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

Have you already, on your info.plist file, added two new attributes if not present? Please try setting "Status bar is initially hidden" to "YES" and also set "UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance" to "NO". This will hide status bar for your app.