iOS 7 status bar overlaps camera controls on UIImagePickerController

Question

I\'ve tried setting the Info.plist \'View controller-based status bar appearance\' to NO, I\'ve tried calling

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBar         


        

Answer 1

If you want to keep ViewController-Based Status Bar Appearance, subclass UIImagePickerController and override prefersStatusBarHidden and childViewControllerForStatusBarHidden.

@interface NoStatusBarImagePickerController : UIImagePickerController
@end

@implementation NoStatusBarImagePickerController

- (BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden {
  return YES;
}

- (UIViewController *)childViewControllerForStatusBarHidden {
  return nil;
}

@end

Answer 2

Try this :

- (void)navigationController:(UINavigationController *)navigationController     willShowViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController animated:(BOOL)animated
{
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES];
}

in your appDelegate.

Answer 3

you should leave the

-(BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden{ 
  return YES;
}

and also add this

-(void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
    ...
    [self setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate];
    ...
}

Answer 4

There's an additional setting you need to turn on, starting in iOS 7. In your app's Info.plist, add a line for View controller-based status bar appearance, a Boolean, and set it to NO.

Answer 5

I think the answer to this question is "This is an iOS 7 bug". None of the methods here helped in our case, and several people have tried to fix this now.

I can't say what steps to reproduce this, but I've seen enough people out there with the same issue, that I think it's safe to say that this is in fact an iOS 7 bug. Most people can fix this problem with the multiple methods listed above. Rarely though, you can't fix it that way. I hope if you are reading this, you are not also one of those people.

Answer 6

This is what worked for me:

@implementation ViewController {
    BOOL hideStatusBar;
}

- (void)showCamera {
    UIImagePickerController *camera = [[UIImagePickerController alloc] init];
    camera.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationCurrentContext;
    camera.sourceType = UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera;
    camera.delegate = self;

     hideStatusBar = YES;
    [self setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate];
    [self presentViewController:camera animated:YES completion:nil];
}

-(BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden{
    return hideStatusBar;
}