iOS 7 status bar back to iOS 6 default style in iPhone app?

Question

In iOS 7 the UIStatusBar has been designed in a way that it merges with the view like this:

Answer 1

As using presentViewController:animated:completion: messed-up the window.rootViewController.view, I had to find a different approach to this issue. I finally got it to work with modals and rotations by subclassing the UIView of my rootViewController.

.h

@interface RootView : UIView

@end

.m

@implementation RootView

-(void)setFrame:(CGRect)frame
{
    if (self.superview && self.superview != self.window)
    {
        frame = self.superview.bounds;
        frame.origin.y += 20.f;
        frame.size.height -= 20.f;
    }
    else
    {
        frame = [UIScreen mainScreen].applicationFrame;
    }

    [super setFrame:frame];
}

- (void)layoutSubviews
{
    self.frame = self.frame;

    [super layoutSubviews];
}

@end

You now have a strong workaround for iOS7 animations.