iOS 7 status bar back to iOS 6 default style in iPhone app?

Question

In iOS 7 the UIStatusBar has been designed in a way that it merges with the view like this:

Answer 1

This might be too late to share, but I have something to contribute which might help someone, I was trying to sub-class the UINavigationBar and wanted to make it look like ios 6 with black status bar and status bar text in white.

Here is what I found working for that

        self.navigationController?.navigationBar.clipsToBounds = true
        self.navigationController?.navigationBar.translucent = false
        self.navigationController?.navigationBar.barStyle = .Black
        self.navigationController?.navigationBar.barTintColor = UIColor.whiteColor()

It made my status bar background black, status bar text white and navigation bar's color white.

iOS 9.3, XCode 7.3.1