How to set status bar style to light content on iOS7?

Question

I tried several solutions from SO for this problem but none of them worked for me. I created a new iOS7 project with one simple view. I tried setting

View controller-based status bar appearance to NO

and in AppDelegate:

[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent animated:NO];

However this removes the status bar completely.

Without the View controller-based status bar appearance option, Regardless what I set for Status bar style in the plist file, the status bar text is still black. I need it to be white for the entire application. Is this possible?

I am on latest xcode version.

Answer 1

did you try it without "Animated:No" ?

Go to Info tab of the project target, Add Row:

UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance, set value NO

Then in appdelegate.m

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application 
    didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions{

[application setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent];
}

This should set it application wide.

Answer 2

The Accepted answer seemed to work sometimes. I found out that the UIViewController can change the status bar style also. To get around this and always work, cause I didn't need the UIViewControllers controlling the status bar, I had to set UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance to NO in my Info.plist