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iOS Status Bar - How to make it dark (on light background)

Discussion in 'iOS and tvOS' started by rtilton1, Jun 25, 2020.

  1. rtilton1

    rtilton1

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    I can't seem to figure out how to allow the status bar to be shown and be dark. I have a white background and no matter what it seems the status bar is also white. In XCode I also went to the info panel and tried to change 'status bar style', but still it's white!

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.
     
    rtilton1, Jun 25, 2020
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  2. rtilton1

    rtilton1

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    I just tried putting everything on a black background and then the status bar showed up as black. Then I changed the status bar style to light and it worked. However it seems like if I have a white background and change the status bar style to dark it doesn't work....
     
    rtilton1, Jun 25, 2020
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  3. lrtrime

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    Hey!
    Same problem here. Have you found a solution for dark status bar on white background?
     
    lrtrime, Oct 9, 2020
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  4. szopu

    szopu

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    You can change that in xcode by adding View Controller Based Status Bar Appearance to the Info.plist and setting it to NO. Then when you change the style to light or dark it shows correctly.
     
    szopu, May 17, 2021
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  5. danUnity

    danUnity

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    I know this is an old thread but I'm having an issue with the Status Bar Style.

    I only have two options :

    Default
    Light

    So I'm missing:

    Dark

    Why was the Dark version removed? How can we bring it back?

    Edit: I'm using Unity 2021.3.8f1
     
    Last edited: Apr 25, 2023
    danUnity, Apr 25, 2023
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  6. Alexey

    Alexey

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    Default is mapping to UIStatusBarStyleDefault which is "A status bar that automatically chooses light or dark content based on the user interface style."
    As for why dark was removed: this is apple tweaking UIStatusBarStyle, deprecating old enums and leaving only default and light. They added back UIStatusBarStyleDarkContent in ios13 (we missed it indeed). If you feel brave
    in Trampoline Classes/UI/UnityViewControllerBase+iOS.mm
    search for
    - (UIStatusBarStyle)preferredStatusBarStyle
    and tweak implementation to just return UIStatusBarStyleDarkContent (note! if you are on 21.3 and min ios version is below ios13 you would need to wrap into @available block)
     
    Alexey, Apr 27, 2023
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  7. marcozakaria

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    I am currently making status bar style default but it always make its color white , doesn't change text color according to content color
    using Unity 2021.3.7 @Alexey

    upload_2023-8-25_22-18-15.png upload_2023-8-25_22-18-44.png
     
    Last edited: Aug 27, 2023
    marcozakaria, Aug 25, 2023
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