How to set black status bar with a background image in iPhone X?

Question

App has an yellow image as a background, and status bar is set hidden, it works well on other devices except iPhone X.

The status bar sticks on white text color.

I tried to add the following code, still failed:

override var preferredStatusBarStyle: UIStatusBarStyle{
  return .default      
}

Any other suggestion?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Method 1:

You have to add this value to plist: "View controller-based status bar appearance" and set it to "NO".

After that add this in AppDelegate

   var window: UIWindow?
    func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {
        window = UIWindow(frame: UIScreen.main.bounds)
        if #available(iOS 11.0, *) {
            if (window?.safeAreaInsets.top)! > CGFloat(0.0) || window?.safeAreaInsets != .zero {
                print("iPhone X")
                application.isStatusBarHidden = true
                //or UIApplication.shared.isStatusBarHidden = true
            }
            else {
                print("Not iPhone X")
                application.isStatusBarHidden = true
            }
        }
        return true
    }

Method 2: "View controller-based status bar appearance" and set it to "YES". Which is by default.

As in iOS11+ setStatusBarHidden & isStatusBarHidden are deprecated, [prefersStatusBarHidden][2] is available from iOS7+, We can make status bar visibility settings over ViewController as-

struct StatusBarInfo {
    static var isToHiddenStatus = false
  }
    var window: UIWindow?
    func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {

        if #available(iOS 11.0, *) {
            if (window?.safeAreaInsets.top)! > CGFloat(0.0) || window?.safeAreaInsets != .zero {
                print("iPhone X")
                StatusBarInfo.isToHiddenStatus = true
            }
            else {
                StatusBarInfo.isToHiddenStatus = true
                print("Not iPhone X")
            }
        }
        return true
    }

In ViewController.Swift

override var prefersStatusBarHidden: Bool {
        return StatusBarInfo.isToHiddenStatus
    }