If you watched a streaming video of Steve Jobs’ iPad announcements a integrate weeks behind, you will have seen the proof of iOS 4.2 upon the iPad. You will doubtless have also beheld a shade orientation lock which appeared up in a pop-up multitasking wharf, as well as afterwards left on, utterly of course, to wonder about the predestine of the stream hardware lock-switch.

Thanks to a beta release of iOS 4.2 as well as a little intrepid explorers on a MacRumors forums, we have an answer. The hardware switch will return to its strange, pre-release function: a tongue-tied switch, only similar to on a iPhone. Back in those dim days prior to a iPad existed, you recollect that Apple updated the iPad specs page to change a symbol from tongue-tied to screen-rotation close. Now it has, in a current beta during slightest, altered behind.

It’s nice, as well as it equates to a Lady will no longer be annoyed during night by my tweeting, chirruping iPad as it notifies me of something I only have to know during 4AM. Better, yet, would be a hardware brightness control, something I referred to upon a Twitter final week. I substantially tweak a brightness as often as I do the volume as I move from place to place. And, amazingly, it appears that my instruct has (almost) been postulated. Take an additional look during the MacRumors screenshot on top of. What initial appears to be the volume slider is in actuality a lightness carryout. Thanks, Apple!

The open release of iOS 4.2 will be in November.

Apple Releases First iOS 4.2 Beta for iPad, iPhone, as well as iPod Touch [MacRumors Forum via MacRumors]