How to prevent iOS 5 from showing the status bar even though UIStatusBarHidden is YES?

Question

Some users reported that iOS 5 sometimes shows the status bar.

In my Info.plist the UIStatusBarHidden key is YES, and I never mess around with the status bar in code.

What can I do to fix that?

Answer 1

the entry in the Info.plist should be enough to hide it, but you can try doing it programmatically with:

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES animated:NO];  

when your app starts up.

Answer 2

I think the above method is deprecated in iOS5, I would use this one instead:

[[UIApplication sharedApplication]setStatusBarHidden:YES withAnimation:UIStatusBarAnimationNone];