FORCE HIDE STATUS BAR FOR IOS 7 AND 6

hide_status_bar

//viewDidload
   if ([self respondsToSelector:@selector(setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate)]) {
        // iOS 7
        [self prefersStatusBarHidden];
        [self performSelector:@selector(setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate)];
    } else {
        // iOS 6
        [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES withAnimation:UIStatusBarAnimationSlide];
    }


// Add this Method
- (BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden
{
    return YES;
}

For iOS 7 beta, only add this method to my root view controller, and it's worked

// Add this Method
- (BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden
{
return YES;
}

Nice, works perfect! thanks.

Any idea of how you would do this programatically within the app? If I want to hide and show the status bar on certain events?

*info.plist add key and value.
key is "View controller-based status bar appearance".
value is 'NO"
and *info.plist saved.
run.

@moohyu cool. thank you!

@moohyu Thanks it works fine for me.

@moohyu - do I need that in addition to the code above? I still have a white bar at the bottom of my app after trying this... thanks!

Thanks - helped me out a bunch!

This didn't work for me

didn't work!

Yeah not working for me yet either - there seems to be more variable(s) at play here or something. Ugh - I just want to hide the thing!

Also - anyone have any luck getting something like this applied to the InAppBrowser webview? Seems like that status bar is obeying a different set of rules. At first stab these snippets don't seem to work on the CDVInAppBrowser.m file.