Status Bar on iOS Background Color

Question

I’m having a hard time setting the iOS status bar background color to transparent. I’m using the latest version of cordova statusbar and ionic, and leaving everything to their default setting, however i’m getting a white background color for some reason. How can i set the background color to transplant, i though this is the default value anyhow.

Answer 1

Okay so after referring to:

• https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-12886 and
• https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-12890

The issue occurs in iOS 11, and cordova-ios-4.5.0 and is simply solved by adding the cover value to viewport-fit as follows in your index.html:

   <meta name="viewport" content="viewport-fit=cover, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=no, width=device-width" />

Answer 2

This worked for me:

1. Run cordova plugin add https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-statusbar.git

2. config.xml Add <preference name="StatusBarBackgroundColor" value="#" /> inside <platform name='ios'> tag

3. index.html Add <meta name="viewport" content="viewport-fit=cover, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=no, width=device-width" />

4. Save.

5. Launch the simulator.