Safari View Controller uses wrong status bar color

Question

My app uses a dark navigation bar color. Therefore I set the status bar color to white (so it has a nice contrast).

I did this by setting the barStyle to black (to make the status bar white) and also setting the barTint to my dark red color. Works perfectly.

I present a SafariViewController like this:

func openWebsite(urlString: String) {
    if let url = NSURL(string: urlString) {
        let svc = SFSafariViewController(URL: url)
        svc.delegate = self
        self.presentViewController(svc, animated: true, completion: nil)
    }
}

However the status bar of the presented SafariViewController still is white. This is a problem because the SVC navigation bar has the default white transparent iOS default style. So the status bar is basically invisible.

How can I fix that?

Answer 1

You can achieve that by wrapping SFSafariViewController with subclassed UINavigationController.

BlackStatusBarNavigationController.h

@interface BlackStatusBarNavigationController : UINavigationController
@end

BlackStatusBarNavigationController.h

@interface BlackStatusBarNavigationController ()

@end

@implementation BlackStatusBarNavigationController

- (UIStatusBarStyle)preferredStatusBarStyle {
    return UIStatusBarStyleDefault;
}

@end

Use like this:

UINavigationController *navigationController = [[BlackStatusBarNavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:viewController];
navigationController.navigationBarHidden = YES;

[self presentViewController:navigationController animated:YES completion:nil];