UIImagePickerController breaks status bar appearance

None of the solutions above worked for me, but by combining Rich86man’s and iOS_DEV_09’s answers I’ve got a consistently working solution:

UIImagePickerController* imagePicker = [[UIImagePickerController alloc] init];
imagePicker.delegate = self;

and

- (void)navigationController:(UINavigationController *)navigationController willShowViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController animated:(BOOL)animated
{
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES];
}

Regarding this awesome solution. For 2014 / iOS8 I found in some cases you need to ALSO include prefersStatusBarHidden and, possibly, childViewControllerForStatusBarHidden So…

-(void)navigationController:(UINavigationController *)navigationController
        willShowViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController
        animated:(BOOL)animated
    {
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES];
    }

-(BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden   // iOS8 definitely needs this one. checked.
    {
    return YES;
    }

-(UIViewController *)childViewControllerForStatusBarHidden
    {
    return nil;
    }

-(void)showCamera
    {
    self.cameraController = [[UIImagePickerController alloc] init];
    self.cameraController.delegate = (id)self; // dpjanes solution!
    etc...