Landscape Apps Xcode 5 / iOS 7

Question

I have a piano app in the App Store. It works in landscape mode.

Now iOS 7 appears to be ignoring the Landscape setting in IB

The app works as expected in iOS 6 and below, in landscape. In iOS 7 appears in portrait. Here are settings and relevant code:

//iOS 6+
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
    return YES;
}

//iOS 6+
- (NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
    return (UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscapeLeft | UIInterfaceOrientationMaskLandscapeRight);
}
//iOS 5.1.1-
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
        return (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft || interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight);
}

Hamartia

What type of VC is your root VC for your application? – Uncle

@Uncle UINavigationController – Hamartia

Note that the "simulated metrics" controls you point out in your screenshot only affect the view's appearance in that Interface Builder editor. (That's why it says "simulated".) The IB editor manages only the view itself -- at run time, things like status bar, orientation, and navigation bars are managed outside of the view (by view controllers or the app delegate). Since those things aren't present in the xib you're editing, the "simulated metrics" are there to let you edit the view as you expect it to appear at run time. – Friendship

Answer 1

Thanks to @shawnwall comment I realised I didn't have a Root View Controller. In the past my app given support yo iOS 3.1.3 O_O:

[self.window addSubview:self.viewController.view];

I dropped 3.1.3 support a long time ago, so I can set up a root view controller:

self.window.rootViewController = self.viewController;

That was the thing that caused the visual bug.

Hamartia