How to hide status bar in iOS 7?

Question

I have tried setting the following in my app .plist file:

View controller-based status bar appearance: NO

And while this removes it from my initial view controller, once I go to another view and come back with my navigation controller, it comes right back and this time it does not disappear. Also, I don't see why it would matter but I have also set the status bar under simulated metrics to "None" but that doesn't seem to help. I know i am going to have the navigation bar but the status bar I need gone.

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How can I get this done? Please provide a detailed answer, sample code would be great!

Update: This is NOT a duplicate solution as I have tried all other solutions and NONE seem to work for me. Most recently I tried

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

Again, with no results. When the app initially launches a status bar is NOT present, after the user visits another view, the status bar is now present in the 2 and other views and does not go away. Even if you go back to the main view.

you've set into the others controller some staff for your navigation bar? — Mirko Catalano, Nov 07 '13 at 01:44
possible duplicate of [Cannot hide status bar in iOS7](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18059703/cannot-hide-status-bar-in-ios7) — Adrian P, Nov 07 '13 at 03:44
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18981256/hiding-statusbar-in-ios7/18981448#18981448 — yen, Nov 07 '13 at 05:28

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 09 '13 at 19:57

I have tried all of the suggestions that were posted here, unfortunately what happened here was a small mistake, in my viewDidLoad I had:

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES];

But in my viewWillAppear I had:

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:NO];

So this was just an issue of overriding, problem fixed now.

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 07 '13 at 02:59

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To hide status bar:

if [View controller-based status bar appearance: NO]: in AppDelegate.m call

[[UIApplication sharedApplication]setStatusBarHidden:YES];

else: in every view controller

- (BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden
{
    return YES;
}

answered Nov 07 '13 at 02:59

Wubao Li

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I tried this, but it does not work for me, please see updated post – vzm Nov 07 '13 at 21:24
show more code in your second view. Maybe some code change the status bar hidden property indirectly. – Wubao Li Nov 08 '13 at 09:13
[[UIApplication sharedApplication]setStatusBarHidden:YES]; worked for me. Thought I have set View controller-based status bar appearance: NO already – Ans Apr 22 '14 at 22:15

Guto Araujo · Answer 3 · 2013-11-07T09:38:26.110

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Use this method in the View Controller which you'd like the Status Bar hidden:

- (BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden {
    return YES;
}

edited Nov 07 '13 at 09:38

answered Nov 07 '13 at 01:59

Guto Araujo

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I tried this, but it does not work for me, please see updated post – vzm Nov 07 '13 at 21:20

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 07 '13 at 06:34

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Try this 2 steps:

In .Plist file of project set the property:

View controller-based status bar appearance = NO;

and 2.In all view controller's .m file in viewDidLoad method put this line of code:

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

answered Nov 07 '13 at 06:34

Dipak Makwana

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I tried this, but it does not work for me, please see updated post – vzm Nov 07 '13 at 21:20

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 07 '14 at 14:18

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This should work :

// In iOS7 this gets called and hides the status bar so the view does not go under the top iPhone
// status bar

- (BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden {
      return YES;
}

answered Mar 07 '14 at 14:18

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Mar 25 '14 at 14:55

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none of these work for me. when i try this method i get the message "use of undeclared identifier preferstatusbarHidden

include - (BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden {
      return YES;
}

answered Mar 25 '14 at 14:55

vboombatz

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered May 22 '14 at 07:28

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I don't know what to do anymore. I tried setStatusBarHidden, prefersHiddenStatusBar and still no results. Finally i have went through the below you tube link :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtpBXdMSqRQ

It worked for me.

answered May 22 '14 at 07:28

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