How to hide iOS status bar

Question

In my iOS video app status bar is hidden in some view controllers. I have done this using following code.

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES];

It works for iOS 5 and iOS 6 , but not in iOS 7.
I tried with this in particular view controller,

Eg:

-(BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden { return YES; }

It works well, but I cant show status bar again in the parent view controller.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18059703/cannot-hide-status-bar-in-ios7 — Melih Büyükbayram, Oct 24 '13 at 15:37
If the status bar style is set in the Storyboard, after changing the "View controller-based status bar" (below), the style may have to be set in the plist because the view controller setting will no longer be used. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18924345/how-to-change-status-bar-style-during-launch-on-ios-7 — Matt, Aug 13 '14 at 00:48
I answered in another question. Try this. [ the easiest way to hide status bar programmatically][1] [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/a/27339754/3718498 — wataru, Dec 07 '14 at 05:01
I used a trick for it – I published it as pod https://cocoapods.org/pods/UIViewController+ODStatusBar, I hope it will be useful for anyone — Alex Nazarsky, Jun 26 '15 at 10:15
The answers here have now been deprecated. I had trouble finding the correct answer for iOS 9 when hiding the status bar **FOR JUST THE LAUNCH SCREEN**, so linking below so it's hopefully easier for others to find how to do that: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34413848/cant-hide-status-bar-on-launch — Ben, Jul 11 '16 at 04:37

Rajneesh071 · Answer 1 · 2014-04-23T04:22:30.377

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You should add this value to plist: "View controller-based status bar appearance" and set it to "NO".

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edited Apr 23 '14 at 04:22

answered Sep 24 '13 at 11:49

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For reference, raw key is `UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance` – William Denniss Oct 10 '13 at 09:11
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@Rajneesh071 What i need do if i want set preferredStatusBarStyle for work it i need `"View controller-based status bar appearance" set it to "YES".` ? – Bimawa Jan 18 '14 at 10:34
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https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/userexperience/conceptual/transitionguide/AppearanceCustomization.html – Rajneesh071 Feb 06 '14 at 08:40
what issue are you facing? – Rajneesh071 Apr 23 '14 at 04:37
seems deprecated, will breaks your app – Ben Sep 29 '15 at 12:25
It's deprecated from iOS 9.0 – Jakub Oct 01 '15 at 12:59
For me, it needed to be coupled with application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions{application.statusBarHidden = YES;} - saw this on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32965610/hide-the-status-bar-in-ios-9 – smileham Oct 30 '15 at 00:50
it will working but i get warning like this check out below link..http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31872650/how-can-i-set-cg-context-show-backtrace-environmental-variable – abdul sathar Dec 19 '15 at 07:03

Shekhar Gupta · Answer 2 · 2013-12-16T15:50:07.483

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Add the following to your Info.plist:

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

edited Dec 16 '13 at 15:50

answered Dec 12 '13 at 06:42

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score 114 · Answer 3 · edited Sep 03 '14 at 07:37

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Add following line in viewdidload

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

and add new method

  - (BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden {
          return YES;
  }

also change info.plist file View controller-based status bar appearance" = NO

its works for me

edited Sep 03 '14 at 07:37

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answered Nov 22 '13 at 13:26

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Thanx this one working for me but I need to add below row in plist also. "View controller-based status bar appearance" = NO i,e Add following line in viewdidload [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES withAnimation:UIStatusBarAnimationFade]; and add new method - (BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden { return YES; } Add "View controller-based status bar appearance" = NO in Plist file – sandy Dec 20 '13 at 12:30
`prefersStatusBarHidden` is what did the trick for me (whether with this solution of with other similar ones) – Abdo May 11 '15 at 13:28

score 34 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 17 '13 at 07:08

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In the Plist add the following properties.

Status bar is initially hidden = YES

View controller-based status bar appearance = NO

now the status bar will hidden.

answered Oct 17 '13 at 07:08

Gurumoorthy Arumugam

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Raw keys would be UIStatusBarHidden and UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance – leolobato Nov 27 '13 at 20:40

Rajesh Loganathan · Answer 5 · 2016-07-22T04:05:10.930

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Try this simple method:

Objective-C:

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

- (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated
{
    [super viewWillDisappear:animated]
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:NO withAnimation:UIStatusBarAnimationNone];
}

Swift:

override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) 
{
    super.viewWillAppear(animated)
    UIApplication.sharedApplication().setStatusBarHidden(true, withAnimation: UIStatusBarAnimation.None)
}

override func viewWillDisappear(animated: Bool) 
{
    super.viewWillDisappear(animated)
    UIApplication.sharedApplication().setStatusBarHidden(false, withAnimation: UIStatusBarAnimation.None)
}

edited Jul 22 '16 at 04:05

answered Jan 21 '14 at 12:25

Rajesh Loganathan

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This was a wonderful answer! Also try it with the various `UIStatusBarAnimation`s, they're pretty great. – VedTopkar Jul 25 '14 at 01:14
Don't forget `[super viewWillAppear:animated]` and `[super viewWillDisappear:animated]` – SamB Jul 22 '16 at 01:35
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This simple solution worked for me iOS 10. Way to be simple man! – coolcool1994 Jan 06 '17 at 04:05
'setStatusBarHidden:withAnimation:' is deprecated: first deprecated in iOS 9.0 - Use -[UIViewController prefersStatusBarHidden] – snibbe Aug 24 '20 at 00:23

score 14 · Answer 6 · answered Nov 08 '14 at 07:36

I did the following and it seems to work (even in iOS 8):

- (void)navigationController:(UINavigationController *)navigationController willShowViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController animated:(BOOL)animated
{
    if ([self respondsToSelector:@selector(setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate)]) {

        [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES];
    }
}

- (BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden {
    return YES;
}

score 13 · Answer 7 · answered Dec 21 '15 at 23:48

UIApplication.setStatusBarX are deprecated as of iOS9
It's deprecated to have UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance=NO in your info.plist
So we should be using preferredStatusBarX in all our view controllers

But it gets more interesting when there's a UINavigationController involved:

If navigationBarHidden = true, the child UIViewController's preferredStatusBarX are called, since the child is displaying the content under the status bar.
If navigationBarHidden = false, the UINavigationController's preferredStatusBarX are called, after all it is displaying the content under the status bar.
The UINavigationController's default preferredStatusBarStyle uses the value from UINav.navigationBar.barStyle. .Default = black status bar content, .Black = white status bar content.
So if you're setting barTintColor to some custom colour (which you likely are), you also need to set barStyle to .Black to get white status bar content. I'd set barStyle to black before setting barTintColor, in case barStyle overrides the barTintColor.
An alternative is that you can subclass UINavigationController rather than mucking around with bar style.
HOWEVER, if you subclass UINavigationController, you get no control over the status bar if navigationBarHidden = true. Somehow UIKit goes direct to the child UIViewController without asking the UINavigationController in this situation. I would have thought it should be the UINavigationController's responsibility to ask the child >shrugs<.
And modally displayed UIViewController's only get a say in the status bar if modalPresentationStyle = .FullScreen.
If you've got a custom presentation style modal view controller and you really want it to control the status bar, you can set modalPresentationCapturesStatusBarAppearance = true.

Why can't apple just follow one piece of advice? If it isn't broken, don't fix it! — Jargen89, Apr 26 '16 at 15:37

score 9 · Answer 8 · answered Nov 11 '13 at 12:02

To hide status bar in iOS7 you need 2 lines of code

in application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions write
```
 [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES];
```

in info.plist add this

 View-Controller Based Status Bar Appearance = NO

score 8 · Answer 9 · answered Sep 02 '14 at 17:56

For better understanding add some photos with comments:

App before any changes

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Found in your Project Navigator folder named Supporting Files and click on *.plist file

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After you will get different setting of your app showed. You need to add 2 keys UIStatusBarHidden and UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance. You can do this simply clicking on + button

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After pressing + you can choose one of the key - just start to type.

Correct version:

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And finally application after applying this changes:

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Also, you can find alternative solution here

score 8 · Answer 10 · answered Feb 14 '17 at 14:14

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In iOS10 all I needed to do is override the prefersStatusBarHidden var in my RootViewController (Swift):

override var prefersStatusBarHidden: Bool {
    return true
}

answered Feb 14 '17 at 14:14

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Kemal Can Kaynak · Answer 11 · 2013-11-06T19:07:20.823

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Try that;

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

edited Nov 06 '13 at 19:07

answered Nov 03 '13 at 12:45

Kemal Can Kaynak

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Great. I was able to use this to hide the status bar on the view controller it wasn't needed on then unhide it once the user logged in. – LondonGuy Oct 05 '14 at 06:28

Jerry Chong · Answer 12 · 2019-07-21T15:32:58.590

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Swift 5

Use following steps to hide iOS Status Bar:

Open on Info.plist.
Add new key View controller-based status bar appearance and value set to NO.
Add new key Status bar is initially hidden and value set to YES.
Re-compile project.
Status bar should hidden on iOS phone now.

Final Settings Screenshot:

This is working on Xcode 10.2

edited Jul 21 '19 at 15:32

answered Jul 15 '19 at 08:32

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this worked for me even when using swiftui (when .statusbar modifier did nothing) – Benjamin B. Aug 16 '20 at 19:06

score 5 · Answer 13 · edited Nov 27 '13 at 14:11

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To hide your status bar in iOS7:

Open Your plist-file, then add a add a row called "View controller-based status bar appearance" and set its value to NO.

edited Nov 27 '13 at 14:11

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score 5 · Answer 14 · edited Nov 05 '15 at 23:06

Here is the Swift version (pre iOS9):

override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) {
    super.viewWillAppear(animated)
    UIApplication.sharedApplication().setStatusBarHidden(true, withAnimation: UIStatusBarAnimation.None)
}

override func viewWillDisappear(animated: Bool) {
    super.viewWillDisappear(animated)
    UIApplication.sharedApplication().setStatusBarHidden(false, withAnimation: UIStatusBarAnimation.None)
}

This also works (iOS7+):

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

You also need to call:

setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate()

in say viewDidLoad().

Note that if you use a SplitView controller, or some other container view controller, you also need to have it return your class when its sent childViewControllerForStatusBarHidden. One way to do this is have a public weak var for say statusController, and return it in this overridden method.

The top block is deprecated in iOS8 - use your second approach. And thanks! I edited the code to add another mandatory call. — David H, Nov 05 '15 at 22:30

Ketan P · Answer 15 · 2016-11-30T11:43:28.297

iOS 9 onwards :

As statusBarHidden method was Deprecated from iOS9 you need to add two values in plist as below :

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

or by User Interface Please refre below image :

As statusBarHidden is Deprecated from iOS9 :

@property(readwrite, nonatomic,getter=isStatusBarHidden) BOOL statusBarHidden NS_DEPRECATED_IOS(2_0, 9_0, "Use -[UIViewController prefersStatusBarHidden]") __TVOS_PROHIBITED;

score 5 · Answer 16 · answered May 09 '17 at 14:18

FIXED SOLUTION FOR SWIFT 3+ (iOS 9, 10)

1- In info.plist set below property

2- Paste below code to Root controller , To

 private var isStatusBarHidden = true {
        didSet {
            setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate()
        }
    }

    override var prefersStatusBarHidden: Bool {
        return isStatusBarHidden
    }

You can call isStatusBarHidden = true and isStatusBarHidden = false where you want to hide/show status bar

score 4 · Answer 17 · answered Sep 22 '14 at 13:02

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You should add this value to plist: "View controller-based status bar appearance" and set it to "NO".

answered Sep 22 '14 at 13:02

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score 4 · Answer 18 · answered Mar 11 '16 at 14:54

Steps for hide status bar in iOS
1. open AppDelegate.m file, add application.statusBarHidden in didFinishLaunchingWithOptions method

 - (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {
    // Override point for customization after application launch.
    application.statusBarHidden = YES;
    return YES;
    }

open info.plist and set

View controller-based status bar appearance set NO

Tony · Answer 19 · 2014-02-10T07:51:27.307

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From UIKit>UIApplication.h:

// Setting statusBarHidden does nothing if your application is using the default UIViewController-based status bar system.
@property(nonatomic,getter=isStatusBarHidden) BOOL statusBarHidden;
- (void)setStatusBarHidden:(BOOL)hidden withAnimation:(UIStatusBarAnimation)animation NS_AVAILABLE_IOS(3_2);

So should set View controller-based status bar appearance to NO

edited Feb 10 '14 at 07:51

answered Dec 06 '13 at 09:12

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smileBot · Answer 20 · 2015-01-19T03:06:40.933

To answer the Susitha's question: use setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate. This will make a call to prefersStatusBarHidden to refresh with your desired status bar state. Try this:

    @property (nonatomic, getter=isHideStatusBar) BOOL hideStatusBar; // Give this a default value early

    - (BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden {
        return self.isHideStatusBar;
    }

    - (void)someMethod {
    // triggered by an event or user action
    [self setHideStatusBar:YES];
    [self setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate];
    }

If you want to see the status bar again, set your property hideStatusBar (or whatever you call it) to NO. Call preferStatusBarHidden indirectly by making another call to

[self setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate]

score 1 · Answer 21 · answered Feb 19 '17 at 14:40

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Update for Swift 3:

Update Info.plist with the following info:

View controller-based status bar appearance: NO

Then, in a ViewController or elsewhere:

UIApplication.shared.isStatusBarHidden = true

answered Feb 19 '17 at 14:40

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How to hide iOS status bar

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Try this simple method:

Objective-C:

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