How to change Status Bar text color in iOS

ios, ios7, statusbar, swift, uistatusbar

Solution

Set the `UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance` to `YES` in the .plist file.

In the `viewDidLoad` do a `[self setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate];`

Add the following method:

- (UIStatusBarStyle)preferredStatusBarStyle
{ 
    return UIStatusBarStyleLightContent; 
}

Note: This does not work for controllers inside `UINavigationController`, please see Tyson's comment below :)

Swift 3 - This will work controllers inside `UINavigationController`. Add this code inside your controller.

// Preferred status bar style lightContent to use on dark background.
// Swift 3
override var preferredStatusBarStyle: UIStatusBarStyle {
    return .lightContent
}

Swift 5 and SwiftUI

For SwiftUI create a new swift file called `HostingController.swift`

import Foundation
import UIKit
import SwiftUI

class HostingController: UIHostingController<ContentView> {
    override var preferredStatusBarStyle: UIStatusBarStyle {
        return .lightContent
    }
}

Then change the following lines of code in the `SceneDelegate.swift`

window.rootViewController = UIHostingController(rootView: ContentView())

to

window.rootViewController = HostingController(rootView: ContentView())

Problem

My application has a dark background, but in iOS 7 the status bar became transparent. So I can't see anything there, only the green battery indicator in the corner. How can I change the status bar text color to white like it is on the home screen?

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