iOS13 Navigation bar large titles not covering status bar

Question

On ios13, with iphone x, the large title navigation does not cover the status bar however when scrolling and transitioning into the traditional nav bar, it works perfectly. This doesn't affect devices without the notch.

Large titles

Traditional navigation bar

It's all embedded within a navigation controller so i'm lost as to why this is happening. Cheers

Answer 1

The official way to customize the UINavigationBar, pre iOS 13, is this:

// text/button color
UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = .white
// background color
UINavigationBar.appearance().barTintColor = .purple
// required to disable blur effect & allow barTintColor to work
UINavigationBar.appearance().isTranslucent = false

iOS 13 has changed how navigation bars work, so you'll need to do things slightly differently to support both old & new:

if #available(iOS 13.0, *) {
    let appearance = UINavigationBarAppearance()
    appearance.backgroundColor = .purple
    appearance.titleTextAttributes = [.foregroundColor: UIColor.white]
    appearance.largeTitleTextAttributes = [.foregroundColor: UIColor.white]

    UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = .white
    UINavigationBar.appearance().standardAppearance = appearance
    UINavigationBar.appearance().compactAppearance = appearance
    UINavigationBar.appearance().scrollEdgeAppearance = appearance
} else {
    UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = .white
    UINavigationBar.appearance().barTintColor = .purple
    UINavigationBar.appearance().isTranslucent = false
}

Answer 2

Use my extension iOS 13 Swift 5 tested

extension UIViewController {
func configureNavigationBar(largeTitleColor: UIColor, backgoundColor: UIColor, tintColor: UIColor, title: String, preferredLargeTitle: Bool) {
    if #available(iOS 13.0, *) {
        let navBarAppearance = UINavigationBarAppearance()
        navBarAppearance.configureWithOpaqueBackground()
        navBarAppearance.largeTitleTextAttributes = [.foregroundColor: largeTitleColor]
        navBarAppearance.titleTextAttributes = [.foregroundColor: largeTitleColor]
        navBarAppearance.backgroundColor = backgoundColor

        navigationController?.navigationBar.standardAppearance = navBarAppearance
        navigationController?.navigationBar.compactAppearance = navBarAppearance
        navigationController?.navigationBar.scrollEdgeAppearance = navBarAppearance

        navigationController?.navigationBar.prefersLargeTitles = preferredLargeTitle
        navigationController?.navigationBar.isTranslucent = false
        navigationController?.navigationBar.tintColor = tintColor
        navigationItem.title = title

    } else {
        // Fallback on earlier versions
        navigationController?.navigationBar.barTintColor = backgoundColor
        navigationController?.navigationBar.tintColor = tintColor
        navigationController?.navigationBar.isTranslucent = false
        navigationItem.title = title
    }
}}

How to use:

configureNavigationBar(largeTitleColor: .yourColor, backgoundColor: .yourColor, tintColor: .yourColor, title: "yuorTitle", preferredLargeTitle: true)

Set ViewController-based status bar...... to NO in info.plist if you want light Content

If you don't want largeTitles set it to false

for tranlsucent change navBarAppearance.configureWithOpaqueBackground() in:

navBarAppearance.configureWithDefaultBackground()
navigationController?.navigationBar.isTranslucent = true

in the call set background color to .clear

UPDATE: If you want to start with navigation controller and large Titles at first controller, don't forget to set launch controller in Scene Delegate like this:

guard let windowScene = (scene as? UIWindowScene) else { return }
window = UIWindow(windowScene: windowScene)
window?.makeKeyAndVisible()
let vC = UINavigationController(rootViewController: YourFirstViewController())
window?.rootViewController = vC

hope this help :)

Answer 3

For full application navigation bar support please add this extension inside your code.

import UIKit
extension UIViewController {


    open func showNavigationBar(_ large: Bool,
                                _ animated: Bool,
                                titleColor: UIColor,
                                barTintColor: UIColor,
                                fontSize: CGFloat) {

        navigationController?.navigationBar.barTintColor = barTintColor
        navigationController?.navigationBar.backgroundColor = barTintColor
        navigationController?.navigationBar.isTranslucent = true
        self.navigationController?.setNavigationBarHidden(false, animated: animated)
        if large {
            self.navigationController?.navigationBar.prefersLargeTitles = true
            if #available(iOS 13.0, *) {
                let appearance = UINavigationBarAppearance()
                appearance.backgroundColor = barTintColor
                appearance.titleTextAttributes = [.foregroundColor: titleColor]
                appearance.largeTitleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: titleColor,
                                                       NSAttributedString.Key.font: UIFont(resource: R.font.robotoMedium, size: fontSize)!]

                navigationController?.navigationBar.standardAppearance = appearance
                navigationController?.navigationBar.compactAppearance = appearance
                navigationController?.navigationBar.scrollEdgeAppearance = appearance
            } else {
                self.navigationController?.navigationBar.largeTitleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: titleColor,
                                                                                     NSAttributedString.Key.font: UIFont(resource: R.font.robotoMedium, size: fontSize)!]
            }
        } else {
            self.navigationController?.navigationBar.prefersLargeTitles = false
            self.navigationController?.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: titleColor,
                                                                            NSAttributedString.Key.font: UIFont(resource: R.font.robotoMedium, size: 20.0)!]
        }
    }
}

And Then call this method simply

self.showNavigationBar(true, true, titleColor: UIColor.blue, barTintColor: UIColor.red, fontSize: 32.0)