Solved: How to change Status Bar text color in iOS

Question:

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?

Best Answer:

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())

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

If you have better answer, please add a comment about this, thank you!

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