iOS 7 - Status bar overlaps the view

Question

I have a ViewController which is inside a UINavigationcontroller, but the navigationBar is hidden. When I run the app on iOS 7, the status bar shows on top of my view. Is there a way to avoid this?

I don't want to write any OS specific code.

I tried setting View controller-based status bar appearance to NO, but it did not fix the issue.

Answer 1

Xcode 5 has iOS 6/7 Deltas which is specifically made to resolve this issue. In the storyboard, I moved my views 20 pixels down to look right on iOS 7 and in order to make it iOS 6 compatible, I changed Delta y to -20.

Since my storyboard is not using auto-layout, in order to resize the height of views properly on iOS 6 I had to set Delta height as well as Delta Y.

Answer 2

If you simply do NOT want any status bar at all, you need to update your plist with this data: To do this, in the plist, add those 2 settings:

<key>UIStatusBarHidden</key>
<true/>
<key>UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance</key>
<false/>

In iOS 7 you are expected to design your app with an overlaid transparent status bar in mind. See the new iOS 7 Weather app for example.

Answer 3

This is the default behaviour for UIViewController on iOS 7. The view will be full-screen which means the status bar will cover the top of your view.

If you have a UIViewController within a UINavigationController and the navigationBar is visible, you can have the following code in your viewDidLoad or have a background image for navigationBar do the trick.

self.edgesForExtendedLayout = UIRectEdgeNone;

If you have navigationBar hidden, then you have to adjust all the UIView elements by shifting 20 points. I dont't see any other solution. Use auto layout will help a little bit.

Here is the sample code for detecting the iOS version, if you want to backward compatibility.

NSUInteger DeviceSystemMajorVersion() {
    static NSUInteger _deviceSystemMajorVersion = -1;
    static dispatch_once_t onceToken;

    dispatch_once(&onceToken, ^{
        NSString *systemVersion = [UIDevice currentDevice].systemVersion;
        _deviceSystemMajorVersion = [[systemVersion componentsSeparatedByString:@"."][0] intValue];
    });

   return _deviceSystemMajorVersion;
}

Answer 4

Only working solution i've made by my self.

Here is my UIViewController subclass https://github.com/comonitos/ios7_overlaping

1 Subclass from UIViewController

2 Subclass your window.rootViewController from that class.

3 Voila!

- (void) viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
    [super viewWillAppear:animated];

    if ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] floatValue] >= 7.0) {
        CGRect screen = [[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds];
        if (self.navigationController) {
            CGRect frame = self.navigationController.view.frame;
            frame.origin.y = 20;
            frame.size.height = screen.size.height - 20;
            self.navigationController.view.frame = frame;
        } else {
            if ([self respondsToSelector: @selector(containerView)]) {
                UIView *containerView = (UIView *)[self performSelector: @selector(containerView)];

                CGRect frame = containerView.frame;
                frame.origin.y = 20;
                frame.size.height = screen.size.height - 20;
                containerView.frame = frame;
            } else {
                CGRect frame = self.view.frame;
                frame.origin.y = 20;
                frame.size.height = screen.size.height - 20;
                self.view.frame = frame;
            }
        }
    }
}

4 Add this to make your status bar white Just right after the [self.window makeKeyAndVisible]; !!!

if ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] floatValue] >= 7.0) {
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent];
}