iOS 6 Rotation issue - No rotation from Presented Modal View Controller

Question

I have a MainViewController which has a button which pushes a new view (InfoViewController), via flip horizontailly. like so:

controller.modalTransitionStyle = UIModalTransitionStyleFlipHorizontal;
[self presentModalViewController:controller animated:YES];

The MainView Controller supports Portrait and PortraitUpsideDown. Like so:

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate {
    return YES;    
}

- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations {    
    return (UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait | 
            UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortraitUpsideDown);
}

In my InfoViewController it also states the above code. In my AppDelegate it has this in the LaunchOptions:

[self.window setRootViewController:self.mainViewController];

In my app.plist file it supports all orientations. This is because other views need to support landscape as well. So On my MainViewController and InfoViewController I need only Portrait and PortraitUpsideDown. But on another view I need all orintations.

My MainViewController works fine, but my InfoViewController is working for all orientations.

I am having extreme diffulty trying to get this to work in iOS6. I have researched other posts and tried the assistance other people have provided, but had no luck whatsoever. Please can someone help me acheive this thank you. And I'm a Objective-C newbie :p

Answer 1

Don´t support all orientations in your app plist file, only those that your root view controller supports.

Autorotation is changing in iOS 6. In iOS 6, the shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation: method of UIViewController is deprecated. In its place, you should use the supportedInterfaceOrientationsForWindow: and shouldAutorotate methods:

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate {
    return YES;
}

- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations {
    return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAllButUpsideDown;    
}

Modal ViewControllers no longer get rotation calls in iOS 6: The willRotateToInterfaceOrientation:duration:, willAnimateRotationToInterfaceOrientation:duration:, and didRotateFromInterfaceOrientation: methods are no longer called on any view controller that makes a full-screen presentation over itself—for example those that are called with: presentViewController:animated:completion:.

You can let the view controller that presents your modal view controller inform it of rotation. Also, now you use: presentViewController:animated:completion: to present the view controller. presentModalViewController:animated: is deprecated which you use in the code.