Crash on CarPlay: requestGeometryUpdateWithPreferences not supported by CPTemplateApplicationScene

[yagoal]

Description:

When using react-native-orientation-locker in a CarPlay environment, the app crashes with the following error:

-[CPTemplateApplicationScene requestGeometryUpdateWithPreferences:errorHandler:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance

The crash happens in the method lockToOrientation:usingMask: because the following code assumes the first connected scene is always a UIWindowScene:

if (@available(iOS 16.0, *)) {
    UIWindowScene *windowScene = (UIWindowScene *)[UIApplication sharedApplication].connectedScenes.allObjects.firstObject;
        
    UIWindowSceneGeometryPreferencesIOS *geometryPreferences = [[UIWindowSceneGeometryPreferencesIOS alloc] initWithInterfaceOrientations:mask];
    [windowScene requestGeometryUpdateWithPreferences:geometryPreferences errorHandler:^(NSError * _Nonnull error) {
#if DEBUG
        if (error) {
            NSLog(@"Failed to update geometry with UIInterfaceOrientationMask: %@", error);
        }
#endif
    }];
}

On CarPlay, the active scene is of type CPTemplateApplicationScene, which does not implement requestGeometryUpdateWithPreferences:errorHandler:.

💡 Suggested Fix

if (@available(iOS 16.0, *)) {
    UIScene *scene = UIApplication.sharedApplication.connectedScenes.allObjects.firstObject;
    if ([scene isKindOfClass:[UIWindowScene class]]) {
        UIWindowScene *windowScene = (UIWindowScene *)scene;

        UIWindowSceneGeometryPreferencesIOS *geometryPreferences =
            [[UIWindowSceneGeometryPreferencesIOS alloc] initWithInterfaceOrientations:mask];

        [windowScene requestGeometryUpdateWithPreferences:geometryPreferences
                                             errorHandler:^(NSError * _Nonnull error) {
            #if DEBUG
            if (error) {
                NSLog(@"Failed to update geometry with UIInterfaceOrientationMask: %@", error);
            }
            #endif
        }];
    } else {
        NSLog(@"[Orientation] Scene is not UIWindowScene (possibly CarPlay CPTemplateApplicationScene)");
    }
} else {
    UIDevice* currentDevice = [UIDevice currentDevice];
    [currentDevice setValue:@(UIInterfaceOrientationUnknown) forKey:orientation];
    [currentDevice setValue:@(newOrientation) forKey:orientation];
}

ℹ️ Additional Notes

• This crash occurs because CarPlay scenes are of type CPTemplateApplicationScene instead of UIWindowScene.
• CPTemplateApplicationScene does not support geometry updates, so calling requestGeometryUpdateWithPreferences directly causes an unrecognized selector crash.
• The proposed fix adds a type check to ensure the call is only made when the scene is a UIWindowScene.
• On iPhone/iPad the current behavior remains unchanged.