iOS 7 and later: set status bar style per view controller

Question

I tried many ways to set the status bar style (default or lightcontent) but can't get it to work on a per view controller basis. I can set the status bar style for the whole app only.

Does anyone have a hint?

I tried UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance

and

-(UIStatusBarStyle)preferredStatusBarStyle{      return UIStatusBarStyleLightContent;  } 

but these methods don't work.

Answer 1

Have you tried this?

1. Set "View controller-based status bar appearance" (UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance) to YES in your Info.plist. (YES is the default, so you can also just leave this value out of your plist.)

2. In your viewDidLoad method, call [self setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate].

3. Implement preferredStatusBarStyle, returning the status bar style that you want for this view controller.

   - (UIStatusBarStyle) preferredStatusBarStyle {      return UIStatusBarStyleLightContent;  } 

Answer 2

There is a catch here if your view controller is inside standalone UINavigationController and not a part of Storyboard based UINavigationController then above all methods fail. I came across this situation and then in order to set the status bar to light style i used following

[self.navigationController.navigationBar setBarStyle:UIBarStyleBlack]; 

This worked perfectly for me.