How to set status bar tint color on iOS 6?

Question

As shown on Apple's September 2012 keynote, the status bar tint color varies between apps in iOS 6. For instance, Safari and Maps use a black status bar whereas Mail adds a blue tint to it.

Is it possible to set that tint color, or at least force it to black?

Answer 1

You can do it from the plist like Comradsky mention or in xcode 4.5, they added an option for it in the project summary.

Update:

several people were confused by this answer. Just to clarify, you cannot set the status bar tint to any color you want. What is described above is only to change the status bar tint during launch and choose the iOS 6 default status bar color behavior (which picks the color of the bottom row of pixels from your navigation bar).

Answer 2

I've just found how to do it !

1. In your "Project Summary", in "Status Bar", set "Style" and "Tinting" to "Default.
2. Then, jump into you xib or storyboard and add a UINavigationBar just below the status bar.
3. Set the UINavigationBar "Style" to "Default" and select the "Tinting" of your choice.
4. Run! :-)

If, like me, you don't want any UINavigationBar visible in your Interface, all you want to do is putting the UINavigationBar behind all the Objects, or set the "Alpha" to zero.