The iPad’s screen-lock switch, formerly private in a program refurbish, will be back soon by renowned demand.

Apple moments ago expelled a beta version of iOS 4.3, a next version of its mobile handling system. Some beta testers have beheld that the menu choice allows iPad clientele to set the physical switch to lock a shade to stay in landscape or mural mode.

The iPad already used to do this in comparison versions of iOS. However, in iOS 4.2 Apple incited the switch into a tongue-tied button.

Several iPad clientele polled by Wired.com found which modification to be intensely irritating: Many use Apple’s inscription for reading and examination video (rather than listening to song, so a screen-lock switch was distant some-more useful than the tongue-tied switch.

Now, thanks to many outspoken nerds who complained about a change, iOS 4.3 appears to allow iPad customers to set the switch’s functionality to locking the screen or muting a volume. The screenshot above comes from the beta chronicle of iOS 4.3, that means it will expected make it to the last version of a software update.

Hurray — yours indeed along with Wired.com’s Charlie Sorrel will be blissful at your convenience iOS 4.3 strictly ships. This is even improved news to us than the progressing discovery of the wireless hotspot feature in iOS 4.3 for iPhones.