in portrait mode, with the charging port at the bottom and the on/off at the top, pressing the top volume button raises volume and the one below lowers volume. This is home base.
When I rotate my iPad the volume buttons are up and the on/off button is to my left. The buttons should stay the same, with the volume button closest to the on/off button being the volume up. THIS SHOULD NOT CHANGE. EVER. Unless it’s a non default setting.
I’m a pilot and fly an all glass cockpit, and it would be insane to change the function of the hard buttons based on the orientation of the aircraft!
this really messes with my brain
When I rotate my iPad the volume buttons are up and the on/off button is to my left. The buttons should stay the same, with the volume button closest to the on/off button being the volume up. THIS SHOULD NOT CHANGE. EVER. Unless it’s a non default setting.
I’m a pilot and fly an all glass cockpit, and it would be insane to change the function of the hard buttons based on the orientation of the aircraft!
this really messes with my brain
How about if in one plane the buttons switch and in the other model they don’t. Not confusing at all right? Lol…This is bothersome. When the iPad is in portrait mode, with the charging port at the bottom and the on/off at the top, pressing the top volume button raises volume and the one below lowers volume. This is home base.
When I rotate my iPad the volume buttons are up and the on/off button is to my left. The buttons should stay the same, with the volume button closest to the on/off button being the volume up. THIS SHOULD NOT CHANGE. EVER. Unless it’s a non default setting.
I’m a pilot and fly an all glass cockpit, and it would be insane to change the function of the hard buttons based on the orientation of the aircraft!
this really messes with my brain
It does if you rotate the phone counter clockwise. 😁
I agree that it should be an option.
+1 to give back an option on my new iPad M2.
i’ve been using iPad since the very first in 2010… and 12 yrs of physical memory are hard to defeat: the volume UP is always THAT button, close to the angle…
i’ve been using iPad since the very first in 2010… and 12 yrs of physical memory are hard to defeat: the volume UP is always THAT button, close to the angle…
Haha yes +1 to the idea that Apple should at least allow us the option to switch it back to how we were used to it working!
Also find it odd that the iPhone doesn’t obey this principle although I am running iOS 14.3 so not sure if it has changed since? (I know I know, I‘ve got a bajillion tabs open and don’t want iOS 15/Safari 15.0 to disappear them all! Need to go back and sort them all lol).
Also find it odd that the iPhone doesn’t obey this principle although I am running iOS 14.3 so not sure if it has changed since? (I know I know, I‘ve got a bajillion tabs open and don’t want iOS 15/Safari 15.0 to disappear them all! Need to go back and sort them all lol).
I completely agree with the view that what Apple have done by removing the option to customise this function is WRONG!!!! Having used my Air2 for 7 years, decided to buy a new PRO because the Air was so good, NIGHTMARE! The volume buttons have change positions (AND KEEP CHANGING), and now discovering on this forum that they can’t be changed back is MOST ANNOYING. I don’t mind Apple adding these new features from time to time as I sometimes adopt the new feature, but messing with one of the most basic physical inputs “VOLUME” without the option to change to what you are SOOOoooo used to. INEXCUSABLE 😩
Totally share the frustrations here. When I use my iPhone in landscape the volume buttons are the same as they were in portrait. When I use my iPad the buttons change. WTF?! Does not make sense to me at all and there should at least be an option to change this to how it always used to be. While it is probably true that a normal landscape device has volume up on the right, I can think of no other device where button configuration changes with orientation. It’s just wrong
It’s still an option on my 9.7” iPP. Personally I like and have no problem with this change; has everyone frustrated by it sent feedback to Apple requesting it be an option on all iPads?
So is it like this then?
iPads starting from the Mini 6 don’t have the option to change from iPadOS 15 onwards, and the change was introduced for older iPads on iPadOS 16 but it allows you to revert back? My Air 5 doesn’t have the option and my 9.7-inch iPad Pro, the same model you have, is on iOS 12.
I reckon it started with the Mini 6, all iPads after it apparently do not have the option. My Air 5 (M1) on iPadOS 15.6 doesn’t have the option, and apparently iPadOS 16 doesn’t add it either.
I really can't believe this is causing such a stink. In portrait mode, top button is louder, lower button is quieter. In landscape mode, left is quieter and right is louder. Same as literally EVERY physical volume control there has ever been in the history of forever. It was ergonomically wrong before, in portrait. But you know what I didn't do? Create a goddamn scene about it on a public forum because meh it wasn't really a big deal.
Newbies who join purely to say it's "INEXCUSABLE" in funking great capital letters need to give their head a wobble. How do you cope with real life?
Newbies who join purely to say it's "INEXCUSABLE" in funking great capital letters need to give their head a wobble. How do you cope with real life?