How to Programmatically Set Device Orientation in iOS 7

How to set device (UI) orientation programmatically?

That method is called to determine whether your interface should automatically rotate to a given rotation (i.e letting UIKit do the hard work, rather than you doing it manually).

So if you wanted your app to only work in landscape you'd implement the body of that method with:


return UIInterfaceOrientationIsLandscape(interfaceOrientation);


If you wanted your UI to auto rotate to all orientations you could just

return YES;


Is that what you were asking?

How to change Device Orientation programmatically in Swift?

For each VC declare this variable w/ desired orientation. This is for portrait.

override var supportedInterfaceOrientations: UIInterfaceOrientationMask { return .portrait }   

Then on appearance enforce the desired orientation.

override func viewDidAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
  super.viewDidAppear(animated)
  UIView.setAnimationsEnabled(false)
  UIDevice.current.setValue(UIInterfaceOrientation.portrait.rawValue, forKey: "orientation")
  UIView.setAnimationsEnabled(true)
}

Setting device orientation in Swift iOS

You can paste these methods in the ViewController of each view that needs to be portrait:

override func shouldAutorotate() -> Bool {
    return false
}

override func supportedInterfaceOrientations() -> UIInterfaceOrientationMask {
    return UIInterfaceOrientationMask.Portrait
}

programmatically setting orientation in viewdidload is not working

[[UIDevice currentDevice] setOrientation:UIDeviceOrientationPortrait];

This method is deprecated. You cannot use this method anymore.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/12813644/1405008

Above link gives detail on how to provide portrait only mode for UIViewController.

If you pushed into NavigationViewController then try this.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/16152506/1405008

How to update the UI when the device orientation changed in Swift?

Actually by using

loginView.frame = CGRect(origin: .zero, size: view.bounds.size)

you assign a frame to your login view which will not change on device rotation.

you might wanna use a constraint approach here as well:

// try replacing
// loginView.frame = CGRect(origin: .zero, size: view.bounds.size)

// with
 loginView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
 NSLayoutConstraint.activate([
    loginView.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.leadingAnchor),
    loginView.trailingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.trailingAnchor),
    loginView.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.topAnchor),
    loginView.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.bottomAnchor)
 ])

Another approach would be updating the frame of your login view e.g.

override func traitCollectionDidChange(_ previousTraitCollection: UITraitCollection?) {
   super.traitCollectionDidChange(previousTraitCollection)
   loginView.frame = CGRect(origin: .zero, size: view.bounds.size)
}

Last but not least you can use autoresizingMask in viewDidLoad

loginView.frame = CGRect(origin: .zero, size: view.bounds.size)
loginView.autoresizingMask = [.flexibleHeight, .flexibleWidth]

P.S. My previous comment was misleading since the login frame wasn't set in the setupStackView() function

and my final comment:

// you can replace
loginView.frame = CGRect(origin: .zero, size: view.bounds.size)
// with
loginView.frame = view.bounds

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