The background text in the status bar is still black. How do I change the color to white?
// io8, swift, Xcode 6.0.1 override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() self.navigationController?.navigationBar.barTintColor = UIColor.blackColor() self.navigationController?.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.orangeColor()] } 
In AppDelegate.swift, in application(_:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:) I put the following:
UINavigationBar.appearance().barTintColor = UIColor(red: 234.0/255.0, green: 46.0/255.0, blue: 73.0/255.0, alpha: 1.0) UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = UIColor.white UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor : UIColor.white] For titleTextAttributes, the docs say:
You can specify the font, text color, text shadow color, and text shadow offset for the title in the text attributes dictionary
I like Alex's answer. If you want something quick to try out in a ViewController make sure you use
viewWillAppear() override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) { super.viewWillAppear(animated) var nav = self.navigationController?.navigationBar nav?.barStyle = UIBarStyle.Black nav?.tintColor = UIColor.white nav?.titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.orange] } 
To change the color universally, this code should sit in the NavigationController's viewDidLoad function:
class NavigationController: UINavigationController, UIViewControllerTransitioningDelegate { override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() // Status bar white font self.navigationBar.barStyle = UIBarStyle.Black self.navigationBar.tintColor = UIColor.whiteColor() } } To change it per ViewController you would have to reference the NavigationController from the ViewController and write similar lines in that ViewController's viewWillAppear function.
To work in objective-c I have to put the following lines in viewWillAppear in my CustomViewController.
[self.navigationController.navigationBar setBarTintColor:[UIColor whiteColor]]; [self.navigationController.navigationBar setTranslucent:NO]; For Swift2.x this works:
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.barTintColor = UIColor.redColor() For Swift3.x this works:
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.barTintColor = UIColor.red //In Swift 4
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: UIColor.white] To do this job in storyboard (Interface Builder Inspector)
With help of IBDesignable, we can add more options to Interface Builder Inspector for UINavigationController and tweak them on storyboard. First, add the following code to your project.
@IBDesignable extension UINavigationController { @IBInspectable var barTintColor: UIColor? { set { navigationBar.barTintColor = newValue } get { guard let color = navigationBar.barTintColor else { return nil } return color } } @IBInspectable var tintColor: UIColor? { set { navigationBar.tintColor = newValue } get { guard let color = navigationBar.tintColor else { return nil } return color } } @IBInspectable var titleColor: UIColor? { set { guard let color = newValue else { return } navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: color] } get { return navigationBar.titleTextAttributes?["NSForegroundColorAttributeName"] as? UIColor } } } Then simply set the attributes for UINavigationController on storyboard.
If you want to set the tint color and bar color for the entire app, the following code can be added to AppDelegate.swift in
func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool { // Override point for customization after application launch. var navigationBarAppearace = UINavigationBar.appearance() navigationBarAppearace.tintColor = UIColor(red:1.00, green:1.00, blue:1.00, alpha:1.0) navigationBarAppearace.barTintColor = UIColor(red:0.76, green:0.40, blue:0.40, alpha:1.0) navigationBarAppearace.titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.white] return true ` Updated with swift 3
override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() self.navigationController?.navigationBar.tintColor = UIColor.blue self.navigationController?.navigationBar.barStyle = UIBarStyle.black } Swift 4
override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() navigationController?.navigationBar.barTintColor = UIColor.orange navigationController?.navigationBar.tintColor = UIColor.white navigationController?.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.white] } Swift 4.1
Add a func to viewDidLoad
override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() setup() } In the setup() function add:
func setup() { navigationController?.navigationBar.prefersLargeTitles = true navigationController?.navigationBar.barStyle = .blackOpaque navigationItem.title = "YOUR_TITLE_HERE" navigationController?.navigationBar.barTintColor = .black let attributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: UIColor.white] navigationController?.navigationBar.largeTitleTextAttributes = attributes } In Swift 3 this works:
navigationController?.navigationBar.barTintColor = UIColor.white navigationController?.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: UIColor.blue] For custom color to TitleText at NavigationBar, here a simple and short code for Swift 3:
UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName : UIColor.white] or
navigationController?.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName :UIColor.white]