Force iOS view to not rotate, while still allowing child to rotate

Question

I have a view controller with a child view controller.

tab bar controller
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nav controller
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UIPageViewController (should rotate)
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Answer 1

Short answer: No, all visible controllers and views rotate (or don't rotate) together.

Long answer:

First, you must implement autorotate decision functions in the root controller; that may mean making a nav controller subclass.

You can hack your desired behavior by having the parent view autorotate -- but have it manually rotate itself back to appear un-rotated.

Or, you can NOT autorotate, but listen for notifications that the physical device rotated, and manually rotate whatever views you want to, eg: Replicate camera app rotation to landscape IOS 6 iPhone

Also see, fyi:

How to force a UIViewController to Portrait orientation in iOS 6

shouldAutoRotate Method Not Called in iOS6

iOS6: supportedInterfaceOrientations not working (is invoked but the interface still rotates)

How to implement UIViewController rotation in response to orientation changes?