setStatusBarHidden deprecated, but only thing that works

Question

I\'ve tried all the solutions I can find including those in: setStatusBarHidden is deprecated in iOS 9.0 but none of them work with my application.

It is a simple, single

Answer 1

I've just been trying to solve the same problem, I don't know why the setStatusBarHidden and setStatusBarStyle have been deprecated as the new methods are not at all intuitive.

To hide the status bar on launch I have these settings in my plist:

View controller-based status bar appearance: YES
Status bar is initially hidden: YES

Then to show the status bar after launch I have in my view controller:

- (BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden {    
    return NO;
}

-(UIStatusBarStyle)preferredStatusBarStyle {
    return UIStatusBarStyleLightContent;
}

This still didn't work until I found this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/19365160/488611. So in viewDidLoad I also set the navigation bar style:

self.navigationController.navigationBar.barStyle = UIBarStyleBlackTranslucent;

Which makes absolutely no sense, but works.