 <p>You have to enable the allowable rotations at the project level and then restrict rotation on all the viewControllers you DON'T want to rotate. i.e. if you have 5 viewControllers, you'll need to restrict rotation on 4 of them and only allow rotation on the Player Controller. You can see more on this here <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19502251/handling-autorotation-for-one-view-controller-in-ios7">Handling autorotation for one view controller in iOS7</a></p>