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How to hide and show the status bar

Paul Hudson @twostraws March 11th 2021

Updated for Xcode 13.0 beta 2

We can hide and show the iOS status bar using SwiftUI’s statusBar() modifier. This takes one hidden parameter that must be either true or false, depending the behavior you want:

Text("No status bar, please")
    .statusBar(hidden: true)

Important: This modifier is available only on iOS.

If you want status bar visibility to be dependent on some program state, use an @State Boolean in place of a hard-coded value. For example, this creates a hideStatusBar Boolean that gets toggled when a button is tapped, which in turn controls whether the status bar is showing or not:

struct ContentView: View {
    @State private var hideStatusBar = false

    var body: some View {
        Button("Toggle Status Bar") {
            withAnimation {
                hideStatusBar.toggle()
            }
        }
        .statusBar(hidden: hideStatusBar)
    }
}

As you can see, that toggles the Boolean inside a withAnimation block, which causes the status bar to fade in and out smoothly.