Why splitViewController:collapseSecondaryViewController:ontoPrimaryViewController: is not called on iPhone 6 Plus?

Question

I implemented subclass of UISplitViewController in my app for both: iPhone and iPad. Method mentioned in title is called when I rotate device from Landscape to Portrait orientation. It works really nice unless I run the app on iPhone 6 Plus. Why this method is not called there?

What to do to make this method work?

When I start the app on iPhone 6 Plus everything is fine in both orientations. But the problem is when I rotate iPhone 6 Plus from Landscape to Portrait. My navigation controller is not gonna work as it is expected.

This is what I mean:

iPhone 5s Portrait
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iPhone 5s Portrait when I select location

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iPhone 5s Landscape with selected location

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iPhone 5s when I rotate from Landscape to Portrait

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iPhone 6 Plus Portrait

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iPhone 6 Plus Portrait when I select location

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iPhone 6 Plus Landscape with selected location

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iPhone 6 Plus when I rotate from Landscape to Portrait this is a problem because my method splitViewController:collapseSecondaryViewController:ontoPrimaryViewController: is not called. UINavigationController at that time is not working. When I select location nothing happens.

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class PBOSplitViewController: UISplitViewController, UISplitViewControllerDelegate {
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        preferredDisplayMode = UISplitViewControllerDisplayMode.AllVisible
        delegate = self
    }

    func splitViewController(splitViewController: UISplitViewController, collapseSecondaryViewController secondaryViewController: UIViewController!, ontoPrimaryViewController primaryViewController: UIViewController!) -> Bool {
        return false
    }
}

I setup my SplitViewController in Storyboard.

I tried to force splitViewController to call this method, but it didn't help — Bartłomiej Semańczyk

Nikola Lajic Nikola Lajic · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-21T09:16:04

iPhone 6+ has a larger screen and in some ways is treated like an iPad. A split view controller on an iPhone 6+ will try to display both master and detail panes similarly as on an iPad, unless the application is in "Zoomed Display Mode".

NSHipster has an article explaining this in greater detail: http://nshipster.com/uisplitviewcontroller/

Why splitViewController:collapseSecondaryViewController:ontoPrimaryViewController: is not called on iPhone 6 Plus?

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