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

On iOS 9 the following (setStatusBarStyle) is deprecated and you will get a warning if you go that way.

UIApplication.sharedApplication().setStatusBarStyle(UIStatusBarStyle.LightContent, animated: true)

If you want all statusBars changed in a single shot try adding the following to your Info.plist. This will also make your launch-screen status bar white. While the code above won't.

UIStatusBarStyle
UIStatusBarStyleLightContent
UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance