How to make UIImagePickerController StatusBar lightContent style?

Question

When I present the ImagePickerController the statusBar text color is still bla

Answer 1

I was facing a similar problem and I found the cleanest way to solve it was to override preferredStatusBarStyle in an extension of UIImagePickerController like so. This principal can be applied to third party libraries nicely.

extension UIImagePickerController {
    open override var preferredStatusBarStyle: UIStatusBarStyle {
        if isLightTheme() {
            return .default // black text
        }
        return .lightContent // white text
    }
}

isLightTheme() is simply a function to determine whether the NavigationBar in that controller is a light or dark colour.