How to hide the status bar programmatically in iOS 8

Question

Just like the question says, I need to hide status + navigation bar when user taps. So far, navigation bar was easy. Cann't find a way to do the same with status bar.

By the way, tried

UIApplication.sharedApplication().statusBarHidden = true

but no luck yet

Solution

You should add this key/value pair to your project's Info.plist.

<key>UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance</key>
<false/>

After that,calling

UIApplication.sharedApplication().statusBarHidden = true

or

UIApplication.sharedApplication().setStatusBarHidden(true, withAnimation: .Fade) // with animation option.

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Comments

[Oleg Popov]

i would like just to tell you Thanks!

[Codetard]

it's deprecated in iOS 9

[Greg]

@SatnamSync if you look at the date this answer was posted, you'll notice that iOS 9 was not yet released at that time. If you have a better answer, please feel free to answer this question yourself.