prefersStatusBarHidden issue in iOS 13

Question

Hi everyone I'm trying to hide my statusBar in a View Controller but it doesn't seem to work .. I used the function:

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 override var prefersStatusBarHidden: Bool {
         return true
    }

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I also set the View controller-based status bar appearance in the plist file to YES

My status bar doesn't want to hide ... where am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

It looks like you're trying to specifically hide the status bar in a single ViewController.

In order to do that, you need have the following in that ViewController

self.modalPresentationCapturesStatusBarAppearance = true

override var prefersStatusBarHidden: Bool {
      return true
}

I also added View controller-based status bar appearance in my .plist and set it to YES.

Tested on the latest iOS 13.