iPhone status bar showing over the top of UIView

I'm having an issue removing/hiding the status bar. I have looked at other posts and tried using the following line in my code:

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This seems to work to some extent, however I can still see the status bar, except now it's on top of my view:

Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this? I've never come across this problem before.

In info.plist I added UIStatusBarHidden and I set it to true. This resolved the issue.