iPhone status bar: height and size, model by model

Status bar height and top safe area for each current iPhone, taken from the Xcode Simulator, then the clock, signal, Wi-Fi and battery glyphs measured on a genuine 1179 px capture.

Last updated: 8 September 2026

Two figures that people quote as one

With a Dynamic Island, “status bar height” can mean two things. safeAreaInsets.top returns the top safe area: how far your content must stay from the top edge, 59, 62 or 68 pt. The statusBarManager.statusBarFrame property returns the status bar, the frame holding the clock and the glyphs, which is 54 pt on each of these models. What lies between the two is system-reserved: 5 pt on a 59 pt phone, 8 pt on a 62 pt phone, 14 pt on the iPhone Air.

Match the figure to the job. Building a screen means working against the safe area, since that is what the system keeps clear. Redrawing the bar in a mockup means working against 54 pt, since that is where the glyphs sit. Mixing them up shifts every glyph down by the gap, 15 px at 3× on a 59 pt model, and the slip shows as soon as your picture is laid beside a real capture. On a notch iPhone or the 17e the two figures are identical, so the trap only exists on Dynamic Island models.

The numbers, model by model

Screens are given in points. The last column converts the top safe area at 3×, the scale all these phones use, and each row groups models that returned exactly the same readings. The same grid with every model's App Store class is in iPhone status bar height by model, in points and pixels; the screenshot sizes for the 17 and the Air are in the iPhone 17 and Air sizes post.

Notch iPhones, X to 14 (the 14 Pro excepted) report a bar and a safe area that are one and the same number, between 44 and 50 pt: 44 pt for the X, XS and 11 Pro, 48 pt for the 11 and XR, 47 pt for the 12 and 13 families, 50 pt for the 12 mini and 13 mini. So the 17e is not the only phone at 47; every notch model from the 12 to the 14 shares it.

Reading the value at runtime

Query the device, or the Simulator, rather than pasting a figure from this page: the next model will shift it.

• UIKit, safe area: view.safeAreaInsets.top, once the view belongs to a window. Use viewDidLayoutSubviews; viewDidLoad is too early.
• UIKit, bar frame: view.window?.windowScene?.statusBarManager?.statusBarFrame.height.
• SwiftUI: wrap the content in a GeometryReader and take geometry.safeAreaInsets.top.
• React Native: useSafeAreaInsets() from react-native-safe-area-context, below a SafeAreaProvider; insets.top gives the safe area.

A constant of 59 breaks on the Air, which reports 68. When the target is an image and not an app, rely on the glyph measurements further down together with the screenshot size calculator.

Why glyph geometry is rarely published

Apple documents insets and says nothing about how the icons are drawn. Design kits fill the gap by eye and tend to err identically: signal bars drawn too slim, Wi-Fi built from three stroked arcs when the real one is two filled crescents over a wedge, and a battery outlined like a wire frame when it is a filled pill with the digits cut out of it.

The values below come from a native 1179 px capture, counted pixel by pixel on a 393 × 852 pt screen (the iPhone 14 Pro to 16 size). Other widths were not measured.

The 393 × 852 pt screen in numbers

Glyph by glyph, on a 1179 px canvas

X runs from the left edge, y from the top, and the three icons share one baseline at y = 105.

• Signal. Four bars of 10 px separated by 6 px, so one bar every 16 px, sitting on y = 105 and rising 14, 21, 29 then 37 px, with corners near 3 px. Spacing chosen by eye is the quickest route to a mockup that feels wrong for no nameable reason.
• Wi-Fi. Two filled crescents with tapering tips and, beneath them, a small wedge pointing down: the apex of the fan, not a dot. The outer crescent is about 7 px thick at the middle.
• Battery. A rounded pill near 76 × 41 px filled from the left to the charge level, the empty remainder in the same colour at roughly 38 % opacity. A visible percentage is knocked out of the fill, in the background colour, centred on the body. The cap is its own 5 px nub, also dimmed.

Clock and battery in a store screenshot

Apple sets no rule for the time, but everybody shows 9:41, the hour of the first iPhone keynote. Full signal and a full battery are the custom too: a frame at 14 % battery looks like somebody's rough afternoon, not a product shot. Dimensions for the images themselves are in the App Store screenshot sizes guide.