After coming back from a holiday in Cairns (where I had forgotten to pack my earphones and putting a dampener on my ability to listen to my podcasts) I updated my iPad to iOS 4.2.1 to finally access features that had been available on the iPhone for months – primarily the folders feature so I could collapse my seven screens of apps down to two screens.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I was rather perplexed when I went to the gym to find that none of my video podcasts would play in the background any more. The best I could manage was to have the video podcast playing with the screen off which was achieved by doing the following:<\/p>\n
However, getting on the treadmill or\u00a0cross trainer\u00a0for twenty or thirty minutes with just audio and a blank screen kinda defeats the purpose of taking an iPad to the gym. I very much like to browse websites while listening into the podcast as well as checking my email and even getting into a bit of Words With Friends<\/a>. Otherwise, I’ll flick back to the video if nothing takes my fancy.<\/p>\n Usually, the way background video playback would work as follows (under iOS 3.2):<\/p>\n For me, this is a real inconvenience and, had I known about this bug beforehand, I probably would have waited a bit longer for the issue to be resolved.<\/p>\n Anyway, if you want to provide Apple with feedback to reinstate this feature you can head on over to the Apple iPad feedback page<\/a> to file a bug report. The more people that raise this with Apple the better!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After coming back from a holiday in Cairns (where I had forgotten to pack my earphones and putting a dampener on my ability to listen to my podcasts) I updated my iPad to iOS 4.2.1 to finally access features that had been available on the iPhone for months – primarily the folders feature so I … <\/p>\n\n