iOS7 iPad Landscape only app, using UIImagePickerController

Question

I believe this is a common issue and many answers don\'t work anymore, many just partial, if you are under iOS7 and your iPad app is Landscape only, but you want to use the

Answer 1

Although most answers recommend using .currentContext, I have found out after dismissing the imagepicker, everything was wrong.

On an Landscaped iPad, imho it's best if you would use .formSheet:

let picker = UIImagePickerController()
picker.modalPresentationStyle = .formSheet
picker.sourceType = .photoLibrary
picker.delegate = self
self.present(picker, animated: true)

Answer 2

If your iPad app is landscape only in all conditions, just do these 3 steps :

1) In your app delegate

- (NSUInteger)application:(UIApplication *)application supportedInterfaceOrientationsForWindow:(UIWindow *)window {
    return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAll;
}

2) Create a category header

#import "UIViewController+OrientationFix.h"

@implementation UIViewController (OrientationFix)

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)toInterfaceOrientation {
    return UIInterfaceOrientationIsLandscape(toInterfaceOrientation);
}

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate {
    return YES;
}

- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations {
    return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscape;
}

@end

3) Create a category implementation

#import "UIImagePickerController+OrientationFix.h"

@implementation UIImagePickerController (OrientationFix)

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)toInterfaceOrientation {
    return UIInterfaceOrientationIsLandscape(toInterfaceOrientation);
}

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate {
    return YES;
}

- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations {
    return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscape;
}

@end

Note: You don't need to import these categories anywhere, just enough they are compiled with the project

Note: no need to implement these methods in any VC

Note: no need to change your plist supported orientations

This is tested and working under any conditions

Answer 3

Thanks to Peter Lapisu suggestion above. It doesn't work for me (maybe i'm on iOS 8.3) but i was able to modified it to fixed my orientation issues. My codes are below

In app delegate

- (NSUInteger)application:(UIApplication *)application supportedInterfaceOrientationsForWindow:(UIWindow *)window
{
    return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAll;
}

UIImagePickerController category

@implement UIImagePickerController (extensions)
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate {
    return YES;
}

- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations {
    return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAll;
}

- (UIInterfaceOrientation)preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation {
    return [[UIApplication sharedApplication] statusBarOrientation];
}

@end

UIViewController category

@implementation UIViewController (extensions)

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate {
    return YES;
}

- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations {
    return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAll;
}

@end

Answer 4

I have seen this code from Apple's Sample Code.

UIImagePickerController *imagePickerController = [[UIImagePickerController alloc] init];
imagePickerController.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationCurrentContext;

Due to this UIModalPresentationCurrentContext UIImagePickerController will be opened as per device's current orientation.

Answer 5

Apple's documentation says:

"Important: The UIImagePickerController class supports portrait mode only."

Although, it works fine in landscape for full screen and on iOS 6.

UIImagePickerController class reference

Answer 6

Swift 4 solution

Make sure that when you are having the ViewController embedded in a NavigationViewController to have the fix there. It won't work adding this restriction to the ViewController then...

import UIKit

class MainNavigationViewController: UINavigationController {

    override var shouldAutorotate: Bool {
        return true
    }

    override var supportedInterfaceOrientations: UIInterfaceOrientationMask {
        return .landscape
    }
}

And of course the code mentioned above for the AppDelegate:

func application(_ application: UIApplication, supportedInterfaceOrientationsFor window: UIWindow?) -> UIInterfaceOrientationMask {
    return .all
}

Btw this is only necessary for iOS 10 and below. Apple seems to have fixed it from iOS 11 and above...