setStatusBarHidden deprecated, but only thing that works

Question

I\'ve tried all the solutions I can find including those in: setStatusBarHidden is deprecated in iOS 9.0 but none of them work with my application.

It is a simple, single

Answer 1

I am not an expert on this, but I played with these settings for some time and came to the following conclusions.

General/Deployment Info: Status Bar Style: Default (black), Light Hide status bar (checkbox) Both change the status bar on the launch screen only. Note that if you take a screen shot to create this image and the screen shot included a status bar, it will appear that the device is setting the status bar even if you have checked the Hide status bar checkbox! I was tricked by this for a while before I finally thought to look at the launch image itself, and there was a status bar in the photo, so setting Hide never seemed to work even though it really was working. I removed the status bar from the images themselves using Photoshop, and the launch status bars functioned as expected after that.

Info/Custom iOS Target Properties (these change the values in the PLIST, so you could change them in either place): Status Bar Is Initially Hidden: Yes/No Status Bar Style: Gray (default), Transparent Black, Opaque Black View Controller based status bar appearance : Yes/No If you set Status Bar Is Initially Hidden to No, then you will have the status bar on your View Controller like you wanted. If you want to hide the status bar on your View Controller, you have to set Status Bar Is Initially Hidden to Yes AND set View Controller based status bar appearance to No.

Attributes Inspector for the View Controller/Simulated Metrics Status Bar: None, Inferred, Default, Light, Black (deprecated) This seems to have no effect on anything except the appearance of the view controllers in the StoryBoard but NOT in the simulator.

Summary: To answer your question, under General Deployment Info, check the checkbox that says Hide Status Bar. This will hide the status bar on the launch screen. Make certain that your image for the launch screen does NOT have a picture of a status bar in it. None of the settings in the StoryBoard or in the Target seems to turn off the view controller's status bar, so it seems that it will stay on like you wanted. However, I did not test any of the programmatic settings; I think that you should not do any of those, and it will work the way you want.