How to check in which position (landscape or portrait) is the iPhone now?

Question

I have an app with a tab bar, and nav controllers in each tab. When user shakes the device, a UIImageView appears as a child view in the nav controller. But the

Answer 1

Try this:

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] statusBarOrientation]

Or in Swift 3:

UIApplication.shared.statusBarOrientation

To specifically check for a particular orientation you can also try the isLandscape or isPortrait property like so:

UIApplication.shared.statusBarOrientation.isLandscape

The problem with [[UIDevice currentDevice] orientation] is that it will also return UIInterfaceOrientationUnknown which statusBarOrientation does not.

There is also a UIViewController property interfaceOrientation but it was deprecated in iOS 8, so it's not recommended.

You check documentation for statusBarOrientation here