Status Bar not showing on iPhone 4S

Question

I have the status bar set to UIStatusBarStyleLightContent and in all other devices (5, 5S, 6, 6 Plus) the status bar is showing in white text. The background color of my app is black, so the status bar has a black background, thats why I need the status bar text to be white.

So only when I test on the 4S does the status bar text show as black. Is this a known bug? Is there any work around on making the 4S have the correct status bar style?

This is why I have done

in AppDelegate:

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {

    application.statusBarStyle = UIStatusBarStyleLightContent;
}

in each ViewController within my app I put this in viewDidLoad and add this method:

- (void) viewDidLoad {
    [self setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate];
}

- (UIStatusBarStyle)preferredStatusBarStyle
{
    return UIStatusBarStyleLightContent;
}

Also, in my info.plist I have this:

Status bar style = UIStatusBarStyleLightContent

I am using auto layout but only one storyboard.. and I have also set each view controller to have light content as the status bar style in interface builder — MSU_Bulldog

Joe Hu Joe Hu · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-29T15:52:42

Have you tried this?

Set "View controller-based status bar appearance" (UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance) to YES in your Info.plist. (YES is the default, so you can also just leave this value out of your plist.)

Status Bar not showing on iPhone 4S

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