Cannot set status bar to light content (iOS7)

Question

Firstly, I have tried every answer on this thread: How to change Status Bar text color in iOS 7 but I am unable to get the status bar to appear with white text.

On app start-up, the text does appear white before it loads into my root view controller. I think the issue is that my root view controller is set to not show the status bar (what I intend) but every other view needs to show it.

When I go to my second view I see the status bar text flash from white to black where it stays.

I have tried setting the status bar to light in the AppDelegate.

I have tried calling [self setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate] in the rootViewController and in other viewcontrollers. (with -(UIStatusBarStyle)preferredStatusBarStyle set to return light)

I have set UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance to YES in the plist.

I have no clue why this isn't working...

Answer 1

Try self.navController.navigationBar.barStyle = UIBarStyleBlack;