hide status bar swift 4

Question

I am trying to hide status bar in one of my UIViewControllers (Swift 4).

• Firstly, I set View controller-based status bar appearance to

Answer 1

You probably found your own solution to this already, but I got it working this way:

override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
    // Sets the status bar to hidden when the view has finished appearing
    let statusBar: UIView = UIApplication.shared.value(forKey: "statusBar") as! UIView
    statusBar.isHidden = true
}

override func viewWillDisappear(_ animated: Bool) {
    // Sets the status bar to visible when the view is about to disappear
    let statusBar: UIView = UIApplication.shared.value(forKey: "statusBar") as! UIView
    statusBar.isHidden = false
}