How to change Status Bar text color in iOS
Solution 1
Set the
UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance
toYES
in the .plist file.In the
viewDidLoad
do a[self setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate];
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Add the following method:
- (UIStatusBarStyle)preferredStatusBarStyle { return UIStatusBarStyleLightContent; }
Note: This does not work for controllers inside UINavigationController
, please see Tyson's comment below :)
Swift 3 - This will work controllers inside UINavigationController
. Add this code inside your controller.
// Preferred status bar style lightContent to use on dark background.
// Swift 3
override var preferredStatusBarStyle: UIStatusBarStyle {
return .lightContent
}
Swift 5 and SwiftUI
For SwiftUI create a new swift file called HostingController.swift
import Foundation
import UIKit
import SwiftUI
class HostingController: UIHostingController<ContentView> {
override var preferredStatusBarStyle: UIStatusBarStyle {
return .lightContent
}
}
Then change the following lines of code in the SceneDelegate.swift
window.rootViewController = UIHostingController(rootView: ContentView())
to
window.rootViewController = HostingController(rootView: ContentView())
Solution 2
Alternatively, you can opt out of the view-controller based status bar appearance:
- Set
View controller-based status bar appearance
toNO
in yourInfo.plist
. - Call
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent];
Note: This method has been deprecated in iOS9. Use preferredStatusBarStyle
on the UIViewController instead. (see Apple Developer Library)
Solution 3
You can do this without writing any line of code!
Do the following to make the status bar text color white through the whole app
On you project plist file:
- Status bar style:
Transparent black style (alpha of 0.5)
- View controller-based status bar appearance:
NO
- Status bar is initially hidden:
NO
Solution 4
Note: The most upvoted answer does not work for iOS 7 / 8
In Info.plist set 'View controller-based status bar appearance' as NO
In AppDelegate add
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent];
to
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions{
...
}
This solution works for iOS 7 / 8.
Solution 5
For me, nothing happened with using all the things in the other answers (and from other sources/documentation). What did help was to set the Navigation Bar Style to "Black" in the XIB. This changed the text to white without any code at all.
Oleksandr Veremchuk
Updated on July 26, 2022Comments
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Oleksandr Veremchuk almost 2 years
My application has a dark background, but in iOS 7 the status bar became transparent. So I can't see anything there, only the green battery indicator in the corner. How can I change the status bar text color to white like it is on the home screen?