How to hide status bar for specific viewcontroller in ios 9, using objective-C

Question

I want to hide the status bar for specific view controllers, not for all. then I tried this,

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES]; in the `.AppDelegate.m` inside the `didfinishlaunchwithoption`  but it didn't work. and also it is deprecated.

then I tried in my viewcontroller

- (BOOL) prefersStatusBarHidden{
    return YES;
}

this also didn't work. anyone can help me with this.thnak you I don't want to use any deprecated methods here

Possible duplicate of [Hide the status bar in ios 9](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32965610/hide-the-status-bar-in-ios-9) — Badal Shah, Jan 18 '16 at 07:07
nope bro @DianaProdan didn't work for me,tried all. do you have any idea. — caldera.sac, Sep 01 '16 at 08:33
I removed from .plist `'View controller-based status bar appearance` field, and added `- (BOOL) prefersStatusBarHidden{ return YES; }` in controller where I need status bar to be hidden. It worked — Diana Prodan, Sep 02 '16 at 13:21

MOHAMMAD ISHAQ · Answer 1 · 2016-01-18T07:16:35.490

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Go to info.plist and add two attributes if not present. set "Status bar is initially hidden" to "YES" and set "UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance" to "YES". This will hide status bar for your app.

-(BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden
{
    return YES;
}

and call this method where you want,For example from viewDidLoad

[self prefersStatusBarHidden];

edited Jan 18 '16 at 07:16

answered Jan 18 '16 at 06:49

MOHAMMAD ISHAQ

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this works fine for hide status bar. but it didn't work to show status bar in specific view controller.anyway thanx – caldera.sac Jan 18 '16 at 06:56
@Graham check edited answer this is working perfect for me just change "UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance" to "YES" and do the other as same. – MOHAMMAD ISHAQ Jan 18 '16 at 07:17

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 15 '17 at 09:42

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Try the code below in your view controller.
Try the following method without deprication warnings:

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated{
    [super viewWillAppear:animated];
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES withAnimation:NO];

}

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

Update for iOS 9
Add the following code in your viewController for hiding status bar.

- (BOOL) prefersStatusBarHidden {
    return YES;
}

edited Dec 15 '17 at 09:42

Tamás Sengel

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answered Jan 18 '16 at 07:01

Aamir

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`setStatusBarHidden(_:withAnimation:)` is deprecated in iOS 9. – Theo Apr 25 '16 at 12:45

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 12 '16 at 20:04

I want to hide the status bar for specific view controllers, not for all.

Only the top-level view controller gets to say whether the status bar is hidden. Your prefersStatusBarHidden is not consulted because your view controller is not the top-level view controller — it has some kind of parent view controller which is in charge of the status bar.

score -1 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 18 '16 at 06:43

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Try below code in your view controller.

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

}

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

answered Jan 18 '16 at 06:43

Mahendra Kumar

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`[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES]` this method is deprecated. – caldera.sac Jan 18 '16 at 06:45

score -1 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 18 '16 at 07:24

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Add below code to your view controller..

 - (BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden {

   return NO;
}

If you change the return value for this method, call the setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate method.

For childViewController, To specify that a child view controller should control preferred status bar hidden/unhidden state, implement the childViewControllerForStatusBarHidden method.

answered Jan 18 '16 at 07:24

Pankaj Teckchandani

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`prefersStatusBarHidden` not getting called – Mrug Sep 27 '16 at 07:04
It's impossible to call `setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate` after return command in the `prefersStatusBarHidden` method. – Dmitry Nov 10 '16 at 20:54

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