Remove rounded corners below UIStatusBarStyleBlackOpaque on iPhone running iOS 6

Question

Since iOS 6.0 the OS adds rounded corners below the statusbar with style UIStatusBarStyleBlackOpaque on the iPhone.

Is there a way to remove them?

Answer 1

Changing the statusbar style to UIStatusBarStyleBlackTranslucent removes the rounded corners. Having a black view behind it, it will look exactly the same like a statusbar with style UIStatusBarStyleBlackOpaque except of the rounded corners.

You can change the statusbar style using this code:

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleBlackTranslucent];