iPad Multitasking support requires these orientations

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I'm trying to submit my universal iOS 9 apps to Apple (built with Xcode 7 GM) but I receive this error message for the bundle in iTunes Connect, just when I select Submit for Review:

Invalid Bundle. iPad Multitasking support requires these orientations: 'UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait,UIInterfaceOrientationPortraitUpsideDown,UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft,UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight'. Found 'UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait,UIInterfaceOrientationPortraitUpsideDown' in bundle 'com.bitscoffee.PhotoMarks.iOS'.

My app has support for Portrait and PortraitUpsideDown orientations but not for the other two.

So is there a workaround for this imposed requirement, or all iOS 9 iPad apps have to have all four orientations?

score 718 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 07 '16 at 06:11

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iPad Multitasking support requires all the orientations but your app does not, so you need to opt out of it, just add the UIRequiresFullScreen key to your Xcode project’s Info.plist file and apply the Boolean value YES.

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answered Sep 14 '15 at 08:34

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Did anyone got rejected because of this setting? (Requires full screen) According to apple only specific apps can use this setting, such as games. – gsach Jan 01 '16 at 11:42
@GeorgeSachpatzidis I did not get rejected with that setting. – Michael Wang Jan 08 '16 at 07:13
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Well, my iPad app happily flew through the Validate option in Xcode, but failed to upload to iTunes Connect (with the error you quoted). So my app never got as far as iTunes ! (Btw, WHY doesn't this error/warning occur earlier in the build process ?!) – Mike Gledhill Jul 28 '16 at 12:28
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Just to add, Xcode 7.3.1 didn't recognise this "UIRequiresFullScreen" setting - BUT - it has now been added as a checkbox under Targets \ General \ Deployment Info. "Requires full screen". – Mike Gledhill Jul 28 '16 at 12:33
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@MikeGledhill, that is a good question, why this error was not identified earlier in the build. That is just stupid to invalidate it at the last step. Publishing on App Store is just a mess, Google Play is way cheaper and cleaner. – Eduardo Sep 13 '16 at 22:57
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@Eduardo: Couldn't agree more. Xcode continues to be a thoroughly horrible development environment (despite Tim Cook praising it and giving away iPads to school kids to get them interested in using it.) I remember learning Turbo Pascal 5.5 at school.... Ahhh, happy days... – Mike Gledhill Sep 14 '16 at 14:27
Thanks. Saved me a lot of trouble. :) – MShah Oct 21 '16 at 13:22
saved me from hanging janging for half more day thanks – Logic Dec 09 '16 at 11:32
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This answer is still helpful now, with Xcode 8. Xcode is surely the worst development tool ever. – Tien Do May 29 '17 at 04:37
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This answer works even in Xcode 9.3 inspite of the Requires Fullscreen checkbox checked in the project target screen. – Parthib Biswas Apr 11 '18 at 05:23
thanks, apple distribution is happiest moment of my life ಠ_ಠ – sensei Apr 24 '18 at 23:21
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And the missing of some resolution app icon, why Xcode just tell me at the first moment :( – StoneLam Jul 18 '18 at 15:39
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Xcode seriously sucks. It's good some things work, like this answer. – Daniel Springer Nov 20 '18 at 23:49
@MikeGledhill is Android Studio better? – zardilior Sep 10 '19 at 22:40
Thanks that was helpful. – mehdigriche Sep 20 '19 at 15:32

BatteryAcid · Answer 2 · 2015-11-24T13:34:41.153

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In Xcode, check the "Requires Full Screen" checkbox under General > Targets, as shown below.

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answered Sep 22 '15 at 23:22

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Why this option is also available for iPhone-only app? What will happen if I checked "Requires full screen" for an iPhonely-only app (not iPad-only or universal app)? – goodbyeera Jan 05 '16 at 05:44
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@goodbyeera, looks like you created a topic for this here: http://stackoverflow.com/q/34608826/1956540 – BatteryAcid Jan 05 '16 at 14:12
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I had to check this box and added a couple of icon images for the iPad. Then upload to App Store was successful. – Jervisbay May 15 '16 at 09:31
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Thanks for images ! – realtebo Apr 17 '18 at 08:11
In Xcode 12.1 I would just add, that after you've added "Requires Full Screen" make sure you still have both iPhone and iPad checkboxes ticked under General / Deployment info (provided your app supported both before). Otherwise you will get this error when archiving: "This bundle does not support one or more of the devices supported by the previous app version. Your app update must continue to support all devices previously supported." See this link for more info: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19925245/ios7-error-when-submitting-an-update-this-bundle-does-not-support-one-or-more-d – Zenman C Dec 10 '20 at 06:02

score 57 · Answer 3 · edited Jan 12 '17 at 14:41

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I am using Xamarin and there is no available option in the UI to specify "Requires full screen". I, therefore, had to follow @Michael Wang's answer with a slight modification. Here goes:

Open the info.plist file in a text editor and add the lines:

<key>UIRequiresFullScreen</key>
<true/>

I tried setting the value to "YES" but it didn't work, which was kind of expected.

In case you are wondering, I placed the above lines below the UISupportedInterfaceOrientations section

<key>UISupportedInterfaceOrientations~ipad</key>
<array>
    <string>UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait</string>
    <string>UIInterfaceOrientationPortraitUpsideDown</string>
</array>

Hope this helps someone. Credit to Michael.

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I am using Telerik's VS plugin, so this helped me, thank you. – xinthose Nov 16 '15 at 22:30
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This is now supported in Xamarin – Francesco Apr 29 '16 at 15:24

score 39 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 14 '15 at 10:08

as Michael said,

Check the "Requires full screen" of the target of xcodeproj, if you don't need to support multitasking.

or Check the following device orientations

Portrait
Upside Down
Landscape Left
Landscape Right

In this case, we need to support launch storyboard.

score 9 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 18 '16 at 05:23

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Unchecked all Device orientation and checked only "Requires full screen". Its working properly

answered Feb 18 '16 at 05:23

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Thank you so much..It is worked for me..It is very easy to understand. – Jagat Dave Apr 30 '16 at 09:35

score 6 · Answer 6 · answered Oct 28 '15 at 14:02

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Go to your project target in Xcode > General > Set "Requires full screen" (under Hide status bar) to true.

answered Oct 28 '15 at 14:02

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score 4 · Answer 7 · answered Mar 30 '16 at 03:28

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As Michael said check the "Requires Full Screen" checkbox under General > Targets

and also delete the 'CFBundleIcons-ipad' from the info.plst

This worked for me

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered May 09 '19 at 07:26

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You need to add Portrait (top home button) on the supported interface orientation field of info.plist file in xcode

answered May 09 '19 at 07:26

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If you remove the two landscape modes (item 2 and item 3) in your supported interface orientations do you not get the same error as OP in the review process? At least that's what I got when I tried. – Morten May 09 '19 at 07:57

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