How to hide status bar of a single view controller in iOS 9?

Question

In a ViewController, which I presented modally, I did this:

override func prefersStatusBarHidden() -> Bool {     return true } 

This used to work, but it no longer works. What's the best way to hide the status bar only for this view controller?

Answer 1

For Swift 3 & Swift 4 it has changed to overriding a variable like this:

override var prefersStatusBarHidden: Bool {   return true } 

If you want to "Update" the state once the view controller is already being displayed, you will need to call:

setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate() 

Please refer to the documentation.