iOS 7 - Status bar overlaps the view

Xcode 5 has iOS 6/7 Deltas which is specifically made to resolve this issue. In the storyboard, I moved my views 20 pixels down to look right on iOS 7 and in order to make it iOS 6 compatible, I changed Delta y to -20.

Since my storyboard is not using auto-layout, in order to resize the height of views properly on iOS 6 I had to set Delta height as well as Delta Y.

If you simply do NOT want any status bar at all, you need to update your plist with this data:To do this, in the plist, add those 2 settings:

<key>UIStatusBarHidden</key><true/><key>UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance</key><false/>

In iOS 7 you are expected to design your app with an overlaid transparent status bar in mind. See the new iOS 7 Weather app for example.

This is the default behaviour for UIViewController on iOS 7. The view will be full-screen which means the status bar will cover the top of your view.

If you have a UIViewController within a UINavigationController and the navigationBar is visible, you can have the following code in your viewDidLoad or have a background image for navigationBar do the trick.

self.edgesForExtendedLayout = UIRectEdgeNone;

If you have navigationBar hidden, then you have to adjust all the UIView elements by shifting 20 points. I dont't see any other solution. Use auto layout will help a little bit.

Here is the sample code for detecting the iOS version, if you want to backward compatibility.

NSUInteger DeviceSystemMajorVersion() {    static NSUInteger _deviceSystemMajorVersion = -1;    static dispatch_once_t onceToken;    dispatch_once(&onceToken, ^{        NSString *systemVersion = [UIDevice currentDevice].systemVersion;        _deviceSystemMajorVersion = [[systemVersion componentsSeparatedByString:@"."][0] intValue];    });   return _deviceSystemMajorVersion;}