Dynamically hiding status bar

Question

I want to hide the status bar at the click of a button. I have tried:

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

I have had no luck with this. Am I missing something?

Possible duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18059703/cannot-hide-status-bar-in-ios7 and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19067899/how-to-hide-the-status-bar-in-programmatically-in-ios-7 — Aaron, Sep 05 '14 at 21:09
Check out this answer for a way to make it change when you want: http://stackoverflow.com/a/18856079/772156 — hukir, Sep 05 '14 at 22:53

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 05 '14 at 21:09

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The simple way is, go to the info.plist file. add row, "View controller-based status bar appearance" and set to NO. Check as an answer

answered Sep 05 '14 at 21:09

Frans Raharja Kurniawan

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 11 '18 at 12:38

For toggling on and off in code only:

-(void)statusBarShouldHide:(bool)hide{

    hideStatusBar = hide;
    if ([self respondsToSelector:@selector(setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate)]) {
        [self performSelector:@selector(setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate)];
    }
}
-(bool)prefersStatusBarHidden{
    return hideStatusBar;
}

called by:

[self statusBarShouldHide:true];

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 27 '17 at 16:31

if you wanna do this programmingly try this.

override the funtion

-(BOOL) prefersStatusBarHidden {
    return needHideStatusBar;
}

-(IBAction) checkStatus {

    // do your judgment here 

    needHideStatusBar = YES;
    if ([self 
        respondsToSelector:@selector(setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate)]) {
        [self performSelector:@selector(setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate)];
    }
}

Dynamically hiding status bar

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