@serenn上面的回答对于UINavigationControllers来说仍然是一个很好的例子。然而，对于swift 3, childViewController函数已经被更改为vars。所以UINavigationController扩展代码应该是:

override open var childViewControllerForStatusBarStyle: UIViewController? {
  return topViewController
}

override open var childViewControllerForStatusBarHidden: UIViewController? {
  return topViewController
}

然后在视图控制器中，它应该指示状态栏的样式:

override var preferredStatusBarStyle: UIStatusBarStyle {
   return .lightContent
}

注意，当使用self.navigationController.navigationBar.barStyle = UIBarStyleBlack;解决方案

请确保进入你的plist并设置“基于视图控制器的状态栏外观”为YES。如果不是，它将不起作用。

iOS 7中的UIStatusBarStyle

iOS 7的状态栏是透明的，它后面的视图是透视的。

状态栏的样式是指其内容的外观。在ios7中，状态栏内容要么是暗的(UIStatusBarStyleDefault)，要么是亮的(UIStatusBarStyleLightContent)。uistatusbarstyleblack半透明和UIStatusBarStyleBlackOpaque在iOS 7.0中已弃用。使用UIStatusBarStyleLightContent代替。

如何改变UIStatusBarStyle

如果状态栏下面是一个导航栏，状态栏的样式将被调整以匹配导航栏的样式(UINavigationBar.barStyle):

具体来说，如果导航栏样式是UIBarStyleDefault，状态栏样式将是UIStatusBarStyleDefault;如果导航栏样式是UIBarStyleBlack，状态栏样式将是UIStatusBarStyleLightContent。

如果状态栏下面没有导航栏，状态栏样式可以在应用程序运行时由单个视图控制器控制和更改。

-[UIViewController preferredStatusBarStyle]是ios7新增的方法。它可以被重写以返回首选的状态栏样式:

- (UIStatusBarStyle)preferredStatusBarStyle
  {
      return UIStatusBarStyleLightContent;
  }

如果状态栏样式应该由子视图控制器控制，而不是由self控制，重写-[UIViewController childViewControllerForStatusBarStyle]以返回子视图控制器。

如果你想选择退出这个行为，并通过使用-[UIApplication statusBarStyle]方法设置状态栏样式，添加UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance键到应用程序的信息。plist文件并给它赋值NO。

对于iOS 13.4, UINavigationController类别中的preferredStatusBarStyle方法将不会被调用，swizzling似乎是唯一的选择，不需要使用子类。

例子:

分类标题:

@interface UINavigationController (StatusBarStyle)
+ (void)setUseLightStatusBarStyle;
@end

实现:

#import "UINavigationController+StatusBarStyle.h"
#import <objc/runtime.h>

@implementation UINavigationController (StatusBarStyle)

void (^swizzle)(Class, SEL, SEL) = ^(Class c, SEL orig, SEL new){
    Method origMethod = class_getInstanceMethod(c, orig);
    Method newMethod = class_getInstanceMethod(c, new);
    if(class_addMethod(c, orig, method_getImplementation(newMethod), method_getTypeEncoding(newMethod)))
        class_replaceMethod(c, new, method_getImplementation(origMethod), method_getTypeEncoding(origMethod));
    else
        method_exchangeImplementations(origMethod, newMethod);
};

+ (void)setUseLightStatusBarStyle {
    swizzle(self.class, @selector(preferredStatusBarStyle), @selector(_light_preferredStatusBarStyle));
}

- (UIStatusBarStyle)_light_preferredStatusBarStyle {
    return UIStatusBarStyleLightContent;
}    
@end

在AppDelegate.h中的用法:

#import "UINavigationController+StatusBarStyle.h"

[UINavigationController setUseLightStatusBarStyle];

所以我实际上添加了一个category到UINavigationController，但是使用了这些方法:

-(UIViewController *)childViewControllerForStatusBarStyle;
-(UIViewController *)childViewControllerForStatusBarHidden;

让它们返回当前可见的UIViewController。这让当前可见视图控制器设置它自己的首选样式/可见性。

下面是它的完整代码片段:

迅速:

extension UINavigationController {

    public override func childViewControllerForStatusBarHidden() -> UIViewController? {
        return self.topViewController
    }

    public override func childViewControllerForStatusBarStyle() -> UIViewController? {
        return self.topViewController
    }
}

在objective - c中:

@interface UINavigationController (StatusBarStyle)

@end

@implementation UINavigationController (StatusBarStyle)

-(UIViewController *)childViewControllerForStatusBarStyle {
    return self.topViewController;
}

-(UIViewController *)childViewControllerForStatusBarHidden {
    return self.topViewController;
}

@end

为了更好地衡量，这是它如何在UIViewController中实现的:

在斯威夫特

override public func preferredStatusBarStyle() -> UIStatusBarStyle {
    return .LightContent
}

override func prefersStatusBarHidden() -> Bool {
    return false
}

在objective - c中

-(UIStatusBarStyle)preferredStatusBarStyle {
    return UIStatusBarStyleLightContent; // your own style
}

- (BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden {
    return NO; // your own visibility code
}

最后，确保你的app plist没有将“基于视图控制器的状态栏外观”设置为NO。要么删除这一行，要么将其设置为YES(我相信这是iOS 7的默认设置?)

这是我解决这个问题的方法。

定义一个名为AGViewControllerAppearance的协议。

AGViewControllerAppearance.h

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

@protocol AGViewControllerAppearance <NSObject>

@optional

- (BOOL)showsStatusBar;
- (BOOL)animatesStatusBarVisibility;
- (UIStatusBarStyle)preferredStatusBarStyle;
- (UIStatusBarAnimation)prefferedStatusBarAnimation;

@end

在UIViewController上定义一个名为Upgrade的类别。

UIViewController+Upgrade.h

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

@interface UIViewController (Upgrade)

//
//  Replacements
//

- (void)upgradedViewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated;

@end

UIViewController+Upgrade.m

#import "UIViewController+Upgrade.h"

#import <objc/runtime.h>

#import "AGViewControllerAppearance.h" // This is the appearance protocol

@implementation UIViewController (Upgrade)

+ (void)load
{
#pragma clang diagnostic push
#pragma clang diagnostic ignored "-Wselector"
    Method viewWillAppear = class_getInstanceMethod(self, @selector(viewWillAppear:));
#pragma clang diagnostic pop
    Method upgradedViewWillAppear = class_getInstanceMethod(self, @selector(upgradedViewWillAppear:));
    method_exchangeImplementations(viewWillAppear, upgradedViewWillAppear);
}

#pragma mark - Implementation

- (void)upgradedViewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
    //
    //  Call the original message (it may be a little confusing that we're
    //  calling the 'same' method, but we're actually calling the original one :) )
    //

    [self upgradedViewWillAppear:animated];

    //
    //  Implementation
    //

    if ([self conformsToProtocol:@protocol(AGViewControllerAppearance)])
    {
        UIViewController <AGViewControllerAppearance> *viewControllerConformingToAppearance =
        (UIViewController <AGViewControllerAppearance> *)self;

        //
        //  Status bar
        //

        if ([viewControllerConformingToAppearance respondsToSelector:@selector(preferredStatusBarStyle)])
        {
            BOOL shouldAnimate = YES;

            if ([viewControllerConformingToAppearance respondsToSelector:@selector(animatesStatusBarVisibility)])
            {
                shouldAnimate = [viewControllerConformingToAppearance animatesStatusBarVisibility];
            }

            [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:[viewControllerConformingToAppearance preferredStatusBarStyle]
                                                        animated:shouldAnimate];
        }

        if ([viewControllerConformingToAppearance respondsToSelector:@selector(showsStatusBar)])
        {
            UIStatusBarAnimation animation = UIStatusBarAnimationSlide;

            if ([viewControllerConformingToAppearance respondsToSelector:@selector(prefferedStatusBarAnimation)])
            {
                animation = [viewControllerConformingToAppearance prefferedStatusBarAnimation];
            }

            [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:(! [viewControllerConformingToAppearance showsStatusBar])
                                                    withAnimation:animation];
        }
    }
}

@end

现在，是时候说你的视图控制器正在实现AGViewControllerAppearance协议。

例子:

@interface XYSampleViewController () <AGViewControllerAppearance>

... the rest of the interface

@end

当然，你可以实现其余的方法(showsStatusBar, animatesStatusBarVisibility, prefereredstatusbaranimation)从协议和UIViewController+升级将做适当的 基于它们提供的值进行定制。