How to change Status Bar text color in iOS

Alternatively, you can opt out of the view-controller based status bar appearance:

1. Set `View controller-based status bar appearance` to `NO` in your `Info.plist`.
2. Call `[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent];`

Note: This method has been deprecated in iOS9. Use `preferredStatusBarStyle` on the UIViewController instead. (see [Apple Developer Library][1])


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In Info.plist set 'View controller-based status bar appearance' as NO

In AppDelegate add

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent];

If your application needs to have `UIStatusBarStyleLightContent` by default, but you still want to have the ability to use `UIStatusBarStyleDefault` on some screens, you could choose to manage the status bar color on the controller level, but in this case you'll have to overwrite `preferredStatusBarStyle` in every view controller (or implement it in a base view controller, from which all your other view controllers will inherit). Here's another way of solving this problem:

- Set the `UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance` to `NO` in the plist
- Set the `UIStatusBarStyle` to `UIStatusBarStyleLightContent`

All view controllers will use white text for the status bar. Now add this methods only in the view controllers that need the status bar with black text:

-(void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
[super viewWillAppear:animated];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleDefault];
}

-(void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated
{
[super viewWillAppear:animated];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent];
}

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.

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If you want the same result with Swift, you can use this code in your AppDelegate.swift file :

UINavigationBar.appearance().barStyle = .BlackTranslucent

And the text of your status bar will be white :-) !

If you still want to use `View controller-based status bar appearance` in info.plist set to YES, meaning that you can change the statusbar for each view-controller, use the following for white text in the status-bar in ViewDidLoad:

[[[self navigationController] navigationBar] setBarStyle:UIBarStyleBlackTranslucent];

**You dont need to do any code for this**

You need to add "View controller-based status bar appearance" key in info.plist as follows: [![enter image description here][1]][1]


& set its value type to Boolean & value to NO.
Then click on project settings,then click on General Tab & under Deployment Info set the preferred status bar style to .Light as follows:

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Thats it.

Just Change in **1)** `Info.plist` View controller-based status bar `appearance` -> `NO`
and write
**2)**

[[UIApplication
sharedApplication]setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent];
in


- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions

The easiest way to do this from Xcode (without any coding) is:

- Add `View controller-based status bar appearance` to your Info.plist and set the value to `NO`.
- Now, go to your project target and inside `Deployment Info` you'll find an option for `Status Bar Style`. Set the value of this option to `Light`.

You'll have the `White` status bar.

1. Go to `Project` -> `Target`,

2. Then set `Status Bar Style` to `Light`. It makes status-bar white from the launch screen.
[![Project Setting][1]][1]

3. Then set `View controller-based status bar appearance` equal to `NO` in `Info.plist`.

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