Hide the status bar in ios 9

Question

How do you hide the status bar in ios 9?

This is now deprecated:

 [UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES];

Answer 1

An easy approach would be to set the windowLevel of the Application to be either normal or statusBar based on your needs, so to start

Objective-C

To Hide the Status Bar

 UIApplication.sharedApplication.keyWindow.windowLevel = UIWindowLevelStatusBar;

To Show the Status Bar

 UIApplication.sharedApplication.keyWindow.windowLevel = UIWindowLevelNormal;

Also add the Key (View controller-based status bar appearance) with boolean value NO.