swift xcode change status bar (background color)

Question

In one view I am hiding the navigation bar using:

override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) {
    super.viewWillAppear(animated)
    self.navigationController?.navigationBarHidden = true
    }

This makes the status bar background color appear as white. But how do I change the background color of the status bar?

I think you should change your view's or root window's background color as I suspect that your status bar is transparent. — Ozgur Vatansever
@ozgur My status bar is red, with white text, or it used to be. But the root view has red background color and white text — user2722667
@ozgur If I set the background color of the viewcontrollers root view to eg red. It looks fine. But since I have an scroll view and then scroll to the bottom it will show a red background color at the bottom as well. When you scroll to the end and keep dragging, that bounce effect will show a red color — user2722667
The status bar doesn't have a background color any more... does it? — nhgrif
status bar can have only two styles, default (which is black) and light content. - rshankar.com/how-to-customize-status-bar-in-ios — rshankar

Aditya Koukuntla Aditya Koukuntla · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-20T03:21:51

You can have a light color and dark color for your status bar

 UIApplication.sharedApplication().setStatusBarStyle(.LightContent, animated: true)

(or)

  UIApplication.sharedApplication().setStatusBarStyle(.Default, animated: true)