Why is the Status Bar STILL showing during Default.png?

Question

I\'m pretty sure that I\'ve taken all steps to correctly set my status bar to hidden. I did this in both the info.plist file (setting a UIStatusBarHidden to a boolean TRUE) as w

Answer 1

I was seeing a similar problem on an iPod Touch 2G (3.1.3), where a black rectangle - same dimensions as the status bar - was showing above the default.png.

The solution to this problem involved making the default.png image 320x480 as opposed to its original 640x960. The exact solution was to make a default@2x.png using the larger dimensions.