How do I hide the status bar in a Swift iOS app

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I d like to remove the status bar at the top of the screen   This does not work   func application  application  UIApplication  didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions  NSDictionary   - gt  Bool           application statusBarHidden   true         return true     I ve also tried   func application  application  UIApplication  didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions  NSDictionary   - gt  Bool       self window   UIWindow frame  UIScreen mainScreen   bounds       var controller   UIViewController       application statusBarHidden   true     controller setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate        var view   UIView frame  CGRectMake 0  0  320  568       view backgroundColor   UIColor redColor       controller view   view      var label   UILabel frame  CGRectMake 0  0  200  21       label center   CGPointMake 160  284      label textAlignment   NSTextAlignment Center     label text    Hello World      controller view addSubview label       self window  rootViewController   controller     self window  makeKeyAndVisible       return true

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Okay  so this become a problem for me since iOS 9 doesn t support any above the method people have mentioned here such as UIApplication sharedApplication   statusBarHidden   true  or   UIApplication sharedApplication   setStatusBarHidden true  withAnimation  UIStatusBarAnimation None    and  override func prefersStatusBarHidden   - gt  Bool        return true     works but does not provide programable solution where I can change on a condition   statusBarHidden   true and statusBarHidden   false as we have done before     Solution to this madness   By adding to prefersStatusBarHidden   like below you can programmatically control the hide and show of status bar without adding UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance setting to your info plist   var showStatusBar   true  override func prefersStatusBarHidden   - gt  Bool        if showStatusBar            return false             return true    private func showStatusBar enabled  Bool        showStatusBar   enabled     prefersStatusBarHidden       then use it like this throughout your code     Hide Status Bar showStatusBar false    OR    Show Status Bar showStatusBar true

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func application   application  UIApplication  didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions   UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey  Any    - gt  Bool           application isStatusBarHidden   true         return true

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I m using Xcode 8 1  8B62  with a deployment target set to 10 1 and I haven t had much luck with the override options mentioned above  However checking the  Hide status bar  option in Deployment Info did the trick for me   Project   General  I hope this helps

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If you want to hide and bring back the status bar on button tap  while at the time of presenting and dismissing slide-in menu  popups etc  then you can use this method -  To hide the status bar -  UIApplication shared keyWindow  windowLevel   UIWindowLevelStatusBar   To bring back the status bar -  UIApplication shared keyWindow  windowLevel   UIWindowLevelNormal

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If you are presenting the view controller modally  try  viewController hidesBottomBarWhenPushed   true viewController modalPresentationCapturesStatusBarAppearance   true

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Swift 5  In the main view controller  or main navigation controller if you have       override var preferredStatusBarStyle  UIStatusBarStyle           return  lightContent            override var prefersStatusBarHidden  Bool           return false         And  View controller-based status bar appearance  in plist must be YES  otherwise the above code will not be called   If you want to hide status bar when launching app    Status bar is initially hidden  in plist must be YES  This can prevent launch image from being distorted when extra blue bar showing on screen top

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Swift 3  In Info plist set View controller-based status bar appearance to NO  And call UIApplication shared isStatusBarHidden   true

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in Swift 4 2 it is a property now    override var prefersStatusBarHidden  Bool       return true

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A solution that works for me  if you want to hide the status bar on a specific view controller while loading   import UIKit  class ViewController  UIViewController    private var hideStatusBar  Bool   false  override var prefersStatusBarHidden  Bool       return hideStatusBar    override var preferredStatusBarUpdateAnimation  UIStatusBarAnimation       return UIStatusBarAnimation slide    override func viewDidLoad         super viewDidLoad        view backgroundcolor    white     hideStatusBar   true      UIView animate withDuration  0 3            self setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate             Attention  if you set the key  View controller-based status bar appearance  to  NO  in your info plist the code above doesn t work  You should set the key to  YES  or remove it from info plist

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Just to add  when overriding prefersStatusBarHidden method or variable  the View controller-based status bar appearance in Info plist must be YES  otherwise the override will have no effect

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In your project General- Deployment Info- Status bar style select check mark of Hide status bar  Note - it hides status bar throughout application

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Update for iOS 10   Swift 3 0  No longer a function  now a property      override var prefersStatusBarHidden  Bool       return true

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In my case  I was looking for the status bar to hide show on demand  instead of just when the view loads or disappears    swift 3 x    show status bar initially var showStatusBar   true    set the parameters override var prefersStatusBarHidden  Bool        if showStatusBar    true              does not prefer status bar hidden         print  does not prefer status bar hidden           return false        else              does prefer status bar hidden         print  does prefer status bar hidden       return true             ex  hide status bar and call parameter function again whenever you want         showStatusBar   false         setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate

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override func viewWillAppear animated  Bool        super viewWillAppear true       navigationController  navigationBar hidden   true    for navigation bar hide     UIApplication sharedApplication   statusBarHidden true     for status bar hide

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I actually figured this out myself  I ll add my solution as another option   extension UIViewController       func prefersStatusBarHidden   - gt  Bool           return true

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You really should implement prefersStatusBarHidden on your view controller s    Swift 3 and later  override var prefersStatusBarHidden  Bool       return true

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So the issue here actually has nothing to do with Swift but just how status bar appearance is handled as of iOS 7   By Default  view controllers individually control the appearance of the status bar when they are on the screen  If you want to use this method of controlling the status bar  you can override the following methods for whatever view controllers you d like to modify the appearance for   prefersStatusBarHidden  preferredStatusBarStyle  preferredStatusBarAnimation   In your case  you would just implement prefersStatusBarHidden and return true   The other way would be to control the status bar appearance at the application level  This seems to be what you re actually trying to do  by setting application statusBarHidden    In order to make this work  you need to open up your app s Info plist file and add the key UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance  and give it a value of NO

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in Swift 3 x   override func viewWillAppear   animated  Bool        UIApplication shared isStatusBarHidden   true

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For Swift 4  try the following code  tested on Swift 4 0  4 1 - IOS 10  11      override var prefersStatusBarHidden  Bool   return true    override func viewDidAppear   animated  Bool        super viewDidAppear animated         call this func to force preferredStatusBarStyle to be read again      setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate

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if you prefer a visual approach rather than coding it use this method  in your info plist   simply add View controller-based status bar appearance to NO  and Status bar is initially hidden as YES

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Swift 5   In my case  I need to update the status bar hidden based on some conditions    Because of this  I create a base controlller BaseViewController which contains new property hideStatusBar   Other view controllers are sub-class of this base controller  Finally when I want to update the status bar behavior  I only need to change this hideStatusBar value   class BaseViewController  UIViewController        var hideStatusBar  Bool   false           didSet               setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate                        override var prefersStatusBarHidden  Bool              return hideStatusBar           How to use  final class ViewController  BaseViewController  UIScrollViewDelegate       let scrollView   UIScrollView                 func scrollViewDidScroll   scrollView  UIScrollView            UIView animate withDuration  0 3                if scrollView contentOffset y  gt  100                   self hideStatusBar   true               else                   self hideStatusBar   false                                   Demo  Here is a demo  I m using UIView animate      to make the transition smoother

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In your Project- General- Deployment info   Statusbar Style --  just marked Hide status Bar iOS 10

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Swift 4    MARK - Show Status Bar UIApplication shared isStatusBarHidden   false    MARK - Hide Status Bar UIApplication shared isStatusBarHidden   true

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Go to Info plist file Hover on one of those lines and a     and  -  button will show up  Click the plus button to add new key Type in start with capital V and automatically the first choice will be View controller-based status bar appearance  Add that as the KEY  Set the VALUE to  NO  Go to you AppDelegate swift Add the code  inside the method  func application application  UIApplication  didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions   NSObject AnyObject    - gt  Bool       application statusBarHidden   true     return true      DONE  Run your app and no more status bar

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Updated for iOS 13 and Swift 5  If none of the above answers work for you  Check your plist to see if you have this    View controller-based status bar appearance   If so  be sure to set it to YES       Then the following code will work    override var prefersStatusBarHidden  Bool       return true

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You can use this code in your ViewController Class scope   open override var prefersStatusBarHidden  Bool   return true

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Go to your Info plist and add two Keys

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