How to set Status Bar Style in Swift 3

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I m using Xcode 8 0 beta 4   In previous version  UIViewController have method to set the status bar style  public func preferredStatusBarStyle   - gt  UIStatusBarStyle   However  I found it changed to a  Get ONLY varaiable  in Swift 3    public var preferredStatusBarStyle  UIStatusBarStyle   get      How can provide the style to use in my UIViewController

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There seems to be a small issue about the status bar text colour when dealing with navigation bars.

If you want the .plist entry View controller-based status bar appearance set to YES, it sometimes won't work when you have a coloured nav bar.

For example:

override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
    let nav = self.navigationController?.navigationBar
    nav?.barTintColor = .red
    nav?.tintColor = .white
    nav?.titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: UIColor.white]
    setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate()
}

and

override var preferredStatusBarStyle: UIStatusBarStyle {return .lightContent}

The code above won't work even if you have set the following in the AppDelegate:

UIApplication.shared.statusBarStyle = .lightContent

For those still struggling, apparently it somehow judges if the status bar needs to be light or dark by the styles in the nav bar. So, I managed to fix this by adding the following line in viewWillAppear:

nav?.barStyle = UIBarStyle.black

When the bar style is black, then it listens to your overridden variable. Hope this helps someone :)

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If you still unable to change the status bar style base on the method   override var preferredStatusBarStyle  UIStatusBarStyle       return  lightContent     You may try using this method   override viewWillAppear   animated  Bool        super viewWillAppear animated      navigationController  navigationBar barStyle    black

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To add to the great asnwer by  Krunal https   stackoverflow com a 49552326 4697535  In case you are using a UINavigationController  the preferredStatusBarStyle will have no effect on the UIViewController    Xcode 10 and Swift 4   Set a custom UINavigationController  Example   class LightNavigationController  UINavigationController       open override var preferredStatusBarStyle  UIStatusBarStyle          return  lightContent          Use an extension for an app level solution   extension UINavigationController      open override var preferredStatusBarStyle  UIStatusBarStyle         guard let index   tabBarController  selectedIndex else   return  default         switch index         case 0  1  2  return  lightContent    set lightContent for tabs 0-2       default  return  default    set dark for tab 3

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I was struggling with this too  so if you are presenting a FULLSCREEN modal view controller  make sure to set  modalPresentationStyle as  fullscreen and then  on your presenting view controller  just override  preferredStatusBarStyle to  lightContent  So  let navigationController   UINavigationController rootViewController  viewController  navigationController modalPresentationStyle    fullScreen     lt     make sure to set navigation modal presentation style present navigationController  animated  true  completion  nil   on your custom view controller  override status bar style      override var preferredStatusBarStyle  UIStatusBarStyle            lightContent

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Xcode 8 3 1  Swift 3 1   Create a new entry in info plist  View controller-based status bar appearance  set it to  NO   Open AppDelegate swift and add these lines in  didFinishLaunchingWithOptions  method    application statusBarStyle    lightContent

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If you want to change the status bar style any time after the view has appeared you can use this    In file info list add row  View controller-based status bar appearance and set it to YES   var viewIsDark   Bool    func makeViewDark          viewIsDark   true     setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate      func makeViewLight          viewIsDark   false     setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate      override var preferredStatusBarStyle  UIStatusBarStyle        if viewIsDark           return  lightContent        else           return  default

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This worked for me  Set View controller-based status bar appearance into NO in  plist then In  UIViewController viewDidAppear just added the following line   UIApplication shared setStatusBarStyle UIStatusBarStyle lightContent  animated  true

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Swift 3  To set the same appearance of navigation Bar across your app  you can do this in AppDelegate swift   func application   application  UIApplication  didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions   UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey  Any    - gt  Bool            setupNavigationBarAppearence           return true          private func setupNavigationBarAppearence            let navigationBarAppearace   UINavigationBar appearance           navigationBarAppearace isTranslucent   false           nav bar color         navigationBarAppearace barTintColor   UIColor primaryColor             SETS navbar title string to white         navigationBarAppearace titleTextAttributes    NSForegroundColorAttributeName  UIColor white            Makes the batery icon an any other icon of the device to white          navigationBarAppearace barStyle    black

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using WebkitView  Swift 9 3 iOS 11 3  import UIKit import WebKit  class ViewController  UIViewController  WKNavigationDelegate  WKUIDelegate         IBOutlet weak var webView  WKWebView      var hideStatusBar   true      override func loadView             let webConfiguration   WKWebViewConfiguration           webView   WKWebView frame   zero  configuration  webConfiguration          webView uiDelegate   self         view   webView            override func viewDidLoad             super viewDidLoad           self setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate           let myURL   URL string   https   www apple com            let myRequest   URLRequest url  myURL           UIApplication shared statusBarView  backgroundColor   UIColor red           webView load myRequest            extension UIApplication        var statusBarView  UIView            return value forKey   statusBar   as  UIView

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For objective C just add this line in your application didFinishLaunch method  UIApplication sharedApplication statusBarStyle   UIStatusBarStyleLightContent

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You can using a bool property named  shouldStatusBarDark  to toggle you status bar color  And you also could update its value to change the status bar color when you scrolling    var shouldStatusBarDark   false        didSet            setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate               override var preferredStatusBarStyle  UIStatusBarStyle        return shouldStatusBarDark    default    lightContent      func scrollViewDidScroll   scrollView  UIScrollView         let offSetY   scrollView contentOffset y      if offSetY  gt  50            UIView animate withDuration  0 4  animations                 self navView alpha   1              self shouldStatusBarDark   true                    else            UIView animate withDuration  0 4  animations                 self navView alpha   0              self shouldStatusBarDark   false

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Swift 3  amp  4  iOS 10  amp  11  Xcode 9  amp  10 For me  this method doesn t work   override var preferredStatusBarStyle  UIStatusBarStyle       return  lightContent     when I used to each view controller  but this worked    In file info list  add row  View controller-based status bar appearance and set to NO Next in appdelegate    UIApplication shared statusBarStyle    lightContent

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swift 3  if View controller-based status bar appearance   YES in Info plist  then use this extension for all NavigationController      extension UINavigationController               override open var preferredStatusBarStyle  UIStatusBarStyle           return  lightContent                     if there is no UINavigationController and only have UIViewController then use Below code       extension UIViewController               override open var preferredStatusBarStyle  UIStatusBarStyle           return  lightContent

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If you want to change the statusBar s color to white  for all of the views contained in a UINavigationController  add this inside AppDelegate   func application   application  UIApplication  didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions   UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey  Any    - gt  Bool          Override point for customization after application launch       UINavigationBar appearance   barStyle    blackOpaque     return true     This code   override var preferredStatusBarStyle  UIStatusBarStyle       return  lightContent     does not work for UIViewControllers contained in a UINavigationController  because the compiler looks for the statusBarStyle of the UINavigationController  not for the statusBarStyle of the ViewControllers contained by it   Hope this helps those who haven t succeeded with the accepted answer

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In iOS 13 you can use  darkContent UIStatusBarStyle property to display dark status bar

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Swift 3  In Info plist add a row called  View controller-based status bar appearance  and set its value to No   class YourViewController  UIViewController        override func viewDidLoad             super viewDidLoad            UIApplication shared statusBarStyle    lightContent   or  default         setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate

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You could try to override the value returned  rather than setting it  The method is declared as   get    so just provide a getter    override var preferredStatusBarStyle  UIStatusBarStyle       return  lightContent     If you set this conditionally  you ll need to call setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate   so it ll animate the change when you re ready

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Most of these answers are the same thing re-hashed  but none of them actually address the launch screen for me when using a dark background    I got around this with the following in my info plist which produced a light styled status bar    lt key gt UIStatusBarStyle lt  key gt   lt string gt UIStatusBarStyleLightContent lt  string gt

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If you are receiving the warning  Setter for  statusBarStyle  was deprecated in iOS 9 0  Use - UIViewController preferredStatusBarStyle   then to set the status bar to light or dark use the following code     To set the status bar to white self navigationController  navigationBar barStyle    black   or  blackTranslucent    To set the status bar to black self navigationController  navigationBar barStyle    default   This will not make your navBar change it purely indicates the style and therefore changes the status bar accordingly   NB  You need to ensure that you set in your info plist   View controller-based status bar appearance to YES

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For people looking to change status bar for all viewcontrollers on  iOS 11  Swfit 4 5 solution is pretty easy   1  Info plist add       View controller-based status bar appearance -  NO   2  Left side of XCode slect project   Targets   Select your project   Under General   Deployment Info   Select Status Bar Style  Light  If you want to change status bar only for one viewcontroller  on viewDidLoad add   2 1  Info plist     View controller-based status bar appearance -  YES   2 2   override var preferredStatusBarStyle   UIStatusBarStyle       return  lightContent     Objective-C  or react native  changing from App Delegate   1  Info plist add       View controller-based status bar appearance -  NO   2  AppDelegate -  didFinishLaunchingWithOptions    UIApplication sharedApplication  setStatusBarHidden NO animated YES     UIApplication sharedApplication  setStatusBarStyle UIStatusBarStyleDarkContent animated YES     Changing status bar do not work trying to do push navigation controllers   only on presenting modally viewcontrollers

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Xcode 10 or later Tested in Swift 5 No code required just follow below steps   If you want to change the status bar in the whole app    Select Project from Project Navigator  left side panel   Select target  Select General tab  Find Deployment info  Change status bar style to Light  for dark background  quot Light quot   Light background  quot Default quot    Don t forget info plist changes  Select Info tab Add this key into your plist file  quot View controller-based status bar appearance quot    NO  Run your project and check it  My project in swift 5 and Xcode 10 2  amp  11 0

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UPDATED  For Xcode 10   amp  Swift 4 2   This is the preferred method for iOS 7 and higher  In your application s Info plist  set View controller-based status bar appearance to YES   Override preferredStatusBarStyle   Apple docs  in each of your view controllers  For example   override var preferredStatusBarStyle  UIStatusBarStyle              return  lightContent     If you have preferredStatusBarStyle returning a different preferred status bar style based on something that changes inside of your view controller  for example  whether the scroll position or whether a displayed image is dark   then you will want to call setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate   when that state changes   iOS before version 7  deprecated method  Apple has deprecated this  so it will be removed in the future  Use the above method so that you don t have to rewrite it when the next iOS version is released   If your application will support In your application s Info plist  set View controller-based status bar appearance to NO   In appDelegate swift  the didFinishLaunchingWithOptions function  add   UIApplication shared statusBarStyle    lightContent   For Navigation Controller  If you use a navigation controller and you want the preferred status bar style of each view controller to be used and set View controller-based status bar appearance to YES in your application s info plist  extension UINavigationController      open override var preferredStatusBarStyle  UIStatusBarStyle         return topViewController  preferredStatusBarStyle     default

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You need to add below key in your Info plist file   View controller-based status bar appearance with boolean value set to NO  In your appdelegate class  in didFinishLaunchingWithOptions method before return   let statusBar  UIView   UIApplication shared value forKey   statusBar   as  UIView if statusBar responds to  selector setter  UIView backgroundColor         statusBar backgroundColor   UIColor red   UIApplication shared statusBarStyle    lightContent   change backgroundColor and statusBarStyle as per requirement

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First step you need add a row with key  View controller-based status bar appearance and value NO to Info plist file  After that  add 2 functions in your controller to specific only that controller will effect    override func viewWillAppear   animated  Bool           super viewWillAppear animated         UIApplication shared statusBarStyle    lightContent    override func viewWillDisappear   animated  Bool            super viewWillDisappear animated          UIApplication shared statusBarStyle    default

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Here is Apple Guidelines Instruction about status bar style change   If you want to set status bar style  application level then set UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance to NO in your  plist file  And in your appdelegate   didFinishLaunchingWithOptions add following ine  programatically you can do it from app delegate    Objective C      UIApplication sharedApplication  setStatusBarStyle UIStatusBarStyleLightContent animated YES     Swift  func application   application  UIApplication  didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions   UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey  Any    - gt  Bool       application statusBarStyle    lightContent     return true       if you wan to set status bar style  at view controller level then follow these steps    Set the UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance to YES in the  plist file  if you need to set status bar style at UIViewController level only   In the viewDidLoad add function - setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate override preferredStatusBarStyle in your view controller    Objective C  -  void viewDidLoad        super viewDidLoad        self setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate      -  UIStatusBarStyle preferredStatusBarStyle       return UIStatusBarStyleLightContent      Swift  override func viewDidLoad         super viewDidLoad       self setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate      override var preferredStatusBarStyle  UIStatusBarStyle       return  lightContent     Set value of  plist according to status bar style setup level

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Chose Light Content  Add View controller-based status bar appearance with NO to  plist

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You can also do this in storyboard   Create a new entry in info plist  View controller-based status bar appearance  set it to  YES   Go to your storyboard and then select the navigation controller that you want to change  Click on the navigation bar from Storyboard document outline section  left panel on storyboard   Go to the right panel and click the attributes section Under the Navigation Bar section you will see style  Select the style you would like  default is for black and black is for white    You will have to do this for each navigation controller you have  However  any views under that navigation controller will change all the view s status bars style color to the one you just selected  I find this option better because you can see your results instantly and do not have to add extra lines of code in every view controller       Done with Xcode 8 3 3 in an all Swift project

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Swift 4   for white statusbar text   navigationController navigationBar barStyle    blackTranslucent

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Swift 4 0 Please use this code in  didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions   Appdelegate class  UIApplication shared statusBarStyle    lightContent let statusBar  UIView   UIApplication shared value forKey   statusBar   as  UIView if statusBar responds to   selector setter  UIView backgroundColor      statusBar backgroundColor   UIColor black

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Swift 5  To add more detail for PRAVEEN s answer at https   stackoverflow com a 40066798 2082851  I would like to provide my implementation  It supports the flexibility to customize each controller s status bar   In overall  we will create a BaseViewController which handle the statusBarStyle property in all the case  When you create a new controller  make it as subclass of this base controller    Whenever you want to change the status appearance  you only need to update this property  The status bar style will be updated immediately   Implementation  class BaseViewController  UIViewController        var statusBarStyle  UIStatusBarStyle    default           didSet               setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate                        override var preferredStatusBarStyle  UIStatusBarStyle           return statusBarStyle           Demo  class ViewController  BaseViewController  UIScrollViewDelegate        let scrollView   UIScrollView                func scrollViewDidScroll   scrollView  UIScrollView            UIView animate withDuration  0 3                if scrollView contentOffset y  gt  30                   self statusBarStyle    darkContent               else                   self statusBarStyle    lightContent                                     2  UINavigationController  For UINavigationController  it is a special case  which you can follow either solutions   Solution A  Override with message dispatch  Since UINavigationController is an NSObject and inherit from ObjectiveC  its methods are message dispatch and you can override them   extension UINavigationController      open override var preferredStatusBarStyle  UIStatusBarStyle         return topViewController  preferredStatusBarStyle     default          Solution B  Create UINavigationController subclass  If you already have a custom UINavigationController  which usually need to control more requirements   this is the best solution for you   final class NavigationController  UINavigationController       override var preferredStatusBarStyle  UIStatusBarStyle           return topViewController  preferredStatusBarStyle    super preferredStatusBarStyle

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If you re using modal presentation you need to set   viewController modalPresentationCapturesStatusBarAppearance   true

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iOS 11 2  func application   application  UIApplication  didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions   UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey  Any    - gt  Bool          Override point for customization after application launch       UINavigationBar appearance   barStyle    black      return true

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Latest Update  Xcode 10    Swift 4 2   This article is left intact for anyone willing to understand the logic behind different approaches that were present for the past several years  Meanwhile  as of Xcode 10  Swift 4 2 first  approach is deprecated and is no longer supported  i e  will not take effect if you try to employ it   It s still referred for your information to better understand the reasoning behind Plist info flag and customizing practice  Important clarification It is very important to understand two approaches to customizing the status bar appearance  They are different and should not be mixed  First approach     one color for whole app  DEPRECATED since iOS7  In info plist you find or create a key called View controller-based status bar appearance and set it to NO  What it does  It essentially establishes a setting that says that in your application  status bar appearance is not defined individually by each view controller  This is super important to understand  This means that you have uniform setting for entire app  for all screens  There are two settings  default  which is black text on white background  or lightContent  which is white text on black background  To set one of these up  one setting for all screens   func application   application  UIApplication  didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions   UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey  Any    - gt  Bool       application statusBarStyle    lightContent     default     return true    This way you won t need to reestablish this setting on each view controller  However  you can always resort to this method to voluntarily change appearance  Second approach     individual color for each view controller This is the opposite  To make it work  go ahead to info plist and set View controller-based status bar appearance to YES This way  whenever a new view controller is open  status bar style is set individually if you insert this implementation in each UIViewController instance you need  override var preferredStatusBarStyle  UIStatusBarStyle       return  lightContent     default    You have the same as in first  set either dark or light style for statusbar  individual to each view controller  This property is fetched by UIKit in two scenarios   Upon initialization of the screen  when UI is being prepared  Upon calling setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate   in the code   In latter case  you are eligible to manipulate the statusbar appearance by the following code  var isDark   false       didSet           setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate            override var preferredStatusBarStyle  UIStatusBarStyle       return isDark    lightContent    default    func toggleAppearance        isDark toggle      Then  whenever you call toggleAppearance    statusbar style change will be triggered  Third approach     Hack  There s a hack which allows to access statusbar directly  func application   application  UIApplication  didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions   UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey  Any    - gt  Bool            if let statusBar   UIApplication shared value forKey   quot statusBar quot   as  UIView           statusBar backgroundColor   UIColor blue                return true    Why hack  If you need status bar color other than black or white  you use undocumented API  You get statusBar object using KVC and set its background color  Object you get this way is UIStatusBar  which is derived from UIView and thus naturally supports backgroundColor property  This is dirty  not legal way  but so far it s the only way to set up custom color for statusbar  not taking into account UINavigationBar approach  which allows to customize navbar statusbar appearance altogether   It may well lead your app to being rejected  But maybe you re lucky  And if you are  in certain complex circumstances  like hierarchy of nested  child navigation and view controllers  this may be pretty much the only  or at least the less troublesome way to customize statusbar appearance  for example  to make it transparent  Xcode 10   Swift 4 2 There are no alternatives any more  developer should let each view controller define statusbar appearance  by setting the flag to YES  or omitting this action  because it s YES by default  and following above instructions   Bonus Hack-based solution you might  although not encouraged to  use in complex circumstances in order to voluntarily change statusbar appearance at any stage  Color-wise  the following extension method does exactly what you could have done with regular approach  You can adjust it to your needs  extension UIViewController       func setStatusBarStyle   style  UIStatusBarStyle            if let statusBar   UIApplication shared value forKey   quot statusBar quot   as  UIView               statusBar backgroundColor   style     lightContent   UIColor black    white             statusBar setValue style     lightContent   UIColor white    black  forKey   quot foregroundColor quot

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