UIApplication.sharedApplication().setStatusBarStyle() deprecated in iOS 9

I think I have found a solution.I ended up setting the

View controller-based status bar appearance boolean to NO

In my info.plist file.

Then I went to my target's General settings -> Deployment info and changed the dropdown optionStatus Bar Style to Light instead of Default

This changed the statusbar style to Light for my whole application, just what I wanted.

I Hope this helps!

ios xcode swift statusbar ios9

In swift 3.

In your view controller:

override var preferredStatusBarStyle: UIStatusBarStyle {    return UIStatusBarStyle.lightContent}

If you wish when the app run your launch screen also has the status bar in lightContent then:

ios xcode swift statusbar ios9

In Swift 3 is like that:

 UIApplication.shared.statusBarStyle = .lightContent

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