I'm playing with admob interstitials and I find that the ios status bar (i.e. with the battery meter, signal strength icons etc) show up over the interstitial. The issue with that is the interstitial close button is sometimes on the right and partially obscured by the battery meter icon. I don't know if that would impress the app reviewer, (it doesn't impress me) so I was looking at how to hide the status bar, (or alternatively make the interstitial a bit smaller?). I'm not so worried about the rest of the buzztouch nav bar, as it does not interfere with the interstitial close. I have looked and found this post, which seemed the mose relevant: http://www.buzztouch.com/forum/thread.php?tid=8D69CC256E5AD7072F920B8&fid=BC70C36A743CD4FAD95D17F&sortColumn=FT.id&sortUpDown&currentPage=1 I edited the pList, as also suggested in stackoverflow: View controller-based status bar:NO Status bar is initially hidden: YES It does not seem to have any effect. I altered [self setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleDefault] but that only affected the text in the status bar. What am I missing?

To show [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES withAnimation:UIStatusBarAnimationNone]; To hide [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:NO withAnimation:UIStatusBarAnimationNone]; add the hide when the interstial is shown add the show again when it is dismissed

Thanks kittsy, I gave it a go. Here is how I used it: if ([self.interstitial isReady]) { [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES withAnimation:UIStatusBarAnimationNone]; [self.interstitial presentFromRootViewController:self]; THe interstitial shows, but sadly the statusbar is still there.

boo, i'll have a look when I'm at my mac

much appreciated, cheers.