Change status bar text colour from white iOS 7 / Xcode 5

Question

I'm developing an application for a school that I work at. Currently I am having issues with changing the status bar text from it's default state of black to white so we can actually read it!

I have tried everything i've found here and on the dev forums, including calling View controller-based status bar appearance = "NO" and also [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent];

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score 75 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 24 '13 at 09:04

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I just fixed this issue in one of my apps. Implement this in your UIViewController:

- (UIStatusBarStyle)preferredStatusBarStyle
{
    return UIStatusBarStyleLightContent;
}

Or choose another UIStatusBarStyle value that you need.

answered Sep 24 '13 at 09:04

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Only answer that worked. None of the others seemed to affect the status bar. – olivaresF Feb 05 '14 at 15:01
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An outstanding fix. What's more, if you're using navigation controllers within your app via Storyboards that don't necessarily need specific coding to handle what they do, you can use this in a single UINavigationController class that's assigned to each navigation view within the Storyboard. – Terrance Shaw Mar 24 '14 at 21:48
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this method is not called in my project. – bhavik Sep 23 '14 at 14:34

score 15 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 24 '13 at 10:06

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You can use this in your AppDelegate:

[UIApplication sharedApplication].statusBarStyle = UIStatusBarStyleLightContent;

answered Sep 24 '13 at 10:06

amb

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Only if you also set UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance to NO in the Info.plist. See: http://stackoverflow.com/a/18184831/650558 – Mason G. Zhwiti Feb 17 '15 at 22:32
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It's deprecated in iOS9. – Matthieu Riegler Sep 28 '15 at 14:42

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

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Here is a solution for your problem: How to change Status Bar text color in iOS 7.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

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answered Sep 24 '13 at 10:05

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It's better to just mark the question as a duplicate rather than add an answer saying that it is a duplicate. – Abizern Sep 24 '13 at 16:06
I asked this question because everything in that thread hadn't worked. – Damian W Sep 28 '13 at 09:44
Why the downvotes? [This](http://stackoverflow.com/a/20824667/1533054) worked fine for me (On iOS 7). – Sheharyar Apr 25 '14 at 10:53

Change status bar text colour from white iOS 7 / Xcode 5

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