Launching into portrait-orientation from an iPhone 6 Plus home screen in landscape orientation results in wrong orientation

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The actual title for this question is longer than I can possibly fit:

Launching an app whose root view controller only supports portrait-orientation but which otherw

Answer 1

For myself, I was having the same issue as jaredsinclair, but subclassing a UIViewController with the supportedInterfaceOrientations method was not solving the issue. Instead I did exactly what he did in my appDidFinishLaunching method of my AppDelegate and added my UITabBarController as a child to a normal UIViewController rather than his subclass and it worked!