iOS 7 status bar back to iOS 6 default style in iPhone app?

Question

In iOS 7 the UIStatusBar has been designed in a way that it merges with the view like this:

Answer 1

My very simple solution (assuming you have only vertical orientation supported) is to redefine application window bounds for iOS versions below 7, in App delegate didFinishLaunchingWithOptions method:

CGRect screenBounds = [[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds];
if ([HMService getIOSVersion] < 7) {
    // handling statusBar (iOS6) by leaving top 20px for statusbar.
    screenBounds.origin.y = 20;
    self.window = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:screenBounds];
}
else {
    self.window = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:screenBounds];
}