Xamarin Forms iOS Status Bar Text Color
I cannot change the color of the text in the status bar of my XAMAIN Forms iOS app to white. I changed my info.plist like this:
<key>UIStatusBarStyle</key>
<string>UIStatusBarStyleLightContent</string>
<key>UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance</key>
<false/>
However, the color is still black. Is there any other way to change the color of the status bar text?
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In Xamarin.Forms, there are three things you need to do to get white text on the iOS status bar. I also posted a sample Xamarin.Forms app that uses white text in the iOS status bar.
1. Update Info.plist
In Info.plist
add View controller-based status bar appearance
Boolean Property View controller-based status bar appearance
and set its valueNo
2. Use NavigationPage and set the text color of the navigation bar to white
The class Application
(usually App.cs
) MainPage
must be NavigationPage
, and BarTextColor
must be set toColor.White
3. Clean and restore the application
Sometimes the compiler won't update the status bar color until you clean and rebuild the app, so after making the changes in steps 1 and 2, clean the app and rebuild it. 
Sample Application
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The only way to change the status bar in IOS for me is to use this code in FinishedLaunching in AppDelegate
public override bool FinishedLaunching(UIApplication app, NSDictionary options)
{
global::Xamarin.Forms.Forms.Init ();
LoadApplication (.....);
app.SetStatusBarStyle(UIStatusBarStyle.LightContent, true);
return base.FinishedLaunching (app, options);
}
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So what I did to change the status bar color and status bar color:
Info.plist
<key>UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance</key>
<false/>
<key>UIStatusBarHidden</key>
<true/>
AppDelegate
Inside the FinishedLaunching () function, add the code below:
UIView statusBar = UIApplication.SharedApplication.ValueForKey(new NSString("statusBar")) as UIView;
if (statusBar != null && statusBar.RespondsToSelector(new ObjCRuntime.Selector("setBackgroundColor:")))
{
statusBar.BackgroundColor = Color.FromHex("#7f6550").ToUIColor(); // change to your desired color
}
App.xaml
I added below code to change the status bar text color to White.
<Style TargetType="{x:Type NavigationPage}">
<!--<Setter Property="BarBackgroundColor" Value="Black" />-->
<Setter Property="BarTextColor" Value="White" />
</Style>
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