Change status bar background color in iOS13

Question

With iOS13 I cannot change the background color of the statusbar anymore because the statusbar is no longer accessible using "value for key". Did anybody figure out how this is possible or is there any knowledge that it will be possible in the final version of iOS13?

I came across different proposals already like using the UIApplications StatusBarView (no longer accessible in xcode 11, beta 7) or using the statusbarmanager. Both do not give access to the status bar.

let statusBar: UIView = UIApplication.shared.value(forKey: "statusBar") as! UIView
if statusBar.responds(to: #selector(setter: UIView.backgroundColor)) {
  statusBar.backgroundColor = <Some Color>
}

I expect the status bar to get the background color that I need.

Answer 1

Objective-C Version using UIStatusBarManager:

UIView *statusBar = [[UIView alloc]initWithFrame:[UIApplication sharedApplication].keyWindow.windowScene.statusBarManager.statusBarFrame] ;
statusBar.backgroundColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication].keyWindow addSubview:statusBar]

Answer 2

Use this on your preferred ViewController

override func viewDidAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
    if #available(iOS 13, *)
    {
        let statusBar = UIView(frame: (UIApplication.shared.keyWindow?.windowScene?.statusBarManager?.statusBarFrame)!)
        statusBar.backgroundColor = UIColor.systemBackground
        UIApplication.shared.keyWindow?.addSubview(statusBar)
    }
}

you can use your Color in "UIColor.systemBackground"

Answer 3

Code works for Swift 5+ and iOS 13+

To change the StatusBar background colour, i have created a base class of UIViewController so that i can inherit same code in all the view controllers.

Added "statusBarColorChange()" to UIViewController extension.

extension UIViewController {

  func statusBarColorChange() {

    if #available(iOS 13.0, *) {

        let statusBar = UIView(frame: UIApplication.shared.windows.filter {$0.isKeyWindow}.first?.windowScene?.statusBarManager?.statusBarFrame ?? CGRect.zero)
        statusBar.backgroundColor = .appNavigationThemeColor
            statusBar.tag = 100
        UIApplication.shared.windows.filter {$0.isKeyWindow}.first?.addSubview(statusBar)

    } else {

            let statusBar = UIApplication.shared.value(forKeyPath: "statusBarWindow.statusBar") as? UIView
            statusBar?.backgroundColor = .appNavigationThemeColor

        }
    } }

Created Base Class and inherited in other classes.

class BaseClass: UIViewController {

   override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
       self.statusBarColorChange()
   }    
}

class ChatListViewController: BaseClass {} 

Hope will be helping :)