[edusperoni]

Problem

On iPad, taps aimed from a screenshot miss whenever the screen isn't upright portrait. The agent's views of the screen disagree:

	landscape app	upside-down portrait	home screen in landscape
device.info screen size	portrait (1032×1376)	ok	portrait
device.io.orientation.get	the device's, not the app's	ok	ok
device.screenshot	upright on the simulator. Sideways on a real iPad held in portrait with a landscape-only app	upside down	upright
device.dump.ui	ok	ok	SpringBoard's elements and the status bar in portrait panel coordinates
device.io.tap	ok	mirrored to the opposite corner	ok

Clients such as mobile-mcp scale screenshot positions by screenSize and tap at the result, so any of these sends the tap somewhere else.

Fix

Everything follows the foreground app's interface orientation, which taps and the app's ui tree already used:

• device.info lays the screen size out the way the foreground app is drawn. SpringBoard's frame stays portrait while a landscape app is on top, so its sides are swapped when the interface is landscape.
• device.io.orientation.get reports the app's interface orientation, not XCUIDevice.orientation. That also avoids faceUp for a device lying flat. A landscape-only app on a portrait-held device now reports LANDSCAPE.
• device.screenshot: when XCTest hands back the panel's unrotated portrait pixels, they are rotated by the app's interface orientation, using the same mapping OrientationGeometry.touchPoint undoes for taps. Pixels XCTest already laid out in landscape keep XCTest's tag.
• Taps (OrientationGeometry.touchPoint) handle portraitUpsideDown.
• device.dump.ui: SpringBoard reports its elements on the panel's portrait axes however the interface is turned. Its application element is the exception: its frame already follows the rotation. The elements inside it (the home screen, when SpringBoard is in front) and the status bars are mapped onto the rotated screen with the inverse of touchPoint. App hierarchies are unchanged.

OrientationGeometry.interfaceOrientation() is the single source of the orientation for all of these.

Behaviour change

device.io.orientation.get now answers "how is the app drawn", not "how is the device held". Setting LANDSCAPE and then calling get on a portrait-only screen, such as an iPhone home screen, returns PORTRAIT. That is what screenshots, device.info and taps all see.

Verification

iPad Pro 13" (M4) simulator, iOS 18.5:

State	device.info	screenshot	tree vs screenshot	tap from tree
Home screen, portrait	1032×1376	upright	match	opens Settings
Home screen, landscape left	1376×1032	upright	match (dock was at x=38)	opens Settings
Home screen, landscape right	1376×1032	upright	match	opens Settings
Home screen, upside down	1032×1376	upright (was upside down)	match	opens Settings
Settings app, landscape left / right / upside down	rotated	upright	status bar along the top (was a 24×1376 strip)	—
Landscape-only app, device portrait	1376×1032	upright	match	hits the target

Real iPad (iOS 18.6), with a landscape-only app on a device held in portrait: device.info 1366×1024 (was 1024×1366), and the screenshot is 2732×2048 upright (was sideways). A tap aimed from the screenshot hit the intended tab.

The landscape-right and upside-down rows used a local build where orientation.set temporarily accepted those values. That change isn't part of this PR.

• e2e: new tests check that, with Safari in landscape, device.info matches the rotated screen and a screenshot is screenSize × scale. On the landscape home screen, a tap at the middle of an icon from the tree opens its app, the status bar runs along the top, and SpringBoard's application element fills the rotated screen. The Safari ones fail on 0.0.34. The home-screen ones check exactly what 0.0.34's tree gets wrong (the dock at x=38, the status bar as a 24×1376 strip).
• Full suite on the simulator, rebased on main: all pass. device.io.swipe › swipes over an explicit duration is flaky and fails now and then on main too.
• swiftlint reports no new violations in the changed lines.

Not covered

• Foldables and secondary displays keep their existing paths; I couldn't test them.
• The MJPEG stream isn't rotated.
• There's no e2e test for upside-down or landscape-right, because device.io.orientation.set only accepts PORTRAIT and LANDSCAPE.

Related: mobile-next/mobilecli#545 fixes the same mismatch on Android (mobile-next/mobile-mcp#453).

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Walkthrough

The changes use foreground-app interface orientation for orientation reporting and main-display screen dimensions. They add coordinate transforms for SpringBoard hierarchies, status bars, and accessibility element frames. Screenshot capture now tracks whether the selected image came from the main screen and applies orientation correction to eligible images. The README and RPC tests describe and check these behaviors.

Priority: Normal

Merge Risk: Low · up to bf4d3

Landscape secondary-display dimensions can be wrong, and the new home-screen tests may miss landscape regressions. Confirm the SpringBoard root coordinates before relying on its reported frame.

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tests/rpc.test.ts: 1

469-473: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Run home-screen landscape tests only after landscape is established.

The setup can select any booted simulator, including an iPhone. On an iPhone, the home screen remains in portrait after device.io.orientation.set and the delay. The icon and status-bar assertions can therefore pass in portrait and leave the landscape frame mapping untested. This is a coverage gap, not a broken test workflow. Restrict these cases to a landscape-capable home screen and poll the reported orientation until LANDSCAPE before the assertions.

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Review comment at @tests/rpc.test.ts around lines 469 - 473:
Update the setup for the home-screen landscape tests in test.beforeEach to run
only on a landscape-capable home screen, and poll the reported orientation until
it is LANDSCAPE before proceeding to the assertions. Do not rely on a fixed
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Review comments at @DeviceKitTests/JSONRPC/Handlers/DeviceInfo.swift:
- Line 18: Update OrientationGeometry.secondaryDisplaySize() to order the
secondary-display dimensions according to the foreground app’s interface
orientation, so landscape apps receive landscape-shaped dimensions. Preserve the
existing mainDisplaySize(of:) fallback when no secondary-display size is
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Review comments at @DeviceKitTests/JSONRPC/Handlers/DumpUI.swift:
- Line 118: Update the `inInterfaceSpace` call in the `appHierarchy` flow to
preserve the SpringBoard root frame when it is already in interface coordinates,
while converting only descendant frames that remain in panel coordinates; avoid
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- Around line 469-473: Update the setup for the home-screen landscape tests in
test.beforeEach to run only on a landscape-capable home screen, and poll the
reported orientation until it is LANDSCAPE before proceeding to the assertions.
Do not rely on a fixed sleep or allow portrait-capable iPhone home screens to
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[gmegidish]

@edusperoni thank you so much for this pull request fix!

Tested this on iPhone 17 Pro (iOS 26.5) and iPad mini 6 (iPadOS 17.5), in portrait and landscape. On iPad landscape it fixes the bugs you saw: the ui dump drew icons below the screen, taps on dumped elements missed, and device.info said portrait while the app was landscape. mobilecli's new orientation tests went from 4 iPad landscape failures to 10/10.

Great PR, thank you! 🙏