I have tried
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES];
This does nothing.
And I have looked in my Info.plist file for "View controller-based status bar appearance" but it's not there.
How can I hide the white status bar at the top of the screen (with the clock and battery charge) inside my app for Xcode 6? Thank you!
You need to override this method on each view controller unless you have that plist entry.
Objective-C
-(BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden{
return YES;
}
Swift 2
override func prefersStatusBarHidden() -> Bool {
return true
}
Swift 3+
override var prefersStatusBarHidden: Bool {
return true
}
And don't forget to set (if you present a view controller by calling the presentViewController:animated:completion: method):
Objective-C
vcToBeShownWithoutStatusbar.modalPresentationCapturesStatusBarAppearance = YES;
Swift
vcToBeShownWithoutStatusbar.modalPresentationCapturesStatusBarAppearance = true
Documentation: https://developer.apple.com/reference/uikit/uiviewcontroller/1621453-modalpresentationcapturesstatusb
If you change status bar from some container view controller (eg. UINavigationController or UIViewController with child view controllers) and you would like to change view controller responsible for status bar you should use childViewControllerForStatusBarHidden: property. Eg:
Set first view controller instance always responsible for status bar management
Objective-C
- (UIViewController *)childViewControllerForStatusBarHidden {
return childViewControllers.first; // or viewControllers.first
}
Swift 2
override var childViewControllerForStatusBarHidden() -> UIViewController? {
return childViewControllers.first // or viewControllers.first
}
Swift 3+
override var childViewControllerForStatusBarHidden: UIViewController? {
return childViewControllers.first // or viewControllers.first
}
Set container view controller responsible for status bar management
Objective-C
- (UIViewController *)childViewControllerForStatusBarHidden {
return nil;
}
Swift 2
override func childViewControllerForStatusBarHidden() -> UIViewController? {
return nil
}
Swift 3+
override var childViewControllerForStatusBarHidden: UIViewController? {
return nil
}
Documentation:
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiviewcontroller/1621451-childviewcontrollerforstatusbarh
Go to Info.plist file
Hover on one of those lines and a (+) and (-) button will show up.
Click the plus button to add new key
Type in start with capital V and automatically the first choice will be View controller-based status bar appearance. Add that as the KEY.
Set the VALUE to "NO"
Go to you AppDelegate.m for Objective-C (for swift language: AppDelegate.swift)
Add the code, inside the method
For Objective-C:
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {
[application setStatusBarHidden:YES];
return YES;
}
For Swift:
func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey:Any]?) -> Bool {
application.statusBarHidden = true
return true
}
Done! Run your app and no more status bar!
You can hide the status bar without writing a single line of code, it just requires two entries into the info.plist the first is
"View controller-based status bar appearance" set to NO
the second is
"Status bar is initially hidden" set to YES
You can add that row to your Info.plist file if it isn't there. Just go to the project in Xcode, go to the "Info" section, and hover over one of the existing rows. A "+" button should appear, allowing you to add a line and input "View controller-based status bar appearance".
For iOS 10 with Swift 3 you should use:
override var prefersStatusBarHidden: Bool {
get {
return true
}
}
Open info.plist
"View controller-based status bar appearance" set to NO
"Status bar is initially hidden" set to YES
Done
No need to write a line of code...Cheers
If you use UIDocumentInteractionController to show data then you never hide status bar so i have alternate of this
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent];
this line change the color of status bar content into white
My application has a dark background, but in iOS 7 the status bar became transparent. So I can't see anything there, only the green battery indicator in the corner. How can I change the status bar text color to white like it is on the home screen?
Set the UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance to YES in the .plist file.
In the viewDidLoad do a [self setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate];
Add the following method:
- (UIStatusBarStyle)preferredStatusBarStyle
{
return UIStatusBarStyleLightContent;
}
Note: This does not work for controllers inside UINavigationController, please see Tyson's comment below :)
Swift 3 - This will work controllers inside UINavigationController. Add this code inside your controller.
// Preferred status bar style lightContent to use on dark background.
// Swift 3
override var preferredStatusBarStyle: UIStatusBarStyle {
return .lightContent
}
Swift 5 and SwiftUI
For SwiftUI create a new swift file called HostingController.swift
import Foundation
import UIKit
import SwiftUI
class HostingController: UIHostingController<ContentView> {
override var preferredStatusBarStyle: UIStatusBarStyle {
return .lightContent
}
}
Then change the following lines of code in the SceneDelegate.swift
window.rootViewController = UIHostingController(rootView: ContentView())
to
window.rootViewController = HostingController(rootView: ContentView())
Alternatively, you can opt out of the view-controller based status bar appearance:
Set View controller-based status bar appearance to NO in your Info.plist.
Call [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent];
Note: This method has been deprecated in iOS9. Use preferredStatusBarStyle on the UIViewController instead. (see Apple Developer Library)
You can do this without writing any line of code!
Do the following to make the status bar text color white through the whole app
On you project plist file:
Status bar style: Transparent black style (alpha of 0.5)
View controller-based status bar appearance: NO
Status bar is initially hidden: NO
Note: The most upvoted answer does not work for iOS 7 / 8
In Info.plist set 'View controller-based status bar appearance' as NO
In AppDelegate add
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent];
to
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions{
...
}
This solution works for iOS 7 / 8.
For me, nothing happened with using all the things in the other answers (and from other sources/documentation). What did help was to set the Navigation Bar Style to "Black" in the XIB. This changed the text to white without any code at all.
None of that worked for me, so here is a working solution...
In Info.plist, add a row:
UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance, and set the value NO.
Then in AppDelegate in didFinishLaunchingWithOptions, add these rows:
[application setStatusBarHidden:NO];
[application setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent];
You dont need to do any code for this
You need to add "View controller-based status bar appearance" key in info.plist as follows:
& set its value type to Boolean & value to NO.
Then click on project settings,then click on General Tab & under Deployment Info set the preferred status bar style to .Light as follows:
Thats it.
Just two steps as following:
Step 1:
Under the Info tab of the project target, Add Row:
UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance, set value NO.
Step 2:
In the project AppDelegate.m:
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application
didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions{
…
[application setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent];
…
}
This works in Golden Master iOS 7 and Xcode 5 GM seed and iOS7 SDK released on September 18th, 2013 (at least with navigation controller hidden):
Set the UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance to NO in the
Info.plist.
In ViewDidLoad method or anywhere, where do you want to change
status bar style:
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent];
In case your UIViewController is inside a UINavigationController you will have to set the BarStyle:
-[UINavigationBar setBarStyle:UIBarStyleBlack]
Original Answer is here
https://devforums.apple.com/message/844264#844264
If you have an embedded navigation controller created via Interface Builder, be sure to set the following in a class that manages your navigation controller:
-(UIStatusBarStyle)preferredStatusBarStyle{
return UIStatusBarStyleLightContent;
}
That should be all you need.
I'm using Xcode 6 beta 5 on a Swift project, for an iOS 7 app.
Here is what I did, and it works:
info.plist:
Go to Project -> Target,
Then set Status Bar Style to Light. It makes status-bar white from the launch screen.
Then set View controller-based status bar appearance equal to NO in Info.plist.
In Swift 3 is very easy just with 2 steps.
Go to your info.plist and change the key View controller-based status bar appearance to "NO".
Then in the Appdelegate just add this line in didfinishlaunchingwithoptions method
func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {
// Override point for customization after application launch.
UIApplication.shared.statusBarStyle = .lightContent
return true
}
this has been deprecated in iOS9 now you should do override this property in the rootviewcontroller
doing this has been deprecated in iOS 9 should do this on the rootviewcontroller
override var preferredStatusBarStyle: UIStatusBarStyle {
return .lightContent
}
In AppDelegate.m, add the following.
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions{
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent];
}
And in the Plist file, set 'View controller-based status bar appearance' to NO.
Simply In App Delegate:
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent];
In Swift 5, Follow the below steps:
Add key UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance and set value to false in Info.plist
Add key UIStatusBarStyle and set value to UIStatusBarStyleLightContent
Well, this is really working like a piece of cake for me.
Go to your app's info.plist.
Set View controller-based status bar appearance to NO
Set Status bar style to UIStatusBarStyleLightContent
Then go to your app's delegate and paste in the following code where you set your windows's RootViewController.
#define SYSTEM_VERSION_GREATER_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO(v) ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] compare:v options:NSNumericSearch] != NSOrderedAscending)
if (SYSTEM_VERSION_GREATER_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO(#"7.0"))
{
UIView *view=[[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0,320, 20)];
view.backgroundColor=[UIColor colorWithRed:0/255.0 green:0/255.0 blue:0/255.0 alpha:1.0];
[self.window.rootViewController.view addSubview:view];
}
Bingo. It's working for me.
iOS 7 allows individual view controllers to determine the appearance of the status bar, as described by the Apple developer documentation:
iOS 7 gives view controllers the ability to adjust the style of the status bar while the app is running. A good way to change the status bar style dynamically is to implement preferredStatusBarStyle and—within an animation block—update the status bar appearance and call setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate.
Setting the status bar appearance globally is a two-step process.
First, you need to tell iOS that you don't want to set the status bar appearance on a view-by-view basis.
Then you need to take charge and actually set the new global status bar style.
To disable view-by-view status bar control, you'll need to set the View controller-based status bar appearance property in Info.plist.
Open the Project Navigator and select the project for your iOS app, then select the Info tab.
Hover over a row, then click the plus sign that appears to add a new property to your .plist.
Enter View controller-based status bar appearance in the Key field, then make sure the Type field is set to Boolean. Finally, enter NO in the Value field.
To set a global style for the status bar, add another property under the Info tab with a key of Status bar style, a Type of String and a Value of Opaque black style.
Here's a blog post with a little more detail and some sample code:
http://codebleep.com/setting-the-status-bar-text-color-in-ios-7/
Xcode constantly seems to change this, so this is the latest.
As of 2021 - Swift 5, Xcode 12
To change the status bar to white:
Open your Info.plist.
Add key UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance and set value to No (false). The human readable version of this is "View controller-based status bar appearance".
Add key UIStatusBarStyle and set value to UIStatusBarStyleLightContent (i.e., "Light Content").
Answer updated for for Xcode GM Seed:
In Info.plist put View controller-based status bar appearance as NO
In the project, set:
In ViewDidLoad:
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent];
No need do some extra , just write this code in your viewController and get status bar color white
- (UIStatusBarStyle)preferredStatusBarStyle{return UIStatusBarStyleLightContent;}
I think all the answers do not really point the problem because all of them work in specific scenarios. But if you need to cover all the cases follow the points bellow:
Depending on where you need the status bar light style you should always have in mind these 3 points:
1)If you need the status bar at the launch screen or in other places, where you can't control it (not in view controllers, but rather some system controlled elements/moments like Launch Screen)
You go to your project settings
2) if you have a controller inside a navigation controller
You can change it in the interface builder as follows:
a) Select the navigation bar of your navigation controller
b) Then set the style of the navigation bar to "Black", because this means you'll have a "black" -> dark background under your status bar, so it will set the status bar to white
Or do it in code as follows
navigationController?.navigationBar.barStyle = UIBarStyle.Black
3) If you have the controller alone that needs to have it's own status bar style and it's not embedded in some container structure as a UINavigationController
Set the status bar style in code for the controller:
Here is Apple Guidelines/Instruction about status bar change. Only Dark & light (while & black) are allowed in status bar.
Here is - How to change status bar style:
If you want to set status bar style, application level then set UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance to NO in your `.plist' file.
if you wan to set status bar style, at view controller level then follow these steps:
Set the UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance to YES in the .plist file, if you need to set status bar style at UIViewController level only.
In the viewDidLoad add function - setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate
override preferredStatusBarStyle in your view controller.
-
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
self.setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate()
}
override var preferredStatusBarStyle: UIStatusBarStyle {
return .lightContent
}
Set value of .plist according to status bar style setup level.
Here is some hacky trick to change/set background color for status bar during application launch or during viewDidLoad of your view controller.
extension UIApplication {
var statusBarView: UIView? {
return value(forKey: "statusBar") as? UIView
}
}
// Set upon application launch, if you've application based status bar
class AppDelegate: UIResponder, UIApplicationDelegate {
var window: UIWindow?
func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {
UIApplication.shared.statusBarView?.backgroundColor = UIColor.red
return true
}
}
or
// Set it from your view controller if you've view controller based statusbar
class ViewController: UIViewController {
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
UIApplication.shared.statusBarView?.backgroundColor = UIColor.red
}
}
Here is result:
This is documented in the iOS 7 UI Transition Guide, which you need an Apple developer ID to access directly. The relevant excerpt:
Because the status bar is transparent, the view behind it shows through. [...] Use a UIStatusBarStyle constant to specify whether the statusbar content should be dark or light:
UIStatusBarStyleDefault displays dark content. [...]
UIStatusBarStyleLightContent displays light content. Use when dark content is behind the status bar.
Also possibly of interest:
In iOS 7, you can control the style of the status bar from an individual vew controller and change it while the app runs. To opt in to this behavior, add the UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance key to an app's Info.plist file and give it the value YES.
I'd definitely recommend having a look through the document, which, again, you can access with your Apple developer ID.
Simply calling
[[UINavigationBar appearance] setBarStyle:UIBarStyleBlack];
in the
-(BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application
didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {
}
method of my AppDelegate works great for me in iOS7.
In my case for Swift 5, I added these lines:
override func viewDidAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
navigationController?.navigationBar.barStyle = .black
}
override var preferredStatusBarStyle: UIStatusBarStyle {
return .lightContent
}
I did some things different and it works for me.
With no changes in code, I did config my .plist file like this:
View controller-based status bar appearance > NO
Status bar style > UIStatusBarStyleLightContent (simple string)
I hope it helps.
edit
For each view controller I change the "status bar"'s Simulated Metrics property, in storyboard, from "inferred" to "Light Content"
in info.plist set the field value NO View controller-based status bar appearance and set statusbar style light in target > general setting.
Just to summarize, edit your project Info.plist and add:
View controller-based status bar appearance : NO
Status bar style : Opaque black style
or if you have raw key/value plist
UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance : NO
UIStatusBarStyle : Opaque black style
If you want the same result with Swift, you can use this code in your AppDelegate.swift file :
UINavigationBar.appearance().barStyle = .BlackTranslucent
And the text of your status bar will be white :-) !
I create views programmatically. To hide status bar in view I use
[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES withAnimation:NO];
in viewDidload method. The problem is every view have to implement the code above to be status bar hidden. Is there a way (programmatically) to set status bar hidden just in one place in the app so entire app to be without the status bar ?
I have tried to add this in AppDelegate, but it doesn't work.
Open your app plist file MyApp-Info.plist and add a row with the Status bar is initially hidden and the YES value.
EDIT:
If you want to do it programmatically, add this in your ApplicationDidFinishLaunching :
[UIApplication sharedApplication].statusBarHidden = YES;
If you are targeting the devices with iOS > 3.2, then use the following code in application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions: method in AppDelegate class.
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES withAnimation:UIStatusBarAnimationNone];
just put key "Status bar is initially hidden" as YES in Info.plist file.
you will get hide status bar throughout the application.
If you want to do it by problematically, then just put this code in Appdelegate.m file of your project.
[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES withAnimation:NO];
Instead of creating new views based on UIView, subclass UIView (we can call it SummercView) and add a viewDidLoad method to it that looks like:
- (void) viewDidLoad
{
[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES withAnimation:NO];
[super viewDidLoad];
}
And then in your xib or storyboard files, set the views where you want to hide the status bar to use SummercView instead of UIView.
And of course #Aadhira's answer is good, too. +1 to him/her.
Couldn't you create a view class which did this in viewDidLoad, and have your views be subclasses of it? They'd still each have to hide the status bar, but at least you wouldn't have to duplicate the code in each subclass.