Cannot set iOS Status Bar Colour for View

Question

I am developing an app for iOS8, using Swift 1.2.

However, I am having an issue with the colour of the status bar (the one with the time, battery indicator etc).

In my Info.plist file, I have UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance set to YES as well as Status bar style set to UIStatusBarStyleLightContent and then in all my view controllers in the Storyboard, I have the status bar set to "Light Content".

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This works for all of my NavigationViewControllers and views embedded within NavigationViewControllers, however I have one normal TableViewController which is not embedded in a NavigationController, and when I push this view modally, the status bar changes to BLACK!???

Even when I look at the view in the Storyboard editor it shows as a white status bar (note the faint white battery indicator at the right of the below screenshot):

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But when I build and run on my iPhone, the status bar shows as black...

Why is this? How can I fix this? I don't know what could be incorrect.

Add one more key `Status bar style` -> `UIStatusBarStyleLightContent` — Kampai, Jul 14 '15 at 13:03
Yep already have that (sorry, didn't mention in the question, but already have that too) — Max, Jul 14 '15 at 13:06
Managed to find the solution on another post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24622960/swift-uiapplication-setstatusbarstyle-doesnt-work — Max, Jul 14 '15 at 13:11

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 14 '15 at 13:06

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Please make sure to add View controller-based status bar appearance (UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance) with value NO to your Info.plist

answered Jul 14 '15 at 13:06

freytag

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I have it set to YES...why should I set it to NO? When I previously had it as NO, I had a different issue where the status bar would be white, but then when I would display a UIImagePicker and then dismissed the picker, the status bar would from then on always be black throughout the app (which is not correct...needs to be white) – Max Jul 14 '15 at 13:09
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When you have YES, every controller can use its own style. When you set it to NO, the setting from the plist is always used. – freytag Jul 14 '15 at 13:40

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 14 '19 at 22:43

UPDATE:

I found the solution to this was very easy, from another StackOverflow article (Swift UIApplication.setStatusBarStyle Doesn't work).

For anyone else wanting to set the status bar colour programmatically, I just inserted the following code into my ViewController for the view in question:

- Swift 4.0+

override var preferredStatusBarStyle: UIStatusBarStyle {
    return .lightContent        
}

- Earlier Swifts (4.0-)

override func preferredStatusBarStyle() -> UIStatusBarStyle {
    return .LightContent        
}

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 14 '15 at 13:13

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These are setups for UIStatusBar style:

Go to AppDelegate.swift in that add below code line in didFinishLaunchingWithOptions method:
```
UIApplication.sharedApplication().statusBarStyle = UIStatusBarStyle.LightContent
```
Add below keys into .plist file.

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In Storyboard select your controller UINavigationController or UIViewController. And set status bar style as Light Content

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answered Jul 14 '15 at 13:13

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The option to select status bar in storyboard is in fact no longer possible. – Pranav Kasetti Feb 16 '18 at 16:06

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 18 '17 at 18:51

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For Swift 3

in your AppDelegate.swift file in function didFinishLaunchingWithOptions

UIApplication.shared.statusBarStyle = UIStatusBarStyle.lightContent

answered Sep 18 '17 at 18:51

Bartando

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 14 '15 at 13:14

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add this Line in your Appdelegate.swift file :

UIApplication.sharedApplication().statusBarStyle = .LightContent

answered Jul 14 '15 at 13:14

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Cannot set iOS Status Bar Colour for View

5 Answers5

- Swift 4.0+

- Earlier Swifts (4.0-)