I am trying to figure out if there is any way to hide a tab bar when it is not attached to a navigation controller. Even better to animate hiding and reappearing. I tried to pass a reference from the tab bar in the Interface Builder to the app. delegate object and setting tabbar.hidden = YES, this didn't work. I also tried moving the tab bar center off the screen, but this didn't work either. No matter what I do the tab bar is ever present.