UIApplication.sharedApplication().setStatusBarStyle() deprecated in iOS 9

Question

I have been using

UIApplication.sharedApplication().setStatusBarStyle()

In my appDelegate and it has worked fine, but since iOS 9, this method is deprecated and I can't find an alternative.

I want to change the statusbar style to .LightContent for my whole application, but the only suggestion xCode gives me is to handle this in every VC separately with;

override func preferredStatusBarStyle() -> UIStatusBarStyle {
    return .LightContent
}

Has anyone an idea how to do this for the whole application?

Thanks in advance

Solution 1

I think I have found a solution. I ended up setting the

View controller-based status bar appearance boolean to NO

In my info.plist file.

Then I went to my target's General settings -> Deployment info and changed the dropdown option Status Bar Style to Light instead of Default

This changed the statusbar style to Light for my whole application, just what I wanted.

I Hope this helps!

Solution 2

In swift 3.

In your view controller:

override var preferredStatusBarStyle: UIStatusBarStyle {
    return UIStatusBarStyle.lightContent
}

If you wish when the app run your launch screen also has the status bar in lightContent then:

Solution 3

In Swift 3 is like that:

 UIApplication.shared.statusBarStyle = .lightContent

Solution 4

To dynamically update UIStatusBarStyle on view controllers use this method

this will also remove deprecated warning

'setStatusBarStyle:' is deprecated: first deprecated in iOS 9.0 - Use -[UIViewController preferredStatusBarStyle]

for calling

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:style];

Let's Get Started

Objective - C

define UtilityFunction

+(void)setStatusBarStyle:(UIStatusBarStyle )style {    
    [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] setInteger:style forKey:@"UIStatusBarStyle"];
    [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] synchronize];
}

over-ride this method in your BaseViewController

- (UIStatusBarStyle)preferredStatusBarStyle {
    UIStatusBarStyle style = [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] integerForKey:@"UIStatusBarStyle"];
    return style;
}

set UIStatusBarStyle value for the AnyViewController using a UtilityFunction like below:

[UtilityFunctions setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleDefault];

// call below code for preferred style
[self preferredStatusBarStyle];

Swift 4.0

define UtilityFunction

class func setPreferedStyle(style:UIStatusBarStyle)->Void {
    UserDefaults.standard.set(style, forKey: "UIStatusBarStyle")
    UserDefaults.standard.synchronize()
}

over-ride this method in your BaseViewController

override var preferredStatusBarStyle: UIStatusBarStyle {
    if let style: UIStatusBarStyle = UIStatusBarStyle(rawValue:UserDefaults.standard.integer(forKey: "UIStatusBarStyle")) {
        return style
    }
    return UIStatusBarStyle.lightContent
}

set UIStatusBarStyle value for the AnyViewController using a UtilityFunction like below:

Utility.setPreferedStyle(style: .lightContent)

// call below code for preferred style
preferredStatusBarStyle()

Solution 5

Swift 5, iOS 13.5+

I'm gonna make a recap that I hope it's gonna be helpful.

#1: General solution without using preferredStatusBarStyle

To answer the question, if we don't want to care about exceptions screens and not use the preferredStatusBarStyle property from view controllers as Apple recommends, I think that indeed setting the UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance to false and changing the Status Bar Style under General settings -> Deployment info to light, as @Rick already recommended, is the way to go.

#2: Using preferredStatusBarStyle

For my case, I wanted to be able to have the UIStatusBarStyle.lightContent as default, but with some screens having the UIStatusBarStyle.default; and in these kind of cases, the solution #1 isn't possible.

Since also having a general extension to UIViewController that allows to change the default value isn't obviously possible for this property, the only and best way to proceed in these cases if we don't want to use deprecated methods, is via inheritance.

So, a possibility is to have a general BaseViewController (and also the BaseNavigationController if you use one) that you controller inherits from, that sets the preferredStatusBarStyle to .lightContent.

With this approach, now you can simply set the style to default where needed, while maintaining the lightContent as default.

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Comments

[Oleksandr Karaberov]

Have the same problem. For all my view controllers in the application I use BaseViewController superclass, where I set this style.

[Rick]

@AlexanderKaraberov Thanks for your comment, I was thinking about your method before, but I wasn't sure if that was the best way, but it seems like the best option for now.

[Ashish Kakkad]

If you are using the UINavigationController then here is the answer stackoverflow.com/questions/32730211/…

[Kiran Sarvaiya]

Possible duplicate of How to set Status Bar Style in Swift 3

[justdan0227]

If you use this in the AppDelegate it still says its been depricated.

[justdan0227]

So there are two ways to do it. Either do the above and set View controller-based status bar appearance to NO and then set the Deployment Info to light, OR set View controller-based status bar appearance to YES and override in your view controller with override func preferredStatusBarStyle() -> UIStatusBarStyle { return UIStatusBarStyle.LightContent }

[jeet.chanchawat]

it is also depricated.

[Scooter]

This works, but it is deprecated in iOS 9.0. Still fires a warning and will quit working in some future iOS iteration.

[Sonic Master]

Status Bar Style's dropdown is missing in xcode 7.2. Where I can find it? @Rick?

[Sonic Master]

@Rick I think it was right. See my screenshot here dropbox.com/s/m40nwswf6wy8uh5/…

[Rick]

@SonicMaster Let me have a look and I will let you know

[Sonic Master]

Ah, I think I know what's wrong. That dropdown only shows if I change my Deployment Info's target into Universal. It disappear if you use specific target (ipad/iphone). Thank you so much, @Rick

[Rick]

@SonicMaster Ah now I get it, no problem, thanks to you aswel!

[Despotovic]

Any comment on why downwoting this answer? It works for me.

[Chan Jing Hong]

As some of the users have already answered, doing it this way is not recommended because directly accessing the statusBarStyle variable is deprecated. It will show you a warning, and it might break your app in the future.

[Mostafa Berg]

This is the same thing

[user1329261]

oc version not woking at all

[Alessandro Francucci]

what I find pretty stupid is that, if I want to have the .lightContent as default and change to .default to just few view controllers, I can't...

[Alessandro Francucci]

It's the same thing, deprecated

[Alessandro Francucci]

It doesn't seem a very clean solution though

[ekashking]

The goal is to dynamically change the status bar style ... your answer is just a basic static approach that everyone knows about.