Ipad Simulator not auto rotating

Question

I have an an iphone app and am using shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation to determine when to autorotate. On the iphone, I specify that UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait is the only allowed orientation; On the iPad, I just return YES (ie all allowed), like so:

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation 
{
 if (UI_USER_INTERFACE_IDIOM() == UIUserInterfaceIdiomPad) //also tried using [[UIDevice currentDevice] userInterfaceIdiom] to no avail
  return YES; //doesn't get here
 return (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait);
}

This is in every view controller of the tab bar. When I NSLog() the [[UIDevice currentDevice] userInterfaceIdiom], it returns 0 (or UIUserInterfaceIdiomPhone).

Does the iPad simulator always return UIUserInterfaceIdiomPhone?

possible duplicate of [Does UI_USER_INTERFACE_IDIOM work with Targeted Device Family](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3167740/does-ui-user-interface-idiom-work-with-targeted-device-family) — Kristopher Johnson, Sep 03 '10 at 17:04
Here is my answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12565693/xcode-4-5-ios-6-0-simulator-orientation-not-working/12568678#12568678 — gjpc, Sep 24 '12 at 17:50

score -1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

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I think your answer is here: Does UI_USER_INTERFACE_IDIOM work with Targeted Device Family

edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

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answered Sep 03 '10 at 17:03

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Thanks for the link - several searches didn't find it. – Felixs Sep 04 '10 at 14:30

Ipad Simulator not auto rotating

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