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

You can achieve this by simply overriding prefersStatusBarHidden property in your ViewController as shown below :

override var prefersStatusBarHidden: Bool {
   return true
}

This works for Swift 3/4.