title: How to create a launch image or how to get an empty status bar
body: <p>I want to create a launch image for my app. The <a href="http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/MobileHIG/IconsImages/IconsImages.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40006556-CH14-SW5" rel="noreferrer">HIG</a> states:</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>For iPhone and iPod touch create launch images that include the status bar region in the following sizes:</p>
  <ul>
  <li>320 x 480 pixels</li>
  <li>640 x 960 pixels (high resolution)</li>
  </ul>
  </blockquote>
  <p>I've tried to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3173682/how-to-create-high-resolution-iphone-launch-image">screenshot my app</a> within the iPhone Simulator. But here the status bar is on the screen including signal strength, carrier, time and battery life. So there are two possibilities:</p>
  <ul>
  <li>include status bar with wrong information</li>
  <li>clean status bar for myself (use Photoshop or something like this and then I have to be aware of the gradients ...)</li>
  <li>leave out status bar, but then violating the HIG (because images are of size 320x460 and 640x920)</li>
  </ul>
  <p>Is there a way to hide the informations in the status bar in iPhone Simulator? Should I leave out the status bar as talked <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2803500/iphone-app-submission-status-bar-and-screenshots">here</a>?</p>
  <p><strong>Solution:</strong></p>
  <p>It seems that all three answers are right. Here are the solutions:</p>
  <ol>
  <li><p>Supply images of size 320x480 / 640x960 with or without cleared status bar</p>
  </li>
  <li><p>Crop images (without status bar). Images have the size 320x460 and 640x920 then.</p>
  </li>
  </ol>
  <p>To be conform to the HIG I'll choose option no. 1</p>