iOS 7 Status bar transparency

Question

I'm stuck on something that looks trivial, but I really don't understand what's happening.

I'm compiling with iOS 7 SDK, and can't get the status bar to be transparent. It's fully black. In my .plist, Status bar style is Transparent black style (alpha of 0.5). I've tried all the other options, but I couldn't get it to work.

I still need to support iOS 6, but I'd expect iOS 7 status bar to be transparent by default, right ?

Any idea on what could cause this ?

Thanks

Solution 1

I'll answer to my own question, sorry about the waste of time.

My mistake was, the status bar was transparent. But for whatever reason, calling

[self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:YES animated:YES];

changed the top inset of my scrollview from 0.f to 20.f... So, I had a black background under my status bar, and therefore, a black status bar.

Thanks anyway !

Solution 2

Add this code to your .m file:

- (UIStatusBarStyle)preferredStatusBarStyle
{
    return UIStatusBarStyleLightContent;
}

Comments

[DCMaxxx]

I've tried this, that's pretty much every SO answer about that. No matter what View controller-based status bar appearance is set to in this info.plist, this function isn't called (can't fire a breakpoint, nor an NSLog)

[DCMaxxx]

For the record, the error came from automaticallyAdjustsScrollViewInsets set to YES.

[stuckj]

You just made my day. Had the same problem with initial display of a view inside a UIPageViewController. The UIPageViewController went under the status bar, but the initial page in the controller would be offset below the status bar. I was also using setNavigationBarHidden with the animation to display the page controller. Setting automaticallyAdjustsScrollViewInsets to NO in the page controller fixed it. You just ended a day of banging my head against the wall...thanks. :)