setStatusBarOrientation:animated: not working in iOS 6

Question

I\'ve used this code to force an orientation change back to portrait when the user is finished watching the video (it allows viewing in landscape mode), before popping the v

Answer 1

setStatusBarOrientation method has changed behaviour a bit. According to Apple documentation:

The setStatusBarOrientation:animated: method is not deprecated outright. It now works only if the supportedInterfaceOrientations method of the top-most full-screen view controller returns 0

Answer 2

Your root view controller should answer false to the method shouldAutorotate in order that your app responds to setStatusBarOrientation:animated

From Apple Documentation: "if your application has rotatable window content, however, you should not arbitrarily set status-bar orientation using this method"

To understand that, put a breakpoint in the shouldAutorotate method and you will see that it is called juste after setting the status bar orientation.

Answer 3

Here is how I fixed.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/14530123/1901733

The current question is linked with the question from the url above.

The statusBarOrientation is a real problem in ios6.