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

Apple released Technical Q&A QA1797: Preventing the Status Bar from Covering Your Views. It works fine for the iOS 6 and iOS 7 versions.

Answer 2

Try this simple method....

Step 1:To change in single viewController

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle: UIStatusBarStyleBlackOpaque];

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Step 2: To change in whole application

info.plist
      ----> Status Bar Style
                  --->UIStatusBarStyle to UIStatusBarStyleBlackOpaque

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Step 3: Also add this in each viewWillAppear to adjust statusbar height for iOS7

    [[UIApplication sharedApplication]setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent];
    if ([[UIDevice currentDevice].systemVersion floatValue] >= 7) {
        CGRect frame = [UIScreen mainScreen].bounds;
        frame.origin.y+=20.0;
        frame.size.height-= 20.0;
        self.view.frame = frame;
        [self.view layoutIfNeeded];
    }

Answer 3

Steps For Hide the status bar in iOS 7:

1.Go to your application info.plist file.

2.And Set, View controller-based status bar appearance : Boolean NO

Hope i solved the status bar issue.....

Answer 4

In order to continue working with setStatusBarHidden: I use this category:

@interface UIApplication (StatusBar)

-(void)setIOS7StatusBarHidden:(BOOL)statusBarHidden;

@end

@implementation UIApplication (StatusBar)

-(void)setIOS7StatusBarHidden:(BOOL)statusBarHidden{
    if (!IOS7) {
        [self setStatusBarHidden:statusBarHidden];
        return;
     }

    if ([self isStatusBarHidden] == statusBarHidden) {
        return;
    }

    [self setStatusBarHidden:statusBarHidden];
    [self keyWindow].clipsToBounds = YES;
    CGFloat offset = statusBarHidden ? 0 : 20;
    [self keyWindow].frame =  CGRectMake(0,offset,[self keyWindow].frame.size.width,[self keyWindow].frame.size.height-offset);
    [self keyWindow].bounds = CGRectMake(0, offset, [self keyWindow].frame.size.width,[self keyWindow].frame.size.height);
}

@end

Answer 5

This may be a overwhelming problem if you use Auto layout because you can not directly manipulate frames anymore. There is a simple solution without too much work.

I ended up writing an utility method in an Utility Class and called it from all the view controllers's viewDidLayoutSubviews Method.

+ (void)addStatusBarIfiOS7:(UIViewController *)vc
    {
        if (NSFoundationVersionNumber > NSFoundationVersionNumber_iOS_6_1) {
            CGRect viewFrame = vc.view.frame;
            if(viewFrame.origin.y == 20) {
                //If the view's y origin is already 20 then don't move it down.
                return;
            }
            viewFrame.origin.y+=20.0;
            viewFrame.size.height-= 20.0;
            vc.view.frame = viewFrame;
            [vc.view layoutIfNeeded];
        }
    }

Override your viewDidLayoutSubviews method in the view controller, where you want status bar. It will get you through the burden of Autolayout.

- (void)viewDidLayoutSubviews
{
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication]setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent];
    [super viewDidLayoutSubviews];
    [MyUtilityClass addStatusBarIfiOS7:self];
}

Answer 6

You can hide the status bar all together. So your app will be full-screen. I think that's the best you will get.

UIStatusBarStyleNone or set in the target settings.