I start my app in landscape for iPad. A nav controller holds my tableVC I click on a cell we push a new VC onto the stack. That works fine. The problem is, when I press the standard “back” button on the nav controller, my app gets forced into portrait and my tableVC is off of the screen. I am doing no manual positioning of views. This doesn’t happen if I start the app in portrait mode.
How do I fix this abnormal behavior?
Notes: There is also a tab bar present in the app if it matters.
Upon further testing, if I load the NavController in portrait (with the first view being the table view) then switch it to landscape, then select the cell, then press back, it works fine. So the problem only happens if i start the app in landscape and never turn it to portrait.
EVERY VC has shouldAutoRotate set to return YES. I have subclassed the tab bar and done the same. I am wondering if this is a bug. Perhaps the problem lies in the fact that I took existing .XIB files and their views that were created for iPhone, then copied and pasted them, then deleted the iPhone specific views and then added iPad views.
Maybe you can create a new and simple iPad application with just a tabbarcontroller a navigation controller and 2 viewcontrollers to test if the cause is or is not the recycled iPhone .XIB files.
Also you can Command+Shift+F to search in the whole project for “: UIViewController” to double check that every VC has shouldAutoRotate set to return YES, in case you have third party code in your application that has a subclass of UIViewController on it. (the search will return a list of headers files that inherits from UIViewController).
I had had similar problems with really weird behaviors that were fixed by deleting the .XIB file and made it again.
Good luck finding the problem =)