ios - Status bar visible on iPad mini despite setting UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance to NO

Question

I have an iPhone app with UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance set to NO. Not on any device I have tested with (iPhone 4, 5, 5s, 5c, iPad 4ish) is the status bar visible. Except on the iPad mini (1st gen). Using iOS SDK is 7.1.

The status bar is visible on iPad mini 1st gen. I expect the status bar to be hidden on this setup as well.

I even tried adding [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:NO]; to didFinishLaunchingWithOptions but it's not changing anything.

Status Bar Style is also set to "Hide during application launch".

The iPad mini runs iOS 7.1.

Yes, it's an edge case but I just can't get it to come up with expected results this time.

One more bit of info: I'm using cocos2d-iphone v2.1. Never ran into this problem before as I have released a bunch of apps with the same engine. I'm beginning to think this is a bug relating to the combination: iOS 7.1 and iPad mini.

This is the setup:

Answer 1

I faced same problem and I want to bring some explanations.

The problem occurs only when you start iPhone (only) application on iPad. If application is universal there won't be any problem. The most annoying behavior occurs using iPhone only application on iPad without Retina display. Because status bar overrides top part of application.

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My plist file:

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iPhone only application

iPhone

iPad:

iPad Retina:

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Universal application

iPhone:

iPad:

iPad Retina: