How to hide a status bar in iOS?

Question

I can hide a status bar in my app:

- (void)viewDidLoad{
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES];
    [super viewDidLoad];
    }

When I chose my launch image and start it first time, it's status bar over a picture. How can I hide this?

I created a `BaseViewController` and added this code to it's `viewDidLoad`. This makes sure that I have it applied to all my view controllers. I also added `View controller-based status bar appearance` to `NO` under `Info` — Mahendra Liya, Nov 07 '13 at 14:18

Charan · Answer 1 · 2018-09-20T06:03:21.950

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You need to add this code in your AppDelegate file, not in your Root View Controller

Or add the property Status bar is initially hidden in your plist file

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Folks, in iOS 7+

please add this to your info.plist file, It will make the difference :)

UIStatusBarHidden UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance

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For iOS 11.4+ and Xcode 9.4 +

Use this code either in one or all your view controllers

override var prefersStatusBarHidden: Bool { return true }

edited Sep 20 '18 at 06:03

answered Sep 30 '12 at 12:02

Charan

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This is not working for me on iOS 11.4 + Xcode 9.4 beta. – Martin Braun Jun 15 '18 at 11:34

score 78 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 16 '13 at 18:42

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Add the following code to your view controller:

if ([self respondsToSelector:@selector(setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate)]) {
    // iOS 7
    [self performSelector:@selector(setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate)];
} else {
    // iOS 6
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES withAnimation:UIStatusBarAnimationSlide];
}

- (BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden {
    return YES;
}

edited Sep 16 '13 at 18:42

s1m0n

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answered Aug 14 '13 at 10:40

Hardik Darji

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Must add a key UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance to Infor.plist and set value to YES. Then can hide/show status bar. – user501836 Sep 28 '13 at 10:37
in what part of my view controller should I add the if-else statement? – acecapades Dec 01 '13 at 09:02
Hate iOS for this! Why do we need **cking Status Bar property in Simulated Metrics???? – Serge Velikan Oct 15 '14 at 18:30

score 64 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 17 '13 at 10:02

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What helped me is this (changing plist file):

set Status bar is initially hidden = YES
add row: View controller-based status bar appearance = NO

Hide StatusBar - plist settings

answered Dec 17 '13 at 10:02

Arkady

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score 42 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 23 '13 at 07:18

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Put this code to your view controller in which you hide status bar:

- (BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden {return YES;}

answered Sep 23 '13 at 07:18

Aleksandr Sis'ov

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beware, this will work on ios7 only: - (BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden NS_AVAILABLE_IOS(7_0); – Viren Mar 12 '14 at 04:13

Alex Markman · Answer 5 · 2013-10-02T17:37:39.523

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In iOS 7 status bar appearance depends on UIViewController as default. To hide status bar globally, in info.plist use NO value for UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance key and use UIApplication's setStatusBarHidden method with YES BOOL value.

edited Oct 02 '13 at 17:37

answered Aug 23 '13 at 22:51

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in my game bottom left has a white ball. How can I remove it? – zszen Aug 24 '13 at 09:25
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doesn't work when you are using a UIImagePickerController. It shows back the status bar whenever you show it and the statusbar doesn't hide back ever... – SarpErdag Aug 30 '13 at 15:55
Even the solution I gave doesn't work few times and I am assuming it as a bug. – Alex Markman Sep 11 '13 at 18:09
To hide the status bar, I used setStatusBarHidden = YES – Jon Oct 02 '13 at 16:51
@Jon The answer had YES, but the editor made a mistake I guess. – Alex Markman Oct 02 '13 at 17:38

score 11 · Answer 6 · answered Sep 23 '13 at 21:24

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add this key key from dropdownlist in "info.plist" and voila you will no more see top bar that includes elements something like GSM,wifi icon etc.
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answered Sep 23 '13 at 21:24

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Jaywant Khedkar · Answer 7 · 2019-10-18T07:11:45.460

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It's working for me ,

Add below code into the info.plist file ,

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

Hopes this is work for some one .

edited Oct 18 '19 at 07:11

answered May 12 '17 at 09:30

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score 1 · Answer 8 · answered Jun 24 '14 at 11:06

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In info.plist

View controller-based status bar appearance NO
Status bar is initially hidden YES

In view controller.m

- (BOOL) prefersStatusBarHidden
{
    return YES;
}

answered Jun 24 '14 at 11:06

jeet.chanchawat

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I wanted to have a handy note... I come to this link almost once in a week to copy code snippet... then I have to search all different answers. – jeet.chanchawat Jun 25 '14 at 09:59

score 1 · Answer 9 · answered Jul 21 '14 at 13:38

I am supporting iOS 5, 6, & 7. My app is iPad only. I needed to use all of the following:

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES];

View Controller:

- (BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden{ return YES; }

Info.plist

    <key>UIStatusBarHidden</key>
    <string>YES</string>

    <key>UIStatusBarHidden~ipad</key>
    <true/>

    <key>UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance</key>
    <string>NO</string>

score 0 · Answer 10 · edited Jan 16 '14 at 06:13

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Just check the box on Targets/Summary iPad Deployment Info and you status bar will disappear. It works on my apps.

edited Jan 16 '14 at 06:13

Charan

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answered Jul 08 '13 at 11:12

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On ios 7 and xcode 5, Take a look at this post, it saved my job. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18059703/cannot-hide-status-bar-in-ios7 – Marc Millet Oct 10 '13 at 09:26

score 0 · Answer 11 · edited Apr 20 '14 at 20:59

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I had the same problem, but its an easy fix! Just set

status bar is initially hidden = YES

then add an row by clicking on the plus right after the text status bar is initially hidden, then set the text to

view controller-based status bar appearance

by clicking the arrows, and set it to NO

Hope this helps!

edited Apr 20 '14 at 20:59

The Guy with The Hat

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answered Apr 20 '14 at 20:29

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score 0 · Answer 12 · answered May 15 '14 at 11:17

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Well the easiest way that I do it is by typing the following into the .m file.

- (BOOL) prefersStatusBarHidden
{
    return YES;
}

This should work!

answered May 15 '14 at 11:17

Trent

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Gaurav Gilani · Answer 13 · 2014-05-21T13:20:39.953

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

edited May 21 '14 at 13:20

answered May 21 '14 at 12:41

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This answer was flagged as low quality, can you please update your answer to describe why this works? – Daniel May 21 '14 at 13:03

score 0 · Answer 14 · answered May 26 '16 at 04:08

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A complete solution in swift, in your view controller

// you can use your own logic to determine if you need to hide status bar
// I just put a var here for now
var hideStatusBar = false
override func preferStatusBarHidden() -> Bool {
    return hideStatus
}


// in other method to manually toggle status bar
func updateUI() {
    hideStatusBar = true
    // call this method to update status bar
    prefersStatusBarHidden()
}

answered May 26 '16 at 04:08

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As of Xcode 8.1 there seems to be no function preferStatusBarHidden to override. Instead the line "let preferStatusBarHidden : Bool = true" in ViewController did it for me. Regards. – dezember Dec 11 '16 at 12:36

score 0 · Answer 15 · edited Dec 25 '21 at 19:55

To hide status bar for each individual view controller programmatically, use any of the following two procedures:

Procedure 1:

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

Procedure 2:

-(BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden {
    return YES;
}

To hide status bar for the entire application, we should follow the given below procedure:

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

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How to hide a status bar in iOS?

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