hide status bar swift 4

Question

I am trying to hide status bar in one of my UIViewControllers (Swift 4).

• Firstly, I set View controller-based status bar appearance to

Answer 1

I discovered that prefersStatusBarHidden wasn't being called in my view controller because I was using a custom container view and I needed to forward the status bar hiding responsibility to the child view controller. Implementing var childForStatusBarHidden: UIViewController? { return childViewController } in the container view controller fixed if for me.