In iOS 7 the UIStatusBar has been designed in a way that it merges with the view like this: (GUI designed by Tina Tavčar) It is cool, but it will somewhat mess up your view when you have something at the top part of your view, and it becomes overlapped with the status bar. Is there a simple solution (such as setting a property in info.plist) that can change the way it works [not overlapping] back