iOS 13: NavigationBar BarStyle is ignored when using UINavigationBarAppearance

Question

I have a custom colour Navigation Bar and I need to make sure the Status Bar colour is set to white. In pre iOS 13 this was easy to do, here is a code snippet from a UIViewController that did the job just fine:

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    self.navigationController?.navigationBar.barStyle = .black
}

The issue I'm facing with iOS 13 is that I now need to use the NavigationBar's standardAppearance and scrollEdgeAppearance to undo the forced background transparency in the new UIKit. While I'm able to get the text and background colour of the NavigationBar to what I need with UINavigationBarAppearance() it reverts back my status bar colour to black. Here is a simple example that reproduces the issue:

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    self.navigationController?.navigationBar.standardAppearance = UINavigationBarAppearance() // <--- This is the line that reverts my status bar colour back to black
    self.navigationController?.navigationBar.barStyle = .black
}

I'm not sure if this I'm doing something wrong or this is a UIKit bug?

EDIT

Finally managed to fix the issue by adding the bellow two properties to my Info.plist file:

<key>UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance</key>
<false/>
<key>UIStatusBarStyle</key>
<string>UIStatusBarStyleLightContent</string>

Answer 1

I managed to finally to set the status bar style to white for the whole app. There are many solutions on SO but from my experience some of them can be very iOS specific, i.e. something that worked for someone on iOS 8-12 doesn't necessary mean it will work on iOS 13 with Xcode 11.

Here is my solution that works on iOS 13 with Xcode 11 (also tested on devices running iOS 12 for backwards compatibility) and UINavigationBar.appearance().standardAppearance = UINavigationBarAppearance(). In Info.plist file add the following two properties:

<key>UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance</key>
<false/>
<key>UIStatusBarStyle</key>
<string>UIStatusBarStyleLightContent</string>