UIStatusBarStyle not working in Swift

Question

I\'m trying to change the Status Bar color in my Swift app to white, but am hitting a brick wall. I have 3 ViewControllers that are each embedded in a NavigationController (

Answer 1

For iOS9.x and Xcode7, just put this inside AppDelegate.swift:

func application(application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [NSObject: AnyObject]?) -> Bool {

    UINavigationBar.appearance().barStyle = .Black

} 

This will automatically turn your status bar's style to .Lightcontent for all the view controllers inside a UINavigationController.

(Also, delete View controller-based status bar appearance from Info.plist to suppress the warnings you're probably seeing too!)