Is there a way to hide “Back to Safari” from status bar in iOS9?

Question

How to hide this < Back to Safari from status bar programmatically?

Answer 1

No, there is no API that lets you do this.

Answer 2

You can achieve this by forwarding to a website with a forward back to your app. The following steps allows you to hide the 'Back to Safari' in the status bar, MyApp is the example app name:

1. Add your application URL Scheme to the Info.plist

   <key>LSApplicationQueriesSchemes</key>
   <array>
       <string>myapp</string>
   </array>
   

2. Setup a custom URL forward on a website (e.g. http://example.com/myapp)

   _redirect_rule_from /myapp
   _redirect_rule_to myapp://
   

3. In your authorization method closure hit the forward you created in step 2

   - (void)willLoginWithFacebook
   {
      __weak __typeof(self) weakSelf = self;
   
      [self.view setUserInteractionEnabled:NO];
      [self.sessionManager authenticateViaFacebookWithCompletion:^(NSString *token, NSSet *grantedPermissions,
       NSError *error) {
   
   if (error) {
       if (error.code != myappErrorCodeCancelled) {
           [weakSelf.rootViewController presentError:error];
       }
   }
   else {
       [weakSelf authorizeWithFacebookToken:token];
       NSString *customURL = @"myapp://";
   
       if ([[UIApplication sharedApplication]
            canOpenURL:[NSURL URLWithString:customURL]])
       {
           NSString *stringURL = @"http://example.com/myapp";
           NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:stringURL];
           [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:url];
       }
       else
       {
           UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"URL error"
                                                           message:[NSString stringWithFormat:
                                                                    @"No custom URL defined for %@", customURL]
                                                          delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"Ok" 
                                                 otherButtonTitles:nil];
           [alert show];
       }
      };
   
    }];
   
   }