Using UIImagePickerController in landscape orientation

Question

I am creating an app which is in landscape mode and I am using UIImagePickerController to take photos using iPhone camera in it and I want to create it in lands

Answer 1

This works great with Swift 4.0 in iOS 10/11.

import UIKit

extension UIImagePickerController {
    override open var supportedInterfaceOrientations: UIInterfaceOrientationMask {
        return .all
    }
}

Just drop the extension somewhere in your project, no need to subclass anything for it to work.

If you do need to specify device types, you can add a check like this:

import UIKit

extension UIImagePickerController {
    override open var supportedInterfaceOrientations: UIInterfaceOrientationMask {
        return UIDevice.current.userInterfaceIdiom == .phone ? .portrait : .all
    }
}

This will allow an iPad to freely rotate, but enforces portrait mode on a phone. Just make sure that your app is configured to support these in its info.plist, otherwise you may encounter crashes upon launching the picker.