Status bar won't go away on scaled up version of iOS 7 app

Question

I have tried everything suggested here: Status bar won't disappear to no avail.

My iPhone version of my app has no status bar shown, but on my iPad,

Answer 1

For 2016 onwards all you do is:

Add these two items to your plist:

UIStatusBarHidden

UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance

1. It is that simple

2. There is no other method.

(Note - there's a (pointless) "hide status bar" checkbox in "general settings" "deployment info" section. This simply reads the plist file, it's a completely pointless checkbox.)

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