How to change the status bar background color and text color on iOS 7?

Warning: It does not work anymore with iOS 13 and Xcode 11.

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I had to try look for other ways. Which does not involve addSubview on window. Because I am moving up the window when keyboard is presented.

Objective-C

- (void)setStatusBarBackgroundColor:(UIColor *)color {    UIView *statusBar = [[[UIApplication sharedApplication] valueForKey:@"statusBarWindow"] valueForKey:@"statusBar"];    if ([statusBar respondsToSelector:@selector(setBackgroundColor:)]) {        statusBar.backgroundColor = color;    }}

Swift

func setStatusBarBackgroundColor(color: UIColor) {    guard  let statusBar = UIApplication.sharedApplication().valueForKey("statusBarWindow")?.valueForKey("statusBar") as? UIView else {        return    }    statusBar.backgroundColor = color}

Swift 3

func setStatusBarBackgroundColor(color: UIColor) {    guard let statusBar = UIApplication.shared.value(forKeyPath: "statusBarWindow.statusBar") as? UIView else { return }    statusBar.backgroundColor = color}

Calling this form application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions worked for me.

N.B. We have an app in the app store with this logic. So I guess it is okay with the app store policy.

Edit:

Use at your own risk. Form the commenter @Sebyddd

I had one app rejected cause of this, while another was accepted just fine. They do consider it private API usage, so you are subject to luck during the reviewing process :) – Sebyddd

Goto your app info.plist

1) Set View controller-based status bar appearance to NO
2) Set Status bar style to UIStatusBarStyleLightContent

Then Goto your app delegate and paste the following code where you set your Windows's RootViewController.

#define SYSTEM_VERSION_GREATER_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO(v)  ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] compare:v options:NSNumericSearch] != NSOrderedAscending)if (SYSTEM_VERSION_GREATER_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO(@"7.0")){    UIView *view=[[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0,[UIScreen mainScreen].bounds.size.width, 20)];    view.backgroundColor=[UIColor blackColor];    [self.window.rootViewController.view addSubview:view];}

Hope it helps.

1) set the UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance to YES in the plist

2) in viewDidLoad do a [self setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate];

3) add the following method:

 -(UIStatusBarStyle)preferredStatusBarStyle{     return UIStatusBarStyleLightContent;  } 

UPDATE:
also check developers-guide-to-the-ios-7-status-bar