at the moment i have developed an ios tab bar application the rotates perfectly on the iphone simulator(ios 6.1). The problem is that when i run the app on my real device (ios 4.3), the app works perfectly but it doesn't rotate.
Has anyone got any ideas? Is it possible to support rotation for all three o.s's: ios4, ios5 and ios6?
Prior to iOS 6 i.e in iOS 5 and earlier, an app and a view controller’s default supported interface orientations are set to UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait for iPhone idiom & UIInterfaceOrientationLandscape for iPad idiom while in iOS 6 and later this is UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAll for the iPad idiom and UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAllButUpsideDown for the iPhone idiom.
This might be the reason for your views not rotating in < iOS 6.0. Rotation process and responsible controllers are also different in the 2. Autorotation is clearly explained here in this post- Autorotation in iOS
UIViewControllerreference docs for details. – rmaddy(BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation{ return YES; }to all of my .m files and now everything is working correctly.Thank you very much. – puntotuning