IOS7 Status bar hide/show on select controllers

Question

I would like to show and hide the Status bar on some controllers. Can this be done or is it more of an overall app setting.

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Answer 1

On iOS 7 and later, just implement -prefersStatusBarHidden, for example in a UIViewController that should hide the status bar:

- (BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden {
    return YES;
}

The default is NO.