How to hide the status bar programmatically in iOS 7?

Question

In ios7, how can I hide the statusbar programmatically? I am using XCode 4.6.1 (ios6.1) and I want to implement this in XCode itself.

Answer 1

in iOS7 you should implement in your viewController

- (BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden {     return YES; } 

Answer 2

you can hide status bar to set the key value "View controller-based status bar appearance" NO in plist. This is easiest way.

or You can hide in code by using property statusBarHidden of UIApplication class.

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES]; 

Swift 3.0

Hide status bar for any particular view controller

override var prefersStatusBarHidden: Bool {     get {         return true     } } 

Hide Status bas across the application

UIApplication.shared.isStatusBarHidden = true

and set the key value "View controller-based status bar appearance" NO in info plist of project.