setStatusBarHidden not working

Question

In my UIViewController, I have:

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
    [super viewWillAppear:animated];
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES withAnimation:UIStatusBarAnimationNone];
    [self.view sizeToFit];
}

Yet the view looks like this:

I'm sure this code runs. I load the view from a xib. I haven't done anything else to the status bar like change its style. What could be wrong?

Even when I set `application.statusBarHidden = YES" in my app delegate, I see:

Answer 1

In your app's plist, if you have "View controller-based status bar appearance" set to YES, put this code in the view controller in which you hide the status bar:

- (BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden {     return YES; } 

Else if "View controller-based status bar appearance" is set to NO, call the following whenever you want to hide the status bar.

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

Answer 2

if you want to hide Status Bar in your app , Follow this steps :

Step 1 :

Step 2:

Step 3:

Add to your appDelegate didFinishLaunchingWithOptions function

application.statusBarHidden = YES; 

so :

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {       application.statusBarHidden = YES; } 

Answer 3

That's because iOS 7 has changed the way it deals with the status bar.

Setting UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance to NO on your app Info.plist should work.