Iphone: Is it possible to hide the TabBar? (Pre-iOS 8)

Question

I have an application that uses a UITabBarController to switch between modes. When in a certain mode, I\'d like to hide the tab bar until the steps of that mode

Answer 1

See this thread:

Show/Hide TabBarController in iphone

In summary, you can see an example of this behavior in this sample code:

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/samplecode/TheElements/index.html