IOS 8 Rotation Stuck in Portrait

There's some kind of bug in iOS8 that is getting devices stuck in portrait mode; I noticed both my wife's iPhone 5s and my 6 were stuck in portrait orientation this evening, and nothing short of a complete reboot would fix the problem and restore normal auto-rotation. (I tried toggling the rotation lock, the reduce motion setting, sleep and wake, and manually closing all open apps.) I found a couple of other threads here complaining about what sounds like the same problem on iPads.
The only thing that had been done on both of them since the last reboot (which was less than 12 hours earlier) was run Epic Zen Garden, so I'm suspecting either Metal-intensive apps or apps that have a fixed orientation, but when I tried firing that up again it alone didn't seem to be enough to get the OS stuck again.
I'm wondering if:
a) Anybody has figured out what, if anything specific, is triggering this.
b) If there's a workaround faster than rebooting the phone.
c) If it's already on Apple's bug tracker (I'm not a dev).
If it's not a listed bug yet, figuring out more specifically what is triggering it would let someone file it properly; "rotation lock sometimes gets stuck" is a shoddy bug report when it comes to trying to reproduce it. And it's a pretty severe usability bug, so I'd hope it'd make a priority list once it does get filed.

Same here. Just noticed it.
Convinced it's not hardware as issue goes away.
I have successfully fixed the issue with a reboot but also by launching the maps or compass apps.
By doing this it seems to 'reset' and then work in other apps such as BBC News. Seems to happen quite often though nothing concrete on what causes it.
Think it may be when using an app that senses rotation, and using this app for a long while in one orientation. iOS seems to the forget rotate later. Apps that don't rotate don't seem the cause the problem.
I trust Apple are likely to fix this in 8.1 ?

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