iOS 13 status bar style

iOS 13.2, Swift 5.1

For me nothing worked from solutions mentioned before. After 5 hours I ended up on modalPresentationCapturesStatusBarAppearance flag .

    destinationNavigationController.modalPresentationCapturesStatusBarAppearance = true    sourceViewController.present(destinationNavigationController, animated: animated, completion: nil)

After this preferredStatusBarStyle was called in presented VC.

override var preferredStatusBarStyle: UIStatusBarStyle {    if #available(iOS 13.0, *) {        if traitCollection.userInterfaceStyle == .light {            return .darkContent        } else {            return .lightContent        }    } else {        return .lightContent    }}

I had the same issue on iOS13 while it was fine on iOS12 for my app. I have a TabBarController which holds 3 NavigationBarControllers, and I present TabBarController from a previous ViewController. I fixed it by setting .modalPresentationStyle to .fullScreen when presenting:

tabbarController.modalPresentationStyle = .fullScreen

Maybe it will help you somehow...

In iOS13, there is now a .darkContent option for UIStatusBarStyle. For black text, use this (instead of .default) for preferredStatusBarStyle.