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docs(screen-orientation): fix iOS orientation snippet for UIScene #2597

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docs(screen-orientation): fix iOS orientation snippet for UIScene
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Update screen-orientation/README.md
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Expand Up @@ -16,10 +16,25 @@ For also lock presented View Controllers, this code can be added to the app's `A

```swift
func application(_ application: UIApplication, supportedInterfaceOrientationsFor window: UIWindow?) -> UIInterfaceOrientationMask {
return UIInterfaceOrientationMask(rawValue: (self.window!.rootViewController as! CAPBridgeViewController).supportedInterfaceOrientations.rawValue)
guard let bridgeViewController = window?.rootViewController as? CAPBridgeViewController else {
return .all
}
return bridgeViewController.supportedInterfaceOrientations
}
```

> **Warning**
>
> If your app already has an earlier version of this snippet, update it. Capacitor 8.5 and later adopt the UIScene lifecycle, in which the window is owned by `SceneDelegate`, so `self.window` on the `AppDelegate` is always `nil` and the previous snippet crashes on launch. Read the root view controller from the `window` passed into the method instead:
>
> ```diff
> - return UIInterfaceOrientationMask(rawValue: (self.window!.rootViewController as! CAPBridgeViewController).supportedInterfaceOrientations.rawValue)
> + guard let bridgeViewController = window?.rootViewController as? CAPBridgeViewController else {
> + return .all
> + }
> + return bridgeViewController.supportedInterfaceOrientations
> ```
### iPad Orientation Lock
By default, an iPad allows Multitasking and its orientation cannot be locked. If you need to lock orientation on an iPad set the option `Requires Full Screen` to `YES` by adding the following to `Info.plist`:
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