iOS 8: Autorotation is not working without storyboard

Question

So I am trying to start a project w/o Storyboards and I can\'t seem to figure out why the UIWindow is not passing autorotation commands to the root view controller. With st

Answer 1

Make sure you enable the device orientations in the project's General settings

in xcode 6.1, click your main project folder, General tab

Scroll down to Device Orientation, enable "Portrait", "Landscape Left", "Landscape Right"

See iOS 8.1 auto rotation for a picture of the Device Orientation settings