How to hide status bar after calling UIImagePickerController? - ios

Question

I want to hide the status bar after calling UIImagePickerController on iOS 10.2.
There are several questions with answers that don't work for Swift 3.0.
The suggested answers are:
extend UINavigationController to override preferStatusBarHidden, because UIImagePickerController is a subclass of UINavigationController.
So I tried:
extension UINavigationController{
open override var prefersStatusBarHidden: Bool{
return true
}
}
extend UIImagePickerController to override prefersStatusBarHidden.
So I tried:
extension UIImagePickerController{
open override var prefersStatusBarHidden: Bool{
return true
}
}
create and use a subclass of UIImagePicker
So I tried:
class MyImagePickerController: UIImagePickerController{
override var prefersStatusBarHidden: Bool{
return true
}
}
None of the above solutions work for me.

Answer 1

The status bar can be permanently hidden with the following extension to UIImagePickerController :
extension UIImagePickerController {
open override var childViewControllerForStatusBarHidden: UIViewController? {
return nil
}
open override var prefersStatusBarHidden: Bool {
return true
}
}
This is working for Swift 3, on iOS 10.

Answer 2

You are adding the delegate method method of UINavigationControllerDelegate like below.
class PersonalInfoVC: UIViewController, UIImagePickerControllerDelegate , UINavigationControllerDelegate{
Adding the delegate and hide the status bar in it.
func navigationController(_ navigationController: UINavigationController, willShow viewController: UIViewController, animated: Bool){
UIApplication.shared.isStatusBarHidden = true
}

Answer 3

None of those answers worked for me on iOS 13. I had to set this flag on the presenting view controller before presenting the image picker:
viewController.modalPresentationCapturesStatusBarAppearance = YES;
[viewController presentViewController:picker animated:YES completion:nil];

Answer 4

The status bar can be hidden and show when presenting view controller UIImagePickerController swift 4+
picker.dismiss(animated: true, completion: {
if let statusBar = UIApplication.shared.value(forKey: "statusBar") as? UIView {
statusBar.isHidden = true
}
})
picker.dismiss(animated: true, completion: {
if let statusBar = UIApplication.shared.value(forKey: "statusBar") as? UIView {
statusBar.isHidden = false
}
})