How to hide iOS status bar

Question

In my iOS video app status bar is hidden in some view controllers. I have done this using following code.

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES];

• It works for iOS 5 and iOS 6 , but not in iOS 7.

• I tried with this in particular view controller,

Eg:

-(BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden { return YES; }

It works well, but I cant show status bar again in the parent view controller.

Answer 1

To hide status bar in iOS7 you need 2 lines of code

1. in application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions write

    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES];
   

2. in info.plist add this

    View-Controller Based Status Bar Appearance = NO
   

Answer 2

Update for Swift 3:

Update Info.plist with the following info:

View controller-based status bar appearance: NO

Then, in a ViewController or elsewhere:

UIApplication.shared.isStatusBarHidden = true

Answer 3

To hide your status bar in iOS7:

Open Your plist-file, then add a add a row called "View controller-based status bar appearance" and set its value to NO.

Answer 4

In iOS10 all I needed to do is override the prefersStatusBarHidden var in my RootViewController (Swift):

override var prefersStatusBarHidden: Bool {
    return true
}

Answer 5

From UIKit>UIApplication.h:

// Setting statusBarHidden does nothing if your application is using the default UIViewController-based status bar system.
@property(nonatomic,getter=isStatusBarHidden) BOOL statusBarHidden;
- (void)setStatusBarHidden:(BOOL)hidden withAnimation:(UIStatusBarAnimation)animation NS_AVAILABLE_IOS(3_2);

So should set View controller-based status bar appearance to NO

Answer 6

Steps for hide status bar in iOS
1. open AppDelegate.m file, add application.statusBarHidden in didFinishLaunchingWithOptions method

 - (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {
    // Override point for customization after application launch.
    application.statusBarHidden = YES;
    return YES;
    }

2. open info.plist and set

View controller-based status bar appearance set NO