Status bar is Landscape, but [[UIApplication sharedApplication] statusBarOrientation] returns portrait

Question

This problem appears to be intermittent, but I am not sure why exactly. When running my application on the device (iPad), I have some code to load a scroll view with some im

Answer 1

Just in case somebody else runs into this, I see a lot of apps that have similar issues in iOS5, actually on iPhone.

It might be a bug in iOS 5 or just an interference with a common behavior...

I use a custom root view controller class (a UITabBarController subclass, no idea whether that matters) and in that class I've overridden "shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation" to only start rotating after my initial screen setup is done (doing otherwise messed some things up).

What I do now is I re-use this class to also set the statusBarOrientation manually to portrait before I allow rotations and to whatever the UI rotates to afterwards.

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarOrientation:toInterfaceOrientation animated:YES];

I believe this could fix THIS issue, too, even if the cause might be unrelated.