How to hide the status bar in Safari, no jailbreak required

Rag3Hack is at it again. Hot on the heels of his non-jailbreak solution for hiding stock iOS apps, comes a new trick that allows you to hide the status bar in Safari. This is useful because it allows you to gain more screen real estate since there’s no full screen mode in portrait mode.

Take a look at our video demonstration inside for more details on Rag3Hack’s latest…

If you’re interested in hiding your Safari status bar, simply head over to this website via your iOS device.

After you’re ready to regain your status bar, all you have to do is kill Safari and restart it to do so.

As always, we can’t technically recommend that you do this, so proceed at your own risk. That being said, I tried it myself, and it worked well for me.

Have you tried it?