Change style of statusBar

Question

I'm trying to change the style of statusBar, and I tried to use the following code:

override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) {
    //1
    UIApplication.sharedApplication().statusBarStyle = UIStatusBarStyle.LightContent
    //2
    self.setStatusBarStyle(UIStatusBarStyle.LightContent)
    //3
    if self.respondsToSelector(#selector(setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate)){
        self.setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate()
    }

}

But this doesn't work, can anyone help me out.

Duplicate http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32674315/how-do-i-properly-change-my-status-bar-style-in-swift-2-ios-9 — Alessandro Ornano, May 14 '16 at 09:48
There are tons of these duplicate answers about status bar... — Alessandro Ornano, May 14 '16 at 09:50
there are many related answer already posted in Stackoverflow. — Nitin Gohel, May 14 '16 at 09:51
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24235401/uistatusbarstyle-not-working-in-swift — iYoung, May 14 '16 at 09:53

Jaimesh · Answer 1 · 2016-05-20T11:35:27.213

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To your Info.plist file add this key-value pair:

 UIStatusBarStyle: UIStatusBarStyleLightContent

The default (black) value is UIStatusBarStyleDefault.

edited May 20 '16 at 11:35

answered May 14 '16 at 09:47

Jaimesh

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Also define for IOS 7 in :http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18924345/how-to-change-status-bar-style-during-launch-on-ios-7 – Jaimesh May 14 '16 at 09:52

Dejan Skledar · Answer 2 · 2016-05-14T09:50:49.413

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You have to set the "View Controller based status Bar apperance" to NO in you Info.plist.

Another option is:

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

In your View Controller.

edited May 14 '16 at 09:50

answered May 14 '16 at 09:47

Dejan Skledar

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Not copied, but the same solution. – Dejan Skledar May 14 '16 at 09:50
@Dejan Skledar: Kindly provide a link to the answer instead of copying and pasting it. – iYoung May 14 '16 at 09:53
Since when is my experience copying another answer? – Dejan Skledar May 14 '16 at 09:58

Change style of statusBar

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