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[...] iOS 7 gives you more control over the status bar’s appearance. If you want, you can even tweak the status bar on a screen-by-screen basis. But [...]

[...] is to implement preferredStatusBarStyle and—within an animation block—update the status bar appearance and call setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate. This is great if you want that level of [...]

[...] set the new global status bar style. Enabling global styling By default, iOS sets the status bar color to black: To disable view-by-view status bar control, you’ll need to set the View controller- [...]

[...] on a view-by-view basis. Then you need to take charge and actually set the new global status bar style. Enabling global styling By default, iOS sets the status bar color to black: To disable view- [...]

iOS 7 gives you more control over the status bar’s appearance. If you want, you can even tweak the status bar on a screen-by-screen basis. But for [...]

[...] to do, but the selected answer didn’t seem to work. It just failed silently and left my status bar text black and sad. So I started pickng my way through the slew of alternate suggestions, each [...]

[...] . That’s the case for the app I’m building at work. The design comps call for a medium gray navigation bar and a transparent status bar with white text. Seems simple enough, but as I’m [...]

[...] ] that you can test with future iOS SDKs to see if the approach outlined below still works. Overview iOS 7 allows individual view controllers to determine the appearance of the status bar, as [...]