Can't rotate picture in photos anymore on ipad (not2) since update

US$3 vs US$500. You can get the feature without having to buy new hardware.

Yes people must complain and complain loundly. I've not only filed a bug report, but also tried writing to a number of the blogs that reviewed iOS5. Lets put this into real perspective, I don't know how many iPad 1s were sold but it is surely over 10 million. That means that Apple with iOS5 effectively downgraded the devices of over 10 million customers. There should be an out cry against this action not only by customers, but the blogs also. I guess they must get too much advertising money from Apple to be critical.

Anyway, if you have an iPad 1, complain to Apple and your favorite blogs!

THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO reason to believe that this downgrade of capability on the iPad 1 has anything to do with the connection kit. The only half baked reason that I heard of that made any sense was that it had to do with that there was no camera on the iPad 1. However there is not technical reason for not supporting editing on the iPad one. Remember the iPad 1 was sold as a device to store and manage your photos on. And please don't bring up third party apps. Why should a custore have to pay for a capabily when it already existed and the other iOS5 devices all have it? When you use a third party app to rotate an image, the rotated image is stored as a new image and you end up with two images instead of one. It is incredibly difficult to belive what Apple has done to iPad 1 customers.

Was the original iPad really sold as a device to MANAGE PHOTOS on? I'm not so sure. The original iPad copies the photos from your iPhoto application on your Mac. Seems to me that folks would do the rotation in iPhoto long before the photos reached the iPad.

iPad 1 users frequently load their images directly from either the camera or the SD card. If you don't like the work "managed", I will substitute store and view. I just got back from a trip in Paris where I had stored all my images onto my iPad. I had to rotate a number of them and was able to do so under iOS 4. When I upgraded to iOS 5, I lost that ability. So, yes I believe that apple marketed the iPad one as a device to store, view, and to perform at least the trivial rotation of photos. The question that needs to be answered is why is this capability not available for the iPad 1 under iOS5. If I were cynical, I would say to encourage new sales. I don't believe that, but I do believe that it was a decision that was clearly made by apple that did not take into consideration the 10 million plus owers of iPad 1s.

The loss of the rotate feature for IPAD 1 users has made the connection kit useless.

If I cannot load my pictures from a camera and rotate them on the IPAD 1 I have no use for the Apple Connection Kit.

Apple should give me a refund for the $30 Connection Kit since the features to Manage (Rotate).

I did not say the issue is with the Connection Kit, however without the rotate feature the connection kit is worthless on the IPAD 1.

This forum is refering to an IPAD 1!

The forum is about the iPad. And that is the confusing part sometimes, because we now have two models and it is not always obvious about which version the comments are directed.

This particular thread is about the original iPad, but it is about a set of features that we were not all aware had been removed from the original iPad. That the feature is a subset of features not available to the original iPad has now been researched and well established to be the case in other comments in this thread.

without the rotate feature the connection kit is worthless on the IPAD 1.

Only to those who refuse to use a 3rd party editing app. Many already do, many more will now that this particular feature is gone.

Dah•veed wrote:

without the rotate feature the connection kit is worthless on the IPAD 1.

Only to those who refuse to use a 3rd party editing app. Many already do, many more will now that this particular feature is gone.

You are really not contributing anything useful to this conversation. 10 million iPad 1 users are left high and dry by Apple and you only suggestion is to buy a third party app. If you had ever used the connection kit, you would know that the lack of image rotation makes it useless for all practical purposes.

You are really not contributing anything useful to this conversation.

You are entitled to your opinion. I am representing the truth as I see it so that folks who read this thread are not presented a one-sided view of the options available here. And I have tried to be nothing but useful. The OP also gave me a Helpful designation on my comment offering a 3rd party alternative. When confronted with a glass of water there are three approaches

1.The optimist - the glass is part full

2. The pessimist - the glass is part empty

3. The engineer - the glass is too big

Which one are you? So far on this topic you are a pessimist with a completely defeatist attitude. Hopefully you are more cheerful in other aspects of life.

If you had ever used the connection kit, you would know that the lack of image rotation makes it useless for all practical purposes.

I use the Camera Connection Kit. I do not find that not using the Photo app to rotate makes the CCK useless, even though I have an iPad 2. I rotate photos in a 3rd party photo editing app with no issues.

Ok, this might help. Dah•veed, if you give everyone that's complained here the $3 (since it really isn't that much, eh?), we promise to use it to buy the app and then we'll all be happy. See, that wasn't so hard.