On iOS8, displaying my app in landscape mode will hide the status bar but on iOS 7 the status bar is displayed on both orientations

Question

I want the status bar to be displayed in both orientations in iOS 8; it\'s being displayed properly in iOS 7.

navigationController.isNavigationBarHidden

Answer 1

To display status bar in landscape mode in ios 8, try following method

- (BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden {
    return NO;
}

Swift version

override func prefersStatusBarHidden() -> Bool {
    return false
}

Swift 3, Xcode 8, iOS 10, /* ViewController.swift */

override var prefersStatusBarHidden: Bool {
        return false
    }