I'm coming to this thread late, so I'm sorry if it has already been
noted that to enable the three-finger swipe, the user must first touch
an icon on the screen's status line.

Craig

On 3/11/14, Ray T. Mahorney <mahorney....@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2 things here folks Siri can not open control center and I was able to get
> to the orientation lock
> by clamping the phone to the desk and doing the swipe that way.
>
>
> Ray T. Mahorney
> WA4WGA
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
> Of Wayne Merritt
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 14:17
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: locking orientation
>
> Ray,
> If you are not able to do the Control Center gesture from the status bar,
> the other ways I know of
> involve either using a Bluetooth keyboard or Braille display. If you don't
> have either of these, I
> don't know of another way to get to the Control Center other than the
> 3 finger swipe up after touching the status bar. It does appear that the
> settings/control center
> item does not yield anything useful; sorry about that. Perhaps someone has
> another idea. Perhaps you
> could open it with Siri.
>
> Wayne
>
> On 3/11/14, Ray T. Mahorney <mahorney....@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Iphone and that's not what I get when I press the control center
>> button the options I get appear to be whether access to the control
>> center is accessible on the locked screen.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Ray T. Mahorney
>>
>> WA4WGA
>>
>>
>>
>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On
>> Behalf Of Todd W
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 13:59
>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: Re: locking orientation
>>
>>
>>
>> Ray,
>>
>> Are you on an iPhone or iPad?  If you're on an iPad you can set the
>> side switch behavior to either mute/unmute or lock/unlock orientation.
>> This is found in Settings -> General -> Use side switch to...
>>
>> Unfortunately this option isn't available on the iPhone it seems.
>> Thelock orientation option is in the Control Center though, The
>> options are, from left to right: Airplane Mode, WiFi, Bluetooth,Do Not
>> Disturb, Lock Orientation.  Under this row of toggles is the
>> Brightness control and under that are the Music controls, then things
>> like Calculator, Clock, Flashlight are on the bottom row.
>>
>> Todd
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Ray T. Mahorney
>> <mahorney....@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I can't make any of that work when I go into control center I see
>> nothing that says anything about locking orientation and three finger
>> swipes are physically difficult so there has to gbe another way to do
>> that?
>>
>>
>> Ray T. Mahorney
>> WA4WGA
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On
>> Behalf Of Wayne Merritt
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 13:00
>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: Re: locking orientation
>>
>> Go to the Control Center, either from Settings, or by touching the
>> status bar and doing a 3 finger swipe up. If you then flick through
>> the items, there will be a lock orientation button which you can
>> double tap to lock.
>>
>> Hth,
>> Wayne
>>
>> On 3/11/14, Ray T. Mahorney <mahorney....@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> how is this done in IOS7 again?
>>>
>>>
>>> Ray T. Mahorney
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>>>
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