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

Use the following code UIApplication.shared.isStatusBarHidden = true

this is the only thing that I found that is working in iOS11. you can write in didFinishLaunchingWithOptions or in 'viewWillAppear' of you BaseViewController Enjoy.

Answer 2

Although some implementations are cleaner such as:

UIApplication.shared.isStatusBarHidden = true

There are some weird clipping animations during transitions. Although more verbose, I prefer @MachTurtle's solution:

override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
        super.viewWillAppear(true)
        if let statusBar: UIView = UIApplication.shared.value(forKey: "statusBar") as? UIView{
        statusBar.isHidden = true
        }
}

override func viewWillDisappear(_ animated: Bool) {
    super.viewWillDisappear(true)
    let statusBar: UIView = UIApplication.shared.value(forKey: "statusBar") as! UIView
    statusBar.isHidden = false
}

Try it out, works great for me.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

Add this to your info.plist

<key>UIStatusBarHidden</key>
    <true/>

Answer 5

I was searching for it and the one work for me is

Swift 5

override var prefersStatusBarHidden: Bool {
  return true
 }

Answer 6

Try setting "View controller-based status bar appearance" flag in Info.plist to YES. This will force app to call prefersStatusBarHidden: Bool property on every view controller.