Cannot change style of status bar

Question

I have a navigation bar implemented in my iOS App and I set the tint-color to white but when running the app, the status bar does not follow the tint-color and is just transparent (see image). I'm aiming for the status bar to have the translucent style to it.

How to fix this?

Possible duplicate of [Changing status bar style ios 7?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19447137/changing-status-bar-style-ios-7) — Badal Shah, Oct 13 '15 at 10:07

Chengappa C D · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-13T10:09:21.783

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To change the the status bar color in all the Viewcontrollers, add this to your info.plist

<key>UIStatusBarStyle</key>
<string>UIStatusBarStyleLightContent</string>
<key>UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance</key>
<false/>

then clean and run the build.

For setting status bar color specific to ViewControllers add the following in the info.plist

<key>UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance</key>
<true/>

And in the viewDidLoad method of ViewController call this method :

[self setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate];

And the add the following method in ViewController :

- (UIStatusBarStyle)preferredStatusBarStyle
{ 
    return UIStatusBarStyleLightContent; 
}

Cheers :]

edited Oct 13 '15 at 10:09

answered Oct 13 '15 at 10:00

Chengappa C D

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It just set the text of the status bar to white. It's still transparent – Renz Tan Oct 13 '15 at 10:10
refer to this : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19063365/how-to-change-the-status-bar-background-color-and-text-color-on-ios-7 – Chengappa C D Oct 13 '15 at 10:14
There are multiple answers, just go through. And let me know if it was of any help. :) – Chengappa C D Oct 13 '15 at 10:16
Found the culprit, I forgot that I have navigationBar.layer.maskToBounds set to true. now it works. Thanks anyways guys! – Renz Tan Oct 13 '15 at 10:34

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 13 '15 at 10:00

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Have you already tried this?

UIApplication.sharedApplication().statusBarStyle = .LightContent

answered Oct 13 '15 at 10:00

Luca Archidiacono

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score 2 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:29

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Try this

[self setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate];//add it in view didload

- (UIStatusBarStyle) preferredStatusBarStyle { 
        return UIStatusBarStyleLightContent; 
   }

Check the Links add the view in status bar check next link

edited May 23 '17 at 12:29

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answered Oct 13 '15 at 10:09

HariKrishnan.P

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Cannot change style of status bar

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