How to change status bar color

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How to change Status Bar text color in iOS 7

  1. Set the UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance to YES in the .plist file.
  2. In the viewDidLoad do a [self setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate];
  3. Add the following method:
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-(UIStatusBarStyle)preferredStatusBarStyle{ 
   return UIStatusBarStyleLightContent; 
}

This will not work controllers inside UINavigationController

For anyone using a UINavigationController:

The UINavigationController does not forward on preferredStatusBarStyle calls to its child view controllers. Instead it manages its own state - as it should, it is drawing at the top of the screen where the status bar lives and so should be responsible for it. Therefor implementing preferredStatusBarStyle in your VCs within a nav controller will do nothing - they will never be called.

The trick is what the UINavigationController uses to decide what to return for UIStatusBarStyleDefault or UIStatusBarStyleLightContent. It bases this on it’s UINavigationBar.barStyle. The default (UIBarStyleDefault) results in the dark foreground UIStatusBarStyleDefault status bar. And UIBarStyleBlack will give a UIStatusBarStyleLightContent status bar.

If you want UIStatusBarStyleLightContent on a UINavigationController use:

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self.navigationController.navigationBar.barStyle = UIBarStyleBlack;