UISearchController changing status bar color on invocation

Question

I have the following code in my app, specifically in viewDidLoad: that sets up my UISearchController.

self.searchController = [[UISear         


        

Answer 1

The status bar that is displayed when the search controller is presented (is active) belongs to the search controller. To set the preferred status bar style you must add a category to UISearchController and then override the preferredStatusBarStyle method.

Below is an example of the implementation file of the category:

@implementation UISearchController (Customization)

-(UIStatusBarStyle)preferredStatusBarStyle {
    return UIStatusBarStyleLightContent;
}

@end