# How do you handle safeArea and \<title\> in HotwireNative app?

**URL:** <https://discuss.hotwired.dev/t/how-do-you-handle-safearea-and-title-in-hotwirenative-app/6173>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [January 15, 2025, 7:47pm UTC](https://discuss.hotwired.dev/t/how-do-you-handle-safearea-and-title-in-hotwirenative-app/6173 "2025-01-15T19:47:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![garyharan](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/discuss.hotwired.dev/garyharan/32/4003_2.png) [@garyharan](https://discuss.hotwired.dev/u/garyharan)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2025, 7:47pm UTC](https://discuss.hotwired.dev/t/how-do-you-handle-safearea-and-title-in-hotwirenative-app/6173/1 "2025-01-15T19:47:55Z")

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I’m trying out Hotwire Native and I’m seeing the following issues:

 ![Monosnap iPhone 16 Pro 2025-01-15 14-41-17](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/uploads/stimulusjs/original/2X/8/804d66ba6d2b81cd7376db763b5423079ad11843.png)

1. the safe area is not supported out of the box where you see the “Sign In” header and the time overlap. Normally a device should know what the safe area should be but is this not handled natively by HotwireNative. Do people usually code something on the mobile device or add padding using something else in the views?

2. Is it possible to have no title at all displayed? How does one do this? Is there an easy way to hide it?

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**Author:** ![cwills](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4da419/32.png) [@cwills](https://discuss.hotwired.dev/u/cwills)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 7:15pm UTC](https://discuss.hotwired.dev/t/how-do-you-handle-safearea-and-title-in-hotwirenative-app/6173/2 "2025-01-17T19:15:24Z")

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When I made my app full screen, I used CSS (absolute positioning) to align the elements around this area. My situation might be a bit different though. I’m displaying a map with icons and not a traditional page.

For your second question, I think this is what you’re looking for:

self.navigator.rootViewController.setNavigationBarHidden(true, animated: false)
