Status Bar Still Showing

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I am getting REALLY frustrated!!

I have tried every living possibility to get rid of the UIStatusBar at the top of my app...

I have tried:

Setting Status Bar to "None" in IB
Running [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES]; on application launch AND in each scene.
Going to the .plist and changing the value for Status Bar Hidden at Startup: YES
Setting that same value on the home page for the target
Setting - (BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden { return YES; } in the app delegate

Literally none of this works... It still shows up on all of my views, and it is SUPER frustrating

Thanks again :)

Side note: I'm in xcode 5, developer beta iOS 7 beta 6, but this also happens on my old ios6 and xcode 4 apps

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES withAnimation:UIStatusBarAnimationFade]; from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5709123/ios-4-3-hide-status-bar-permanently\ — iPatel, Aug 30 '13 at 05:59
If you see my post, I already tried that, but thank you for the suggestion :) — tyler53, Aug 30 '13 at 14:38
You can also add "View controller-based status bar appearance" and set it to "NO" in your info.plist file as shown in this post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17763719/status-bar-wont-disappear — jsherk, Sep 24 '13 at 20:22
Had a look at Bram's answer? Looks a lot simpler to me than the 'correct answer'. Works for me. — , Jan 06 '14 at 11:49

Vaibhav Gautam · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-10T11:47:52.747

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Please try this

//viewDidload
if ([self respondsToSelector:@selector(setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate)]) {
    // iOS 7
    [self prefersStatusBarHidden];
    [self performSelector:@selector(setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate)];
} else {
    // iOS 6
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES withAnimation:UIStatusBarAnimationSlide];
}


// Add this Method
- (BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden
{
return YES;
}

~~This code has been taken from this link~~

edited Dec 10 '13 at 11:47

answered Aug 30 '13 at 05:49

Vaibhav Gautam

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is that bool method in each class, or the appdelegate – tyler53 Aug 30 '13 at 05:53
Implement this method in your rootViewController, Implementing it in rootViewController is global – Vaibhav Gautam Aug 30 '13 at 05:54
I have no root view controller, I have app Delegate, and then a view controller for my one view, but this is an SKSprite project so it didn't populate a root view controller – tyler53 Aug 30 '13 at 05:56
I haven't worked with SKSprite kit but should work with your first viewcontroller – Vaibhav Gautam Aug 30 '13 at 06:04
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"not so" surprisingly I don't have any Apple Developer Account, and "Surprisingly" I have posted the link to website where it is posted also. you may blame them – Vaibhav Gautam Aug 30 '13 at 17:42
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Why are you calling -prefersStatusBarHidden? – lhunath Sep 18 '13 at 01:36

score 15 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 22 '13 at 19:29

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What I usually do is add two key-value properties to the Info.plist file.

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The properties source code is:

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answered Nov 22 '13 at 19:29

German Attanasio

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One thing everyone fails to emphasize upon is that "View controller-based status bar appearance" is a `BOOLEAN` value. Mine was set to String, and I almost tore my hair out. – n00bProgrammer Dec 13 '13 at 10:11
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You really should avoid disabling view-controller based status bar appearance. This is merely a compatibility option added to make old apps work under iOS 7 when developers have no time or are unable to implement the new way of things. – lhunath Jan 14 '14 at 19:17

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 11 '13 at 18:45

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You need to add a method to the view controller, and not to the app delegate as you write.

- (BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden
{
    return YES;
}

answered Sep 11 '13 at 18:45

Bram

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score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 27 '15 at 10:43

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As something occured to me!!

for anyone else ,, Make sure you are modifying the info.plist in the right *TARGET* :/

plus the accepted answer.

answered Apr 27 '15 at 10:43

M.Othman

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