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

None of these worked for me either working on a converted project in iOS 11. Here's what I did. I added this code in the AppDelegate

func application(_ application: UIApplication,
    didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey : Any]? = nil) -> Bool
{
    application.isIdleTimerDisabled = true
    application.isStatusBarHidden = true
    return true
}