iOS 7 and later: set status bar style per view controller

Question

I tried many ways to set the status bar style (default or lightcontent) but can\'t get it to work on a per view controller basis. I can set the status bar style for the

Answer 1

There is a catch here if your view controller is inside standalone UINavigationController and not a part of Storyboard based UINavigationController then above all methods fail. I came across this situation and then in order to set the status bar to light style i used following

[self.navigationController.navigationBar setBarStyle:UIBarStyleBlack];

This worked perfectly for me.