iOS6: supportedInterfaceOrientations not working (is invoked but the interface still rotates)

Question

In my app I have multiple views, some views need to support both portrait and landscape, while other views need to support portrait only. Thus, in the project summary, I ha

Answer 1

If your are using a UINavigationController as the root window controller, it will be its shouldAutorotate & supportedInterfaceOrientations which would be called.

Idem if you are using a UITabBarController, and so on.

So the thing to do is to subclass your navigation/tabbar controller and override its shouldAutorotate & supportedInterfaceOrientations methods.