How to set statusBar color on iPhoneX?

Question

I use the navigationController, and i hide the navigationBar, how to set statusBar color on iPhoneX? I do not want to set self.view.backgroundColor

iPhoneX notch color

see this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46222041/how-to-get-a-black-statusbar-on-iphone-x-on-ios-11 — user6788419, Dec 04 '17 at 05:28
thank you. maybe i have to set color of the background view. — Jerny, Dec 05 '17 at 04:11
Refer https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46354227/how-to-change-the-bottom-edge-color-on-the-iphone-x-programmatically — ABM, Mar 05 '18 at 06:25

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered May 02 '18 at 02:30

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UIView *statusBar = (UIView *)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] valueForKey:@"statusBar"];
statusBar.backgroundColor = [UIColor greenColor];

answered May 02 '18 at 02:30

Jerny

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 15 '18 at 15:23

Here is a hacky trick to change/set background color for status bar during application launch or during viewDidLoad of your view controller.

extension UIApplication {

    var statusBarView: UIView? {
        return value(forKey: "statusBar") as? UIView
    }

}

// Set upon application launch, if you've application based status bar
class AppDelegate: UIResponder, UIApplicationDelegate {

    var window: UIWindow?

    func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {
        UIApplication.shared.statusBarView?.backgroundColor = UIColor.red
        return true
    }
}


or 
// Set it from your view controller if you've view controller based statusbar
class ViewController: UIViewController {

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        UIApplication.shared.statusBarView?.backgroundColor = UIColor.red
    }

}

Here is result:

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Method works great for me. A simplification for your first implementation would be `application.statusBarView?.backgroundColor = .red` since the instance of `UIApplication` is passed into the function there is no need to call your singleton instance. — NSGangster, Jul 21 '18 at 14:41
Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'App called -statusBar or -statusBarWindow on UIApplication: this code must be changed as there's no longer a status bar or status bar window. Use the statusBarManager object on the window scene instead.' — jeet.chanchawat, Oct 04 '19 at 03:46

Ahmadreza · Answer 3 · 2018-09-12T03:54:55.663

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Swift 4

func setStatusBarBackgroundColor(_ color: UIColor) {
    guard let statusBar = UIApplication.shared.value(forKeyPath: "statusBarWindow.statusBar") as? UIView else { return }
    statusBar.backgroundColor = color
}

edited Sep 12 '18 at 03:54

answered Jul 23 '18 at 08:49

Ahmadreza

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*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'App called -statusBar or -statusBarWindow on UIApplication: this code must be changed as there's no longer a status bar or status bar window. Use the statusBarManager object on the window scene instead.' – jeet.chanchawat Oct 04 '19 at 03:49
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Crashes in IOS 13 / iPhone 11 Pro Max – Cerlin Oct 30 '19 at 10:35
Here is the answer for iOS 13: https://stackoverflow.com/a/58524665/7851379 – Denis Bystruev Oct 30 '19 at 14:36

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 25 '18 at 22:37

In Interface Builder, I simply added a view at 0x0, 44px high and the same width as the top-level view, then set this view to the desired background color. This changed the background color of the status bar without affecting the view background color.

In my case, I needed something like this because the top half of my screen is one color and the bottom half is the other. I didn't see another way to make the status bar match the top color and the home button area match the bottom color.

This could easily be done programmatically if the extra view gets in the way on devices other than the iPhone X. In my case it doesn't cause problems on other devices.

How to set statusBar color on iPhoneX?

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