iOS Swift 4 Coding

To hide the statusbar when the launch screen is shown in your iOS app you have to add the following to the info.plist file of your project. This will make the status bar completely disappear when the launch screen is shown.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    ...
    <key>UIStatusBarHidden</key>
    <true/>
    ...
</dict>
</plist>