How to set status bar style to light content on iOS7?
did you try it without "Animated:No" ?
Go to Info tab of the project target, Add Row:
UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance, set value NO
Then in appdelegate.m
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions{[application setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent];}This should set it application wide.
The Accepted answer seemed to work sometimes. I found out that the UIViewController can change the status bar style also. To get around this and always work, cause I didn't need the UIViewControllers controlling the status bar, I had to set UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance to NO in my Info.plist