Just a small snippet to hide the Status Bar on your UIViewController. Just add the following override function in your UIViewController. It should override the Status Bar setting.
//Hide the status bar override func prefersStatusBarHidden() -> Bool { return true; }https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb157lgN3c8 Swift 3.0
override var prefersStatusBarHidden: Bool { get { return true } }