I temporarily disabled landscape orientations in my iPhone app while I fixed a problem with an image. Now, for the life of me, I can't get any pages to AutoRotate to either landscape orientation. It worked fine previously. I have all 4 orientations identified in the UISupportedInterfaceOrientations in the info.plist. All 4 orientations are highlighted in the Targets Summary Supported Device Orientations. My implementation files all have:
-(BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
return YES;
}
I'm sure it's something stupid I'm missing, but I can't find it after trying for hours. Any thoughts????
If you are certain that each viewController has
-(BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
return YES;
}
then you may want to try deleting the Build/ directory, selecting clean all targets in the build options, and then relaunching the app. Sometimes this miraculously works. Also, closing and re-opening the simulator and/or Xcode is a common mystery solution for me.
If this doesn't work, then you may want to read through Apple's trouble shooting guide: Why won't my UIViewController rotate with the device?
You may want to clean all targets - the updated plist may not be getting copied into the app bundle. If this is on the device, you may try deleting the app from the device as well.
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I am trying to set up my project with portrait orientation, but I am just getting landscape. I am using cocos2d-x (2.1.4).
I have set, as said here:
At RootViewController.mm:
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
return UIInterfaceOrientationIsPortrait( interfaceOrientation );
}
// For ios6, use supportedInterfaceOrientations & shouldAutorotate instead
- (NSUInteger) supportedInterfaceOrientations{
#ifdef __IPHONE_6_0
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;
#endif
}
I also tried changing the settings, still nothig.
setDeviceOrientation does not exist anymore...
Anyone knows how I can set the project to portrait??
UPDATE: It seems to work on the device, it only happens on the simulator
I do it this way: In xcode at the top of the file list is the project. Go to that, then the "Targets > whatever" bit. You have "supported Interface orientations". You can check off which orientations you want and don't want. Make sure to note that there are 2 different sections for iPhone and iPad, you'll have to scroll down and set it separately in the iPad orientation section.
I'd imagine the reason it doesn't work in the simulator is that you're using an iPhone/iPod for testing and running the iPad simulator.
I am making an iPhone app and I need it to be in portrait mode, so if the user moves the device sideways, it does not automatically rotate. How can I do this?
To disable orientations for a particular View Controller, you should now override supportedInterfaceOrientations and preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation.
- (UIInterfaceOrientationMask)supportedInterfaceOrientations {
// Return a bitmask of supported orientations. If you need more,
// use bitwise or (see the commented return).
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;
// return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait | UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortraitUpsideDown;
}
- (UIInterfaceOrientation)preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation {
// Return the orientation you'd prefer - this is what it launches to. The
// user can still rotate. You don't have to implement this method, in which
// case it launches in the current orientation
return UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait;
}
If you're targeting something older than iOS 6, you want the shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation: method. By changing when it returns yes, you'll determine if it will rotate to said orientation. This will only allow the normal portrait orientation.
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
// Return YES for supported orientations
return (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait);
// Use this to allow upside down as well
//return (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait || interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortraitUpsideDown);
}
Note that shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation: has been deprecated in iOS 6.0.
Xcode 5 and above
Click your project in the Project Navigator in the left sidebar to open the project settings
Go to the General tab.
Uncheck the options you don't want in the Deployment Info section, under Device Orientation
Xcode 4 and below
For those who missed it: you can use the project settings screen to fix orientations throughout the app (no need to override methods in every controller):
It's as simple as toggling the supported interface orientations. You can find by clicking on your Project in the left panel > the app target > Summary tab.
Most simple solution separate for iPhone and iPad (Universal) - its remove unnecessary orientation in the info.plist file or Project -> Info -> Custom iOS Target Properties.
Just add or remove orientation item from list:
Supported interface orientation for iPhone
Supported interface orientations (iPad) for iPad
In Xcode 13.3.1, simply unchecking undesired orientations does not prevent an app from supporting all rotations. It is necessary to enter the Build Settings tab and manually remove any orientations from the following fields that you do not wish to support:
In my case, my app will now only support portrait orientation.
If you want to disable landscape orientation for both iPhone and iPad.
Go to Targets and Go to the General tab. See the below screen and deselect landscape left and landscape right.
Here in this case only iPhone landscape mode will be disabled not for iPad. For iPad all modes are anabled. If you want select device option from Universal to iPad. It will looks like this. See below screen.
Now you need to deselect all modes except Portrait for iPad. See below screenshot.
Now you successfully disabled all modes except Portrait for all devices.
If you created a new Xcode 13.3 project and unchecked unnecessary orientation checkmarks in the Project > General > Deployment and it didn't help. Check the Target > Build Settings - there are 2 rows which override global settings.
Swift 3
If you have a navigationController, subclass it like this (for portrait only):
class CustomNavigationViewController: UINavigationController {
override var supportedInterfaceOrientations: UIInterfaceOrientationMask {
return UIInterfaceOrientationMask.portrait
}
override var preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation: UIInterfaceOrientation {
return UIInterfaceOrientation.portrait
}
}
Removing the method shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation from your class entirely also works. If you don't plan on rotating then it makes no sense to have the method in your class, the less code the better, keeps things clean.
Xcode 8, Xcode 9, Xcode 10 and above
Also, make changes in Info.plist file
I've had the same problem on Xcode 13.0 even though I set the device orientation only Portrait.
Adding these 2 lines to Info.plist solved my problem.
I have a strange problem in an iPhone app I'm developing. I want my app to support ONLY portrait mode, but for some reason I can't do it (device & simulator).
To support only portrait mode I did as follow:
In the TARGET summary section on Xcode, I chose only portrait.
All my ViewControllers implements shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation
But as I said it won't work, and the strange result is that the app support ALL the orientations (portrait, upside down, landscape left, landscape right).
Any ideas?
this how I implement shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
// Return YES for supported orientations
NSLog(#"Checking orientation %d", interfaceOrientation);
return (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait);
}
I notice just now that when I rotate the phone I get this message:
"Two-stage rotation animation is deprecated. This application should
use the smoother single-stage animation."
What does it means?
On the Target Summary choose portrait only.
Go to info.plist file. Right Click open it as source code. And look for this line. For me in iPad its like this:
<key>UISupportedInterfaceOrientations~ipad</key>
Delete all other orientation and keep the only one which you need..Like this :
<array>
<string> UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait </string>
</array>
It is possible to have multiple ViewControllers on the screen. The UITabBarController is itself a UIViewController, and it only passes shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation: requests to the viewControllers within if it chooses. The default implementation does this, but if you subclass it, the code XCode generates (as of iOS 5.1) does not.
check your plist and make sure the key there is set correctly.
Does anyone know of a reason why an iPhone would autorotate on one device, but not another? I can't reproduce it on my iPhone, iPod Touch, or any of the simulator devices.
Are there any device settings I should be paying attention to? The offending iPhone has the same SDK version installed (4.2.1), but is a different model (MC319LL) than mine (MC605DN).
Well, I never figured out why the two phones were acting differently, but this bit of code in in the UITabBarController subclass seems to have solved things:
- (BOOL) shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)toInterfaceOrientation
{
return toInterfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait;
}
You made sure that the misbehaving device had its rotation lock turned off in the settings, right?
I have my iPad application created using the SplitView template.
I wonder what is the best way to restrict my application to landscape mode?
I have tried overriding shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation: method in DetailViewController.m
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
return UIInterfaceOrientationIsLandscape(interfaceOrientation);
}
but 4.2 GM is still buggy and it fails to show the controller view. What other choices do I have?
Thanks in advance.
UPDATE1
I have already filed a bug report:
Bug ID #8620135
My app is almost finished and I have to find a work-arround since I don't think they are going to solve this before 4.2 officially comes out (GM is already out!)
In order to recreate the bug, just use SplitView template and override above method in any of the UIViewControllers (RootViewController or DetailViewControllers)
UPDATE2
I have found a work-around. (See UPDATE3 for the complete work-around)
Set UISupportedInterfaceOrientations only to support Landscape , this will force the app to start in landscape mode allowing DetailViewController to start correctly(hence shown correctly)
<key>UISupportedInterfaceOrientations</key>
<array>
<string>UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft</string>
<string>UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight</string>
</array>
But if you rotate the device, it turns Portrait mode!!!, so is still necessary to override shouldAutorotateToIntercafeOrientation: as above
Discussion:
If this wouldn't be a bug I would expect a warning or execution error, exception or something when starting the app in a orientation that is not supported by the view controller. Besides, why only DetailViewController does not show? If this would be specification, then RootViewController should also fail to load then. Don't you think?
thanks for you help... ;)
UPDATE3
After further tests I have realized that above work-around does not work in some cases. For example when starting the app when the device is in landscape won't work!.
The real problem seems to be that in iOS4.2GM UISplitViewController needs all its controllers have all rotations to be available at its load time. So is necessary to trick him so it loads in Landscape mode and then not allow him to rotate its view controllers.
So here is the new work-around for this annoying iBug.
Step1:
Set Info.plist like so:
<key>UISupportedInterfaceOrientations</key>
<array>
<string>UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft</string>
<string>UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight</string>
</array>
Step2
Set a new flag in DetailViewController.m or .h (from SplitView Template)
BOOL lockRotation = NO; //WORK-ARROUND: Bug ID# 8620135.
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
//WORK-ARROUND: Bug ID# 8620135.
if (lockRotation) {
return UIInterfaceOrientationIsLandscape(interfaceOrientation);
}else{
return YES;
}
}
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
//set NO here since this is called before shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation method is called
lockRotation = NO; //WORK-ARROUND: Bug ID# 8620135.
}
- (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated {
//set YES as soon as possible, but after shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation method was called
lockRotation = YES; //WORK-ARROUND: Bug ID# 8620135.
[super viewDidAppear:animated];
}
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Please note that this bug only appears when the UISplitViewController is loaded and not everytime
the its view appears. Hence, to see this bug make sure the app was terminated before.
I asked a question with a bounty of 500 that seems to be the same thing you're facing.
From my limited experience it is much easier to make a landscape-only iPhone app than a landscape-only iPad app. I'm not sure why there is any difference, but the steps Apple says to take to make it landscape-only do not work on their own.
Try this (it works):
-(BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation(UIInterfaceOrientation)toInterfaceOrientation {
if(toInterfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight)
return YES;
}
else
{
return NO;
}
}
Check out this iPhone app in landscape mode, if you haven't already. I was going to suggest simply adding UISupportedInterfaceOrientations to your Info.plist and specifying the two landscape orientations. But, apparently, this is not sufficient, according to answers to cited question.
I believe this is a BUG, I faced this problem also. It is something to do with
UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft
To replicate this situation:
1) Create a new iPad project using UISplitViewController template
2) Edit info.plist
Supported interface orientations
-Landscape (left home button)
-Landscape (right home button)
3) DetailViewController.m
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
// return YES;
NSLog(#"RotateToInterface:[%d] vs LandscapeLeft[%d]", interfaceOrientation, UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft);
return interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft;
}
4) Run it....You will see a blank black view. and no matter how you turn. "UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft" never detected.
By the way, nacho4d's adding BOOL check work-around is working. Thumbs UP :)