Issue of status bar which is getting hidden in landscape mode in ios 8 and works fine in ios 7 tried after release of ios 8 in xCode 6

Question

I've got an issue with the status bar which is hidden when the simulator is rotated in landscape mode in iOS 8, while it works fine in iOS 7 simulators.

What should I do to resolve this issue ?

The accepted answer of this question fixed this issue: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24329503/on-ios8-displaying-my-app-in-landscape-mode-will-hide-the-status-bar-but-on-ios — Bill Chan, Nov 03 '14 at 21:06

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 08 '14 at 18:58

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This is the new default in iOS 8. But you can restore the old behavior by overriding the following in your UIViewController:

- (BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden {
    return NO;
}

answered Oct 08 '14 at 18:58

nschum

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score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 24 '15 at 06:50

The below simple solution is working great for me in iOS 8 without any issues.

- (void)viewWillTransitionToSize:(CGSize)size withTransitionCoordinator:(id<UIViewControllerTransitionCoordinator>)coordinator {

     [coordinator animateAlongsideTransition:^(id<UIViewControllerTransitionCoordinatorContext> context)
      {
         [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:NO];

      } completion:^(id<UIViewControllerTransitionCoordinatorContext> context)
      {

      }];

     [super viewWillTransitionToSize:size withTransitionCoordinator:coordinator]; 
}

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 20 '14 at 09:54

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It's not an issue but a feature of IOS 8. The status bar is hidden in landscape mode in IOS 8

answered Sep 20 '14 at 09:54

Patrick

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you are correct, even Apple app's also having same behaviour. – Ganesh G May 21 '15 at 10:48
Not all Apple apps / components have the status bar hidden in landscape. AVVideoPlayer is one example. – Steven Baughman Jan 04 '17 at 14:51

Issue of status bar which is getting hidden in landscape mode in ios 8 and works fine in ios 7 tried after release of ios 8 in xCode 6

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