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Xamarin Forms iOS status bar text color

I am unable to change the status bar text color of my Xamarin Forms iOS app to white. I have change in my info.plist as follow:

<key>UIStatusBarStyle</key>
<string>UIStatusBarStyleLightContent</string>
<key>UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance</key>
<false/>

Yet the color still remain black.. Is there another way to change the status bar text color?

Solution

  • In Xamarin.Forms, there are three things you need to do to achieve white text in the iOS Status Bar. I've also posted a sample Xamarin.Forms app below that uses white text in the iOS Status Bar.

    1. Update the Info.plist

    In Info.plist, add the Boolean Property View controller-based status bar appearance and set its value to No

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    2. Use a NavigationPage & Set the Navigation Bar Text Color to White

    In the Application class (typically App.cs), the MainPage must be a NavigationPage, and the BarTextColor must be set to Color.White enter image description here

    3. Clean & Rebuild the App

    Sometimes the compiler doesn't update the Status Bar Color until you Clean and Rebuild the app, so after making the changes in steps 1 & 2, clean the app and rebuild it. enter image description here

    Sample App

    https://github.com/brminnick/SaveImageToDatabaseSampleApp/