iOS 7 status bar back to iOS 6 default style in iP

Question

In iOS 7 the UIStatusBar has been designed in a way that it merges with the view like this:

(GUI designed by Tina Tavčar)

• It is cool, but it will somewhat mess up your view when you have something at the top part of your view, and it becomes overlapped with the status bar.

• Is there a simple solution (such as setting a property in info.plist) that can change the way it works [not overlapping] back to how it is in iOS6?

• I know a more straightforward solution is to have self.view.center.x + 20 points for every single view controller, but changing them will screw other dimensions up (having a different self.view.center.x can cause problem to custom segues, etc.) and suddenly it turns into a tedious job that is best to be avoided.

• I'll really be glad if someone can provide me an one-liner solution for this.

P.S. I know I can hide the status bar by doing things like having

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES withAnimation:UIStatusBarAnimationNone];

In didFinishLaunchingWithOptions method, but that's a workaround, a shortcut avoiding the problem, so I don't consider that a real solution.

Answer 1

SOLUTION :

Set it in your viewcontroller or in rootviewcontroller by overriding the method :

-(BOOL) prefersStatusBarHidden
    {
        return YES;
    }

Answer 2

This might be too late to share, but I have something to contribute which might help someone, I was trying to sub-class the UINavigationBar and wanted to make it look like ios 6 with black status bar and status bar text in white.

Here is what I found working for that

        self.navigationController?.navigationBar.clipsToBounds = true
        self.navigationController?.navigationBar.translucent = false
        self.navigationController?.navigationBar.barStyle = .Black
        self.navigationController?.navigationBar.barTintColor = UIColor.whiteColor()

It made my status bar background black, status bar text white and navigation bar's color white.

iOS 9.3, XCode 7.3.1

Answer 3

My solution was to add a UIView with height of 20 points on top of the window when on iOS 7. Then I created a method in my AppDelegate class to show/hide the "solid" status bar background. In application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions::

// ...

// Add a status bar background
self.statusBarBackground = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, self.window.bounds.size.width, 20.0f)];
self.statusBarBackground.backgroundColor = [UIColor blackColor];
self.statusBarBackground.alpha = 0.0;
self.statusBarBackground.userInteractionEnabled = NO;
self.statusBarBackground.layer.zPosition = 999; // Position its layer over all other views
[self.window addSubview:self.statusBarBackground];

// ...
return YES;

Then I created a method to fade in/out the black status bar background:

- (void) showSolidStatusBar:(BOOL) solidStatusBar
{
    [UIView animateWithDuration:0.3f animations:^{
        if(solidStatusBar)
        {
            [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent];
            self.statusBarBackground.alpha = 1.0f;
        }
        else
        {
            [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleDefault];
            self.statusBarBackground.alpha = 0.0f;
        }
    }];
}

All I have to do now is call is [appDelegate showSolidStatusBar:YES] when needed.

Answer 4

I found here is the best alternatives and solution for this navigation bar issue in iOS7!!

http://www.appcoda.com/customize-navigation-status-bar-ios-7/

I hope it will clear our all queries and worries.

Answer 5

I have viewed many many many many and many tutorials to fix this darn problem. But none of them works! Here is my solution, and it works for me:

if( [[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] floatValue] >= 7.0f ) {
    float statusBarHeight = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] statusBarFrame].size.height;
    for( UIView *v in [self.view subviews] ) {
        CGRect rect = v.frame;
        rect.origin.y += statusBarHeight;
        v.frame = rect;
    }
}

The logic is simple. I shift all children views on the self.view with 20 pixels. That's all. Then, the screenshot will display just like as iOS 6 did. I hate the iOS7 status bar! ~"~

Answer 6

The easiest way to do so is installing an older SDK to your newest Xcode.

How to install older SDK to the newest Xcode?

1. U can get the iOS 6.1 SDK from http://www.4shared.com/zip/NlPgsxz6/iPhoneOS61sdk.html or downloading an older Xcode and geting the SDK from its contents

2. Unzip and paste this folder to /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs

3. Restart the xcode.

4. U can now select an older SDK on your project's build settings

Hope it helps you. It worked for me =)