UIApplication.sharedApplication().setStatusBarStyle() deprecated in iOS 9

Question

I have been using

UIApplication.sharedApplication().setStatusBarStyle()

In my appDelegate and it has worked fine, but since iOS 9, this method

Answer 1

for those still working with Swift 3 in Xcode 8:

( slightly different to Marlon Ruiz's answer above, not an override function, but within viewDidLoad )

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    var preferredStatusBarStyle: UIStatusBarStyle {
        return .lightContent
    }
}