Question

As the title says. My UIViewController will not rotate no matter what. When it loads shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation is being called but after that it doesnt.

UPDATE 1:

It’s a really really wierd problem. At least for me. And i ll try to explain everything.

It’s a navigation based app. Every controller has

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation{
    return YES; 
}

Xcontroller is a child of Acontroller and it doesn’t auto rotate. If Xcontroller become a child of Bcontroller then it will autorotate. So something is wrong with Acontroller. But Acontroller is identical (except its data) to Bcontroller.

Whats Wrong?

UPDATE 2:

I decided to recreate Acontroller. And it worked.I believe I was missing something stupid.

Answer 1

I am not sure whether it’s the same reason as your case. But I experienced the same thing. the shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation was only called once in the beginning.
After some serious debugging by taking code apart, I found that the reason is in my overridden init method.
I had this before:

- (id)initWithAlbum:(PhotoAlbum *)theAlbum {
    if (self) {     
        self.photoAlbum = theAlbum;     
    }
    return self;
}

And then I changed to this

- (id)initWithAlbum:(PhotoAlbum *)theAlbum {
    if (self = [super init]) {      
        self.photoAlbum = theAlbum;     
    }
    return self;
}

Note: the only difference is I added [super init] to call the parent init.
After this change, the rotation works well and the shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation is being called everytime I rotate the screen.
Hope this help.