Change Status Bar Background Color in Swift 3

Question

In XCode 7.3.x ill changed the background Color for my StatusBar with:

func setStatusBarBackgroundColor(color: UIColor) {
guard  let statusBar = UIApplicatio         


        

Answer 1

"Change" status bar background color:

let statusBarView = UIView(frame: UIApplication.shared.statusBarFrame)
let statusBarColor = UIColor(red: 32/255, green: 149/255, blue: 215/255, alpha: 1.0)
statusBarView.backgroundColor = statusBarColor
view.addSubview(statusBarView)

Change status bar text color:

override var preferredStatusBarStyle: UIStatusBarStyle {
    return .lightContent
}

Update: please note that the status bar frame will change when the view is rotated. You could update the created subview frame by:

• Using the autoresizing mask: statusBarView.autoresizingMask = [.flexibleWidth, .flexibleTopMargin]
• Observing NSNotification.Name.UIApplicationWillChangeStatusBarOrientation
• Or overriding viewWillLayoutSubviews()