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 UIImagePickerController with source UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLibrary or UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera.

How to set it right, so it's working 100%? And you don't get mixed orientations and avoid the error "Supported orientations has no common orientation with the application, and shouldAutorotate returns YES".

Peter Lapisu · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-11T08:57:26.370

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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

edited May 11 '15 at 08:57

answered Dec 09 '13 at 10:31

Peter Lapisu

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What about if the App isn't landscape only? – Collin Jan 31 '14 at 03:12
than it should be no problem, as the app support any orientation anyway – Peter Lapisu Feb 01 '14 at 14:33
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You're not supposed to override a class's methods in a category. Which method actually gets used is technically undefined, even if it always seems to work. Apple could change something that would break it at a future point in time. – Gavin Feb 17 '14 at 22:31
"Which method actually gets used is technically undefined" thats not true – Peter Lapisu Feb 17 '14 at 23:53
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I have implemented all the things as discussed above but the thing is that my camera is rotated 90 degree and comes in half the screen when i switch to landscape orientation !! – Parvez Belim Mar 06 '14 at 10:13
than you did smth. wrong. or smth. else is changing the bahaviour (note this is tested for iOS7) – Peter Lapisu Mar 06 '14 at 12:57
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@ParvezBelim is right. Camera showing 90 Degree rotated. – Vaibhav Saran Apr 08 '14 at 09:45
than you did smth. wrong. or smth. else is changing the bahaviour (note this is tested for iOS7) – – Peter Lapisu Apr 10 '14 at 10:09
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That worked for me like a charm. Thank u so much buddy. I was searching from couple of days.You saved my lots of time. Thanks again. – Manthan May 21 '14 at 06:00
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**IT WORKS IF YOU FOLLOW STEPS PROPERLY.** – rohan-patel Jun 04 '14 at 18:18
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Will this pass appstore? – Goran Jakovljevic Jun 25 '14 at 14:50
I followed the steps exactly and I can't get it to work in IOS7, has anyone gotten it working there? – Scott Rowley Jun 25 '14 at 16:48
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@ScottRowley 1) copy/paste method to app delegate 2) file -> new -> file -> objective-c category -> (Category) OrientationFix (Category on) UIViewController 3) file -> new -> file -> objective-c category -> (Category) OrientationFix (Category on) UIImagePickerController – Goran Jakovljevic Jun 26 '14 at 08:20
That's exactly what I did :( – Scott Rowley Jun 26 '14 at 18:31
@ScottRowley works for me on iOS7, for camera + photo album both. – Johnny Rockex Jul 04 '14 at 11:34
This works on iOS7, we must implement in both UIViewController and UIImagePickerController – onmyway133 Jul 21 '14 at 04:18
@Collin, this works great. Just a question. I replaced first with an plist setting (or setting in Target - General - Device Orientation), but that does not works, why? – LiangWang Jul 27 '14 at 23:41
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The Perfect solution Peter...Thank you very much..!@!! – Shankar Aware Nov 26 '14 at 06:34
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This works on both iPhone and iPad, with iOS7 and iOS8. I have implemented it into my project. Perfect. – LiangWang Jan 10 '15 at 23:59
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This does not work on iOS 8.1.2. Have created a test project following the steps above here for anyone to try: https://github.com/ricsantos/image-picker-test – Ric Santos Feb 12 '15 at 00:58
It Shows me This error. Warning: Attempt to present on which is already presenting Please help me – Maulik Vekariya Feb 23 '15 at 09:17
probably you have some other modal presented? – Peter Lapisu Feb 24 '15 at 12:28
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Didn't need step 3 in iOS 8.4 – elsurudo Jul 24 '15 at 08:30
Worked fine in iOS 8.4. Didn't need step 3. – Héctor Sep 10 '15 at 23:36
Hi @PeterLapisu Code is working for me but Portrait mode is getting enabled by this. I have game and i dont want to enable portrait mode in any situation. Any idea? – smit patel Dec 17 '15 at 12:28
@smitpatel this shouldn't happen, looks like you have maybe some other problem there? – Peter Lapisu Dec 20 '15 at 23:35
this is the only route that worked for me with Xamarin.iOS – tarrball Aug 05 '16 at 19:25

score 41 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 03 '15 at 11:40

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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.

edited Nov 03 '15 at 11:40

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answered Apr 17 '15 at 05:22

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This is the best answer. Using categories is a hack. This works with photo, video and library source type. Tested with iOS8.3. – Florian L. May 12 '15 at 11:51
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This answer is more beautiful than any that I've seen. – Rstew Jul 15 '15 at 22:31
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iOS 8.4: Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'UIApplicationInvalidInterfaceOrientation', reason: 'Supported orientations has no common orientation with the application, and [PUUIAlbumListViewController shouldAutorotate] is returning YES' – elsurudo Jul 24 '15 at 07:59
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Work like charm on iOS 8.4. – Chinthaka Jul 28 '15 at 03:29
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Works on iOS 8.4.1. We should vote more her and ask this to be marked as the correct answer. – Totoro Sep 10 '15 at 21:23
IOS 9 Works! This is the correct answer. Also for Swift code: imagePicker.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationStyle.CurrentContext – Rob van den Berg Sep 26 '15 at 12:13
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Elsurudo, please note that you still need to tick Device Orientation Portrait to prevent the crash. – Rob van den Berg Sep 26 '15 at 12:21
This didn't work for me. But imagePicker.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationOverFullScreen; did. – l-l Feb 26 '16 at 15:16
This didn't work for me either on iOS 9.2 — it doesn't avoid the crash if unless you tick Portrait in your app's orientation settings. – fatuhoku Mar 18 '16 at 09:21
It can present vc on iPad pro.But the displayed exception. – frank Sep 26 '16 at 06:17
imagePickerController.modalPresentationStyle = .currentContext ... worked perfect for me in iOS10.3 & Swift3.0 – crosscode Jun 18 '17 at 08:57

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 31 '14 at 15:46

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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

answered Jan 31 '14 at 15:46

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered May 11 '15 at 04:07

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

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 19 '17 at 09:59

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)

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Nov 12 '18 at 08:18

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...

iOS7 iPad Landscape only app, using UIImagePickerController

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