How to hide status bar of a single view controller in iOS 9?

Question

In a ViewController, which I presented modally, I did this:

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

This used

Answer 1

For Swift 3,

override var prefersStatusBarHidden: Bool{
        return true
    }

and add viewDidLoad()

self.modalPresentationCapturesStatusBarAppearance = true