Xcode Hide white status bar ios 10

Question

I want white status bar in my app. For this I set View controller-based status bar appearance to NO and Status bar style to UIStatusBarStyleLightContent. But now I need to hide status bar in some view controllers. To hide it I have to set View controller-based status bar appearance to YES and add - (BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden {return YES;}. But status bar is black now. It's black when View controller-based status bar appearance is YES and white if NO. So the question is, how to set white status bar and hide it?

UPD: code in VC that I want to have white status bar (prefferdSTatusBarStyle not called)

code in VC with hidden status bar

.plist settings

Result is black status bar, that hides in some VC

UPD2:

I know it's bad to use deprecated methods but with [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES]; everything works as I want. If anyone have better solution please let me know.

you have to display "UIStatusBarStyleLightContent" in every viewcontroller of your project? — Birendra, Jan 16 '17 at 07:05
Possible duplicate of [How to hide a status bar in iOS?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12661031/how-to-hide-a-status-bar-in-ios) — Jake Chasan, Jul 11 '19 at 15:14

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 16 '17 at 07:02

This is the swift version:

To hide the status bar or change it's appearance, you need to override the following properties in your view controller itself

override var prefersStatusBarHidden: Bool{
        return true
}

the above hides the status bar and below if you want to set it to white:

override var preferredStatusBarStyle: UIStatusBarStyle {
        return .lightContent
}

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 16 '17 at 07:23

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In your plist file add View controller-based status bar appearance Bool property and set it to YES.

Now in your view controller add the methods like below:

// TO MAKE STATUS BAR WHITE
override func preferredStatusBarStyle() -> UIStatusBarStyle {
        return .LightContent
}

// TO MAKE STATUS BAR BLACK
override func preferredStatusBarStyle() -> UIStatusBarStyle {
        return .LightContent
}

// RETURN TRUE TO HIDE AND FALSE TO SHOW STATUS BAR
override func prefersStatusBarHidden() -> Bool {
        return true
}

For Objective-C

- (BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden {
    return NO;
}

-(UIStatusBarStyle)preferredStatusBarStyle {
    return UIStatusBarStyleLightContent;
}

For removing redundant code you can make a BaseViewController as subclass of UIViewController and add the methods in that class. And override the method in the class which requires change.

answered Jan 16 '17 at 07:23

Parth Adroja

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don't know what wrong but when I do this I have black status bar and `preferredStatusBarStyle` not called. `prefersStatusBarHidden` works – Ossir Jan 16 '17 at 07:50
@Ossir Did you set the bool to YES in plist? – Parth Adroja Jan 16 '17 at 07:52
yes. `prefersStatusBarHidden` works and `preferredStatusBarStyle` no – Ossir Jan 16 '17 at 07:53
@Ossir Make sure that method is not getting override from anywhere else? – Parth Adroja Jan 16 '17 at 07:55
yes. I searched it in my project and have only one result – Ossir Jan 16 '17 at 07:57
@Ossir Are you using navigation controller? – Parth Adroja Jan 16 '17 at 07:59
I have UITabBarController as root VC – Ossir Jan 16 '17 at 08:00
it's exactly like in your post. I will update my question – Ossir Jan 16 '17 at 08:09
@Ossir http://stackoverflow.com/a/31129671/4715546 check the link i know i am late for reply but have a look once. – Parth Adroja Jan 16 '17 at 09:26

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 16 '17 at 07:01

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if your viewcontroller is embedded in UInavigationController then try writing this code in your

-(BOOL)prefreStatusBarHidden
{
       return [self.navigationController prefersStatusBarHidden];
}

answered Jan 16 '17 at 07:01

Nishant Tiwari

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 16 '17 at 07:09

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you can set using xcode status bar style is "light"

answered Jan 16 '17 at 07:09

Birendra

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you have do any changes in info.plist file for status bar ? – Birendra Jan 16 '17 at 07:40
only `View controller-based status bar appearance` set to `YES` and `Status bar style` set to `UIStatusBarStyleLightContent`. but status bar is black now – Ossir Jan 16 '17 at 07:48
you have to set View controller-based status bar appearance set to "NO" – Birendra Jan 16 '17 at 07:51
if I set in to `NO` I will not be able to hide status bar with `prefersStatusBarHidden` – Ossir Jan 16 '17 at 07:55
you have try this code ? - (UIStatusBarStyle)preferredStatusBarStyle { return UIStatusBarStyleLightContent; } – Birendra Jan 16 '17 at 07:59
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/133245/discussion-between-birendra-and-ossir). – Birendra Jan 16 '17 at 08:02

score -1 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 16 '17 at 07:15

You can do this by setting the navigation background image in your base viewcontroller.

UIImage *bgImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"bg_navigationbar"];
[self.navigationController.navigationBar setBackgroundImage:bgImage forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];

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