The correct way to set a light status bar text color in iOS 7 based on different ViewControllers

Question

I need to let a specific ViewController embedded in an UINavigationController to have light status bar text color (but other ViewControllers to beh

Answer 1

Currently you can only do light and dark. To change to light do.

1. Set the UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance to YES in the .plist file.

2. In the viewDidLoad method do [self setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate];

3. Add the this method:

-(UIStatusBarStyle)preferredStatusBarStyle{ return UIStatusBarStyleLightContent; }

To change it back to dark change the UIStatusBarStyleLightContent to UIStatusBarStyleDefault

Answer 2

For people having this problem with a UINavigationController I can recommend creating a custom UINavigationController and implementing the preferredStatusBarStyle on it like this:

- (UIStatusBarStyle)preferredStatusBarStyle
{
    return [self.topViewController preferredStatusBarStyle];
}

That way the statusbar style will be that of the top view controller. Now you can implement the view controller's preferredStatusBarStyle anyway you like.