iOS 13 Setting status bar text color from within UINavigationController

Question

So before iOS 13, I was setting the NavigationController.NavigationBar.BarStyle to control the colour of the text int he status bar. But now witht he new UINavigationBarAppearan

Answer 1

You can change the status bar text color by using this extension:

extension UIApplication {

    enum ColorMode {
        case dark, light, customColorLowerThanIOS13(_ color: UIColor)
    }

    func setStatusBarTextColor(_ mode: ColorMode) {
        if #available(iOS 13.0, *) {
            guard let appDelegate = delegate as? AppDelegate else { return }

            var style: UIUserInterfaceStyle

            switch mode {
                case .dark:
                    style = .dark
                default:
                    style = .light
            }

            appDelegate.window?.overrideUserInterfaceStyle = style
        } else {
            if let statusBar = UIApplication.shared.value(forKey: "statusBar") as? UIView {
                var color: UIColor

                switch mode {
                    case .dark:
                        color = .white
                    case .light:
                        color = .black
                    case .customColorLowerThanIOS13(let customColor):
                        color = customColor
                }

                statusBar.setValue(color, forKey: "foregroundColor")
            }
        }
    }

}

Using:

UIApplication.shared.setStatusBarTextColor(.dark)
UIApplication.shared.setStatusBarTextColor(.light)
UIApplication.shared.setStatusBarTextColor(.customColorLowerThanIOS13(.red))