UIView height for iPhone X vs other iPhones

You really shouldn't do this. It violates Apple's Human Interface Guidelines to design for specific devices like that, and it's ultimately really hard/hacky to implement properly. However, if you're intent on it, you can detect it by the fact that the iPhone X has a unique screen size right now. Thus, you can inspect the UIScreen and compare to see if it matches the iPhone X's resolution, like this:

Swift

let iPhoneXScreenHeight = 2436 // This is in pixels

if case UIScreen.main.nativeBounds = iPhoneXScreenHeight{
    // Do your iPhone X-specific stuff here
}

Objective-C

const CGFloat iPhoneXScreenHeight = 2436; // This is in pixels

if(UIScreen.mainScreen.nativeBounds == iPhoneXScreenHeight){
    // Do your iPhone X-specific stuff here
}

Hi Michael,

Thank you for the quick response. Yes, I completely understand the concern with Apples Human Interface Guidelines.

Here is a little more info for my current situation. We have a background image that is displayed on the home screen of our app and is made up of light colors (mostly white). So, this makes the status bar at the top of the phone barely visible for users. Before iPhone X, I would just add a custom view to the homescreen.storyboard that had a transparency of .15 and a height of 22. But, when viewed on the iPhone X the UIView needs a larger height...about 35.

I basically did what bullet 2 recommends here (https://developer.apple.com/ios/human-interface-guidelines/bars/status-bars/). So, is there a way to change the height for iPhone X only or do you have another suggestion?

Appreciate your time and help.

mz