Status Bar on iOS Background Color

Question

I’m having a hard time setting the iOS status bar background color to transparent. I’m using the latest version of cordova statusbar and ionic, and leaving everything to their d

Answer 1

If you are using statusbar plugin, you should also update it to latest version (2.3.0 has just been released). This new version of the plugin handles the iPhone X notch.

BTW, the problem has nothing to do with the cordova-ios version, it's a new "feature" of the WebView when you compile the apps with iOS 11 SDK (it won't appear if you use Xcode 8 as it uses SDK 10). viewport-fit=cover is the way to go for removing this fake statusbar.