iOS Swift 4 Coding

If you want to change the status bar background color and text color you have to perform several steps. In this example we want light text on a dark background.

Change the statusbar text color to white

To change the text color, perform the following steps (not needed when the color of the text must be black):

1. Open your storyboard file
2. Go to the main navigation controller
3. Create a ViewController swift file for it if not available
4. Add the following code to it to show white text:

override var preferredStatusBarStyle: UIStatusBarStyle {
    return .lightContent
}

Change the statusbar background color

To change the background color of the status bar:

1. Open the AppDelegate.swift file and add:

func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {
    // Override point for customization after application launch.
    let statusBar: UIView = UIApplication.shared.value(forKey: "statusBar") as! UIView
    if statusBar.responds(to: #selector(setter: UIView.backgroundColor)) {
        statusBar.backgroundColor = UIColor.black
    }
    return true
}

2. Open the info.plist as Source Code and add:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    ...
    <key>UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance</key>
    <string>NO</string>
    ...
</dict>
</plist>