imageorient | Go image decoding with respect to the EXIF orientation tag | Computer Vision library

Background

I have an app that uses AVFoundation in order to have a custom camera. This happens in the OCRViewController. When I take a picture I send the captured picture to a different view ImagePreviewViewController.

I am using Xcode 10.2.1 (10E1001) with Swift 5

The Goal

What I would like to achieve is to lock the orientation of the ImagePreviewViewController to the original orientation of the image. I already know how to get the orientation of the image but I am not able to lock the orientation of the view.

I get the image rotation as such: let imageOri = capturedImage?.imageOrientation

What did I try?

I tried the accepted answers at and several other sources:

How to lock orientation just for one view controller?

How to lock orientation of one view controller to portrait mode only in Swift

https://www.hackingwithswift.com/example-code/uikit/how-to-lock-a-view-controllers-orientation-using-supportedinterfaceorientations

Reading the documentation at https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiviewcontroller#//apple_ref/occ/instm/UIViewController/supportedInterfaceOrientations under Handling View Rotation the following is stated:

I also tried the many suggested solutions while writing this query, however, the majority appears to use the following approach (or a variation of it), and it does not work for me.