Launching into portrait-orientation from an iPhone 6 Plus home screen in landscape orientation results in wrong orientation

Question

The actual title for this question is longer than I can possibly fit:

Launching an app whose root view controller only supports portrait-orientation but which otherw

Answer 1

This appears to be a bug in iOS 8 when using a UITabBarController as a root view controller. A workaround is to use a mostly vanilla UIViewController as the root view controller. This vanilla view controller will serve as the parent view controller of your tab bar controller:

///------------------------
/// Portrait-Only Container
///------------------------

@interface PortraitOnlyContainerViewController : UIViewController

@end

@implementation PortraitOnlyContainerViewController

- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations {
    return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;
}

@end

// Elsewhere, in app did finish launching ...

PortraitOnlyContainerViewController *container = nil;

container = [[PortraitOnlyContainerViewController alloc] 
              initWithNibName:nil 
              bundle:nil];

[container addChildViewController:self.tabBarController];
self.tabBarController.view.frame = container.view.bounds;
[container.view addSubview:self.tabBarController.view];
[self.tabBarController didMoveToParentViewController:container];

[self.window setRootViewController:container];