Hello everyone,
I have an app that is used in the education sector for high stakes assessment testing. I reviewed a lot of the WWDC2025 information in June, however, it seems we missed something critical in the What's new in UIKIt presentation. That would be the deprecation of UIRequiresFullScreen.
We currently use this in our app and have been using it since iOS/iPad OS 9 when our app was written. The deprecation of this property has caused some major issues in our layout. Keep in mind we are a hybrid app so our mobile app is self-hosting a fullscreen version of WKWebView under the hood. This is common across assessment developers in the education sector.
I removed the property and went through the migration guide (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/technotes/tn3192-migrating-your-app-from-the-deprecated-uirequiresfullscreen-key) and it doesn't appear to be straight forward on how to lock the orientation in landscape. I tried several different approaches:
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Requesting the screen orientation lock we had issues where if a user launched it in portrait it would be locked to portrait but we would want to update the display to shift it to landscape as a business requirement supporting both landscape right and landscape left.
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We also tried overriding the method supportedInterfaceOrientations and utilizing the .landscape enum with no success. It fires just fine but nothing takes effect.
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Backwards compatibility support there is no guidance on backwards compatibility support and Xcode wants us to do an availability check when using some of the new methods for updating geometry. What is the guidance in this case because we support back to iPadOS 16.0 as a business requirement.
Can anyone give us some insight as we are current trying to get ahead of this while 26.3 is still in beta as this would affect our customers deeply because of the UI jank we get as a result of this deprecation.