Hide the status bar in ios 9 - ios

Question

How do you hide the status bar in ios 9?
This is now deprecated:
[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES];

Answer 1

Swift-3
override var prefersStatusBarHidden: Bool {
return true
}
I got the Information From Here
Change func to var
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Change -> to :
This works because a computed variable has a getter function, so the function you were implementing before simply turns into the getter function
2016 onwards: simple Thing like
On your info.plist add the following two property for statusBar Hidden
View controller-based status bar appearance (Boolean: NO)
Status bar is initially hidden (Boolean: YES)
By Source
<key>UIStatusBarHidden</key>
<true/>
<key>UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance</key>
<false/>
or
Old answers ! ...
add application.statusBarHidden in didFinishLaunchingWithOptions
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {
// Override point for customization after application launch.
application.statusBarHidden = YES;
return YES;
}
and add
in info.plist add this View controller-based status bar appearance set NO
View controller-based status bar appearance = NO
viewcontroller based hidden set
Add method in your view controller.
Objective -C
- (BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden {
return YES;
}
Swift upto 2
override func prefersStatusBarHidden() -> Bool {
return true
}
(GOOD) 2016.5.17 in iOS 9.0 worked nicely.
Updated Answer
Go to Info.plist file
Hover on one of those lines and a (+) and (-) button will show up.
Click the plus button to add new key
Type in start with capital V and automatically the first choice will be View controller-based status bar appearance. Add that as the KEY.
Set the VALUE to "NO"
Go to you AppDelegate.m for Objective-C (for swift language: AppDelegate.swift)
Add the code, inside the method
For Objective-C:
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {
[application setStatusBarHidden:YES];
return YES;
}
For Swift:
func application(application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [NSObject:AnyObject]?) -> Bool {
application.statusBarHidden = true
return true
}

Answer 2

in info.plist add the following two property.
View controller-based status bar appearance (NO)
Status bar is initially hidden (YES)

Answer 3

I know that the documentation of setStatusBarHidden: does not mention on what use instead. But the header of UIApplication does.
// Setting statusBarHidden does nothing if your application is using the default UIViewController-based status bar system.
#property(readwrite, nonatomic,getter=isStatusBarHidden) BOOL statusBarHidden NS_DEPRECATED_IOS(2_0, 9_0, "Use -[UIViewController prefersStatusBarHidden]");
- (void)setStatusBarHidden:(BOOL)hidden withAnimation:(UIStatusBarAnimation)animation NS_DEPRECATED_IOS(3_2, 9_0, "Use -[UIViewController prefersStatusBarHidden]");
Here is stated that you should use the prefersStatusBarHidden on UIViewController and use view controller based statusbar styles.
All you need to do now is configure whether the view controller needs to show of hide the status bar. Like so :
- (BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden {
return YES;
}

Answer 4

Here's how do you easily return a control over status bar visibility for iOS 9+ and Swift 3+:
Add View controller-based status bar appearance key with YES value to Info.plist.
Add this variable to the view controller:
private var isStatusBarHidden = false {
didSet {
setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate()
}
}
Override prefersStatusBarHidden property:
override var prefersStatusBarHidden: Bool {
return isStatusBarHidden
}
That's it. Now you are able to call isStatusBarHidden = true and isStatusBarHidden = false whenever you want.

Answer 5

An easy approach would be to set the windowLevel of the Application to be either normal or statusBar based on your needs, so to start
Objective-C
To Hide the Status Bar
UIApplication.sharedApplication.keyWindow.windowLevel = UIWindowLevelStatusBar;
To Show the Status Bar
UIApplication.sharedApplication.keyWindow.windowLevel = UIWindowLevelNormal;
Also add the Key (View controller-based status bar appearance) with boolean value NO.

Answer 6

If for some reason you need View controller-based status bar appearance equal to YES (for example to keep status bar white)
on AppDelegate's didFinishLaunchingWithOptions method or wherever you setup your navigationController:
yourNavigationController.navigationBar.barStyle = .black
then use alex-staravoitau's awesome answer and add this code wherever you'll be hiding the status bar:
override var preferredStatusBarStyle: UIStatusBarStyle {
return .lightContent
}
I'm not sure if this is the right way to achieve this result, but it worked for me and I hope it helps someone else too :)

Answer 7

In most of the iOS it will work. I have tested with iOS 10.
Open info.plist
"View controller-based status bar appearance" set to NO
"Status bar is initially hidden" set to YES
Done