How to hide iOS status bar

Question

You should add this value to plist: "View controller-based status bar appearance" and set it to "NO".

Add the following to your Info.plist:

<key>UIStatusBarHidden</key>
<true/>
<key>UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance</key>
<false/>

Add following line in viewdidload

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

and add new method

  - (BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden {
          return YES;
  }

also change info.plist file View controller-based status bar appearance" = NO

its works for me

In the Plist add the following properties.

Status bar is initially hidden = YES

View controller-based status bar appearance = NO

now the status bar will hidden.

Try this simple method:

---

Objective-C:

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
    [super viewWillAppear:animated]
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES withAnimation:UIStatusBarAnimationNone];
}

- (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated
{
    [super viewWillDisappear:animated]
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:NO withAnimation:UIStatusBarAnimationNone];
}

---

Swift:

override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) 
{
    super.viewWillAppear(animated)
    UIApplication.sharedApplication().setStatusBarHidden(true, withAnimation: UIStatusBarAnimation.None)
}

override func viewWillDisappear(animated: Bool) 
{
    super.viewWillDisappear(animated)
    UIApplication.sharedApplication().setStatusBarHidden(false, withAnimation: UIStatusBarAnimation.None)
}

I did the following and it seems to work (even in iOS 8):

- (void)navigationController:(UINavigationController *)navigationController willShowViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController animated:(BOOL)animated
{
    if ([self respondsToSelector:@selector(setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate)]) {

        [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES];
    }
}

- (BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden {
    return YES;
}