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

If for some reason you need View controller-based status bar appearance equal to YES (for example to keep status bar white)

on AppDelegate's didFinishLaunchingWithOptions method or wherever you setup your navigationController:

yourNavigationController.navigationBar.barStyle = .black

then use alex-staravoitau's awesome answer and add this code wherever you'll be hiding the status bar:

override var preferredStatusBarStyle: UIStatusBarStyle {
  return .lightContent
}

I'm not sure if this is the right way to achieve this result, but it worked for me and I hope it helps someone else too :)