It is, but similarly we now prefer you use a launch storyboard – so it can look 
just like your welcome screen (at least to the point that you can describe that 
in Interface Builder). This should have been created with your project.

> On Mar 14, 2016, at 4:38 AM, Charles Jenkins <cejw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thank you, David. Is it possible then to have two launch images and the 
> system will select the correct one based on orientation? If not, I’ll have to 
> give up on my idea of a smooth transition, because my launch image won’t be 
> able to look anything like the welcome screen that follows.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Charles
> 
> On March 14, 2016 at 01:40:09, David Duncan (david.dun...@apple.com 
> <mailto:david.dun...@apple.com>) wrote:
> 
>> 
>> > On Mar 13, 2016, at 12:32 PM, Charles Jenkins <cejw...@gmail.com> wrote: 
>> >  
>> > I’m developing my first iOS app. On the General tab of my app’s build 
>> > settings, I have checked only Portrait as the supported orientation. When 
>> > testing on an iPad today, I noticed that if I start the app with the iPad 
>> > held in landscape mode, the launch image appears in landscape and of 
>> > course looks terrible because parts of it are cut off. 
>> >  
>> > The next screen that appears is my welcome/splash screen, which is very 
>> > similar to the launch image; I meant for the transition from launch image 
>> > to welcome screen to be subtle. But the welcome screen appears in portrait 
>> > mode as it should, so the transition is jarring. 
>> >  
>> > It is not possible to have a Portrait-only launch image? If so, where else 
>> > do I need to look for settings controlling the orientation of the launch 
>> > image? 
>> 
>> Modern iPad apps (which support multitasking) do not support control of 
>> interface orientation – your application will have to support all 
>> orientations. You can opt out of this by setting an Info.plist setting that 
>> states that your application must always be presented fullscreen (I don’t 
>> recall the property off hand, but it shouldn’t be too hard to find it if you 
>> really need it) but the recommendation would be to instead support all 
>> orientations so that your application will participate in multitasking. 
>> 
>> -- 
>> David Duncan

--
David Duncan

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