iPhone status bar height and size, measured
The clock, signal bars, Wi-Fi arc and battery, measured on a real 1179 px screenshot rather than eyeballed.
Last updated: 8 September 2026
On an iPhone 14 Pro (393 × 852 pt, 1179 × 2556 px), the top safe area is 59 pt and the home indicator area the bottom 34 pt. The status bar drawn inside that inset is shorter: 54 pt. At full 1179 px resolution the clock sits at x = 150, the signal bars span x = 846–903, Wi-Fi x = 926–976, and the battery x = 999–1074 with a 5 px cap.
Why these numbers are hard to find
Apple publishes safe-area insets, not glyph geometry. Design kits approximate the icons, and the approximations are usually wrong in the same way: signal bars too narrow, the Wi-Fi drawn as three stroked arcs instead of two filled crescents and a wedge, and the battery drawn as an outline when it is a filled pill with the number knocked out of it.
Everything below was measured pixel by pixel on a native screenshot, at the resolution the device actually produces.
Safe areas and overall geometry
| Measure | Points | Pixels @3× |
|---|---|---|
| Screen | 393 × 852 | 1179 × 2556 |
| Top safe area inset | 59 | 177 |
| Status bar height, as drawn | 54 | 162 |
| Home indicator area (bottom safe area) | 34 | 102 |
| Dynamic Island, collapsed | ≈ 126 × 37 | ≈ 378 × 111 |
54 pt or 59 pt? Both, and they are not the same measure
These two numbers are quoted interchangeably all over the web, and they are
not interchangeable. The top safe area inset is 59 pt: it is
what safeAreaInsets.top reports, and it is the distance your
content has to clear. The status bar is 54 pt: it is what
statusBarManager.statusBarFrame reports, and it is the box the
glyphs are drawn in. The 5 pt between them is padding the system keeps
underneath, and you can check both figures in one line of code on a
device.
Which one you want depends on what you are aligning to. Laying out a screen: 59 pt, because that is what the system reserves. Redrawing the status bar in a mockup: 54 pt, because that is the box the glyphs live in. Using 59 where 54 belongs pushes every glyph 15 px down at 3×, which is the most common error in a hand-built status bar, and it is visible the moment the mockup sits next to a real screenshot.
The glyphs, at 1179 px wide
Horizontal positions are measured from the left edge of the screen; vertical ones from the top. All three glyphs share a common baseline at y = 105.
| Element | Position | Size | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clock | x 150, y 69 | ink 131 × 38 | semibold, ≈ 52 px type |
| Signal | x 846–903 | 58 × 37 | 4 bars, 10 px wide, 6 px apart |
| Wi-Fi | x 926–976 | 51 × 37 | 2 crescents + a downward wedge |
| Battery | x 999–1074 | 76 × 41 | filled pill, cap 5 px at x 1077 |
Signal bars
Four bars, each exactly 10 px wide with a 6 px gap (so a 16 px pitch), all bottom-aligned at y = 105. Their heights climb 14, 21, 29 and 37 px. Corner radius is about 3 px. Bars that are too thin or evenly spaced by eye are the fastest way to make a mockup look wrong without anyone being able to say why.
Wi-Fi
Not three stroked arcs. It is two filled crescents with tapered ends, plus a small downward-pointing wedge at the bottom: the tip of the fan, not a dot. The outer crescent is about 7 px thick at its centre.
Battery
A rounded pill roughly 76 × 41 px, filled from the left in proportion to the charge, with the remaining portion in the same colour at about 38 % opacity. When the percentage is shown it is knocked out of the fill in the background colour, centred on the body, not drawn on top. The cap is a separate 5 px nub, also at reduced opacity.
Converting to another canvas. Divide by 1179 and multiply by your width. On our 923 px canvas the factor is 0.78287: the signal block becomes 45.4 px wide, Wi-Fi 39.9, the battery 59.5, and the right margin falls at 77 px.
The status bar in an App Store screenshot
Apple does not require a specific clock, but the convention is 9:41, the time shown when the first iPhone was announced. A full battery and full signal are also conventional: a screenshot showing 14 % battery reads as a snapshot of someone's bad day rather than a product shot.
Questions
How tall is the iPhone status bar?
On an iPhone 14 Pro (393 × 852 pt), the top safe area is 59 pt but the status bar drawn inside it is 54 pt. The 5 pt between them is system padding, and the two numbers are widely quoted as if they were one.
How tall is the home indicator area?
34 pt at the bottom, which is 102 px at 3×.
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