I am trying to hide the statusbar but maintain the \"bigger\" navigationbar height. Right now when I hide the statusbar by setting - (BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden
to
You can create a custom UIView with its frame as
customView.frame=CGRectMake(0, 20, self.view.frame.size.width, self.view.frame.size.height);
Also hide your status bar by following the below steps
Go to info.plist and add two attributes if not present. set "Status bar is initially hidden" to YES
and set UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance
to NO
. This will hide status bar for your app.