How to lock the orientation of a specific View Controller to Portrait mode?

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I hope you are well!

I am working on a Swift 2 app using Xcode FOR iOS 9! and I would like the whole app to rotate on both directions expect a particular view controller that I want to be locked to portrait even when the user rotates. I tried for hours and looked a lot online and nothing worked. Any help? UPDATE: I tried the two methods below but it doesn't work for iOS 9 :( Please help

Best, Anas

Possible duplicate of [How to force view controller orientation in iOS 8?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26357162/how-to-force-view-controller-orientation-in-ios-8) — Vishnu gondlekar, Feb 08 '16 at 07:14
Please check the http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28938660/how-to-lock-orientation-of-one-view-controller-to-portrait-mode-only-in-swift which help you. — Ramkrishna Sharma, Feb 08 '16 at 11:16

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 03 '16 at 05:44

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Objective C :

NSNumber *orientationValue = [NSNumber numberWithInt:UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait];
[[UIDevice currentDevice] setValue:orientationValue forKey:@"orientation"];

Swift :

let orientationValue = UIInterfaceOrientation.Portrait.rawValue
UIDevice.currentDevice().setValue(orientationValue, forKey: "orientation")

edited Dec 03 '16 at 05:44

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answered Feb 08 '16 at 07:28

Kemo

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Thanks, Kemo! But it's not working for me, where do I put the code? I tried this: override func viewDidAppear(animated: Bool) { super.viewDidAppear(animated) let value = UIInterfaceOrientation.Portrait.rawValue UIDevice.currentDevice().setValue(value, forKey: "orientation") shouldAutorotate() } – anasganim Feb 08 '16 at 08:44
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Just remove shouldAutorotate() and try override func viewDidAppear(animated: Bool) { super.viewDidAppear(animated) let value = UIInterfaceOrientation.Portrait.rawValue UIDevice.currentDevice().setValue(value, forKey: "orientation") } – Kemo Feb 08 '16 at 11:25
This is a poor answer to current syntax for Swift4, no explanation and this doesnt work as @matt.writes.code has pointed out – Julian Silvestri Dec 31 '18 at 16:07

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 08 '16 at 07:36

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    override func supportedInterfaceOrientations() -> UIInterfaceOrientationMask {
    return UIInterfaceOrientationMask.Portrait
}

answered Feb 08 '16 at 07:36

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 08 '16 at 09:09

Try with this:

 override func shouldAutorotate() -> Bool {
    return onlyPortarit()
 }

 override func supportedInterfaceOrientations() -> UIInterfaceOrientationMask {
    return UIInterfaceOrientationMask.Portrait
 }

 func onlyPortarit() -> Bool{
    if(UIDevice.currentDevice().orientation == UIDeviceOrientation.Portrait ||
        UIDevice.currentDevice().orientation == UIDeviceOrientation.PortraitUpsideDown ||
        UIDevice.currentDevice().orientation == UIDeviceOrientation.Unknown){
            return true
    }else{
        return false
    }
 }

score 1 · Answer 4 · edited May 30 '17 at 18:17

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In addition to Manuel's response. Add the following in viewDidLoad()

UIDevice.current.setValue(UIInterfaceOrientation.portrait.rawValue, forKey: "orientation")

This will initialize ViewController in portrait regardless of the device orientation.

edited May 30 '17 at 18:17

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answered May 30 '17 at 18:07

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How to lock the orientation of a specific View Controller to Portrait mode?

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