How to hide the status bar programmatically in iOS

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• How to hide iOS status bar 20 answers

Just like the question says, I need to hide status + navigation bar when user taps. So far, navigation bar was easy. Cann't find a way to do the same with status bar.

By the way, tried

UIApplication.sharedApplication().statusBarHidden = true

but no luck yet

Answer 1

You should add this key/value pair to your project's Info.plist.

<key>UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance</key>
<false/>

After that,calling

UIApplication.sharedApplication().statusBarHidden = true

or

UIApplication.sharedApplication().setStatusBarHidden(true, withAnimation: .Fade) // with animation option.

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Answer 2

This should do the trick:

UIApplication.sharedApplication().setStatusBarHidden(true, withAnimation: UIStatusBarAnimation.Slide)

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