Hide Status Bar In iOS 8 app

Question

I have tried

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES]; 

This does nothing.

And I have looked in my Info.pli

Answer 1

You can hide the status bar without writing a single line of code, it just requires two entries into the info.plist the first is

"View controller-based status bar appearance" set to NO

the second is

"Status bar is initially hidden" set to YES