how do I properly change my status bar style in swift 2/ iOS 9?

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John Jackson picture John Jackson · Sep 20, 2015 · Viewed 39.8k times · Source

I'm attempting to change my status bar's style to .Light but the previous code I implemented in swift 1.2 seems not to work anymore.. here's the code:

override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        UIApplication.sharedApplication().statusBarStyle = .LightContent

    }

now I have my View controller-based status bar appearance info.plist setting to YES, and reading the UIKit doc, this will negate any statusBarStyle changes and keep it at default. However when I change the setting to 'NO' and change the statusBarStyle, I get this <Error>: CGContextSaveGState: invalid context 0x0. If you want to see the backtrace, please set CG_CONTEXT_SHOW_BACKTRACE environmental variable in my debugger.. So is this a bug in Xcode? because to change the status bar style you must change info.plist setting to NO, but when that happens.. error

Answer

Tom Hughes picture Tom Hughes · Nov 28, 2015

Apple have added the capability to change the status bar style in the deployment info. Simply choose 'Light'.ScreenShot of Xcode

Also set View controller-based status bar appearance key to NO in the Info.plist

info plist

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