Xamarin Forms iOS status bar text color

Question

I am unable to change the status bar text color of my Xamarin Forms iOS app to white. I have change in my info.plist as follow:

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

Yet the color still remain black.. Is there another way to change the status bar text color?

Answer 1

In Xamarin.Forms, there are three things you need to do to achieve white text in the iOS Status Bar. I've also posted a sample Xamarin.Forms app below that uses white text in the iOS Status Bar.

1. Update the Info.plist

In Info.plist, add the Boolean Property View controller-based status bar appearance and set its value to No

2. Use a NavigationPage & Set the Navigation Bar Text Color to White

In the Application class (typically App.cs), the MainPage must be a NavigationPage, and the BarTextColor must be set to Color.White

3. Clean & Rebuild the App

Sometimes the compiler doesn't update the Status Bar Color until you Clean and Rebuild the app, so after making the changes in steps 1 & 2, clean the app and rebuild it.

Sample App

https://github.com/brminnick/SaveImageToDatabaseSampleApp/

Answer 2

The only way to change status bar in IOS for me was to use this code in FinishedLaunching in AppDelegate

public override bool FinishedLaunching(UIApplication app, NSDictionary options)
{
    global::Xamarin.Forms.Forms.Init ();

    LoadApplication (.....);
    app.SetStatusBarStyle(UIStatusBarStyle.LightContent, true);

    return base.FinishedLaunching (app, options);
}