Allow video on landscape with only-portrait app

Question

I have a UIWebView included in a UIViewController which is a descendant of UINavigationController. It looks like this:

Answer 1

I encountered exactly the same issue and used the same code as @entropid did. However the accepted solution did not work for me.

It took me hours to come up with the following one-line fix that made things working for me:

- (void)viewWillLayoutSubviews {
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:NO withAnimation:UIStatusBarAnimationNone];
}