Jared Sinclair: Wrestling with Status Bars and Navigation Bars on iOS 7

04 Oct 2013

[..] there is no way to return to iOS 6 style status bar layout logic. In order to approximate this, you have to move all the view controllers of your app into a container view that is offset by 20 points from the top of the screen, leaving an intentionally black view behind the status bar to simulate the old appearance. [..] Apple is pushing very hard to ensure that you don’t try to do [this].