在Swift中，对于任何类型的UIViewController:

在你的AppDelegate集合中:

func application(application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [NSObject: AnyObject]?) -> Bool {
    window!.rootViewController = myRootController
    return true
}

myRootController可以是任何类型的UIViewController，例如UITabBarController或UINavigationController。

然后，像这样重写这个根控制器:

class RootController: UIViewController {
    override func preferredStatusBarStyle() -> UIStatusBarStyle {
        return .LightContent
    }
}

这将改变状态栏在整个应用程序中的外观，因为根控制器只负责状态栏的外观。

记住在你的信息中将基于视图控制器的状态栏外观属性设置为YES。Plist使其工作(这是默认值)。

在UINavigationController上，preferredStatusBarStyle不会被调用，因为它的topViewController优先于self。所以，要在UINavigationController上调用preferredStatusBarStyle，你需要改变它的childForStatusBarStyle (Swift) / childViewControllerForStatusBarStyle (ObjC)。

建议

重写你类中的UINavigationController:

class MyRootNavigationController: UINavigationController {
    override var preferredStatusBarStyle: UIStatusBarStyle {
        return .lightContent
    }
    override var childForStatusBarStyle: UIViewController? {
        return nil
    }
}

非推荐替代方案

要为所有UINavigationController做这件事，你可以在一个扩展中覆盖(警告:它会影响UIDocumentPickerViewController, UIImagePickerController等)，但你可能不应该根据Swift文档这样做:

extension UINavigationController {
    open override var preferredStatusBarStyle: UIStatusBarStyle {
        return .lightContent
    }
    open override var childForStatusBarStyle: UIViewController? {
        return nil
    }
}

可能的根本原因

我也遇到了同样的问题，我发现这是因为我没有在我的应用程序窗口中设置根视图控制器。

我在UIViewController中实现了preferredStatusBarStyle，在UITabBarController中使用，它控制了屏幕上视图的外观。

当我设置根视图控制器指向这个UITabBarController时，状态栏的变化开始正确工作，正如预期的那样(preferredStatusBarStyle方法正在被调用)。

(BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
{
    ... // other view controller loading/setup code

    self.window.rootViewController = rootTabBarController;
    [self.window makeKeyAndVisible];
    return YES;
}

替代方法(在iOS 9中已弃用)

另外，你也可以在每个视图控制器中调用以下方法之一，这取决于它的背景颜色，而不是必须使用setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate:

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent];

or

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleDefault];

注意，如果你使用这个方法，你还需要在plist文件中将UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance设置为NO。

对于任何使用UINavigationController的人:

UINavigationController不会转发preferredStatusBarStyle调用给它的子视图控制器。相反，它管理自己的状态——就像它应该做的那样，它在屏幕顶部绘制状态栏，因此应该对状态栏负责。因此，在导航控制器中实现preferredStatusBarStyle在vc中什么都不会做——它们永远不会被调用。

诀窍是UINavigationController使用什么来决定UIStatusBarStyleDefault或uistatusbarstyelightcontent返回什么。它基于它的UINavigationBar.barStyle。默认的(UIBarStyleDefault)导致前景UIStatusBarStyleDefault状态栏为黑色。UIBarStyleBlack会给出一个uistatusbarstyelightcontent状态栏。

TL; diana:

如果你想在UINavigationController上使用UIStatusBarStyleLightContent:

self.navigationController.navigationBar.barStyle = UIBarStyleBlack;

Swift 4.2及以上版本

正如所选答案中提到的，根本原因是检查您的窗口根视图控制器对象。

流结构的可能情况

Custom UIViewController object is window root view controller Your window root view controller is a UIViewController object and it further adds or removes navigation controller or tabController based on your application flow. This kind of flow is usually used if your app has pre login flow on navigation stack without tabs and post login flow with tabs and possibly every tab further holds navigation controller. TabBarController object is window root view controller This is the flow where window root view controller is tabBarController possibly every tab further holds navigation controller. NavigationController object is window root view controller This is the flow where window root view controller is navigationController. I am not sure if there is any possibility to add tab bar controller or new navigation controller in an existing navigation controller. But if there is such case, we need to pass the status bar style control to the next container. So, I added the same check in UINavigationController extension to find childForStatusBarStyle

使用以下扩展，它处理所有上述场景-

extension UITabBarController {
    open override var childForStatusBarStyle: UIViewController? {
        return selectedViewController?.childForStatusBarStyle ?? selectedViewController
    }
}

extension UINavigationController {
    open override var childForStatusBarStyle: UIViewController? {
        return topViewController?.childForStatusBarStyle ?? topViewController
    }
}

extension AppRootViewController {
    open override var preferredStatusBarStyle: UIStatusBarStyle {
        return children.first { $0.childForStatusBarStyle != nil }?.childForStatusBarStyle?.preferredStatusBarStyle ?? .default
    }
}

在info中你不需要UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance键。Plist默认为true

对于更复杂的流程，需要考虑的要点

In case you present new flow modally, it detaches from the existing status bar style flow. So, suppose you are presenting a NewFlowUIViewController and then add new navigation or tabBar controller to NewFlowUIViewController, then add extension of NewFlowUIViewController as well to manage further view controller's status bar style. In case you set modalPresentationStyle other than fullScreen while presenting modally, you must set modalPresentationCapturesStatusBarAppearance to true so that presented view controller must receive status bar appearance control.

大多数答案都不包括UINavigationController的childViewControllerForStatusBarStyle方法的良好实现。根据我的经验，你应该处理这样的情况，当透明的视图控制器在导航控制器。在这些情况下，你应该把控制传递给你的模态控制器(visibleViewController)，但不要在它消失的时候。

override var childViewControllerForStatusBarStyle: UIViewController? {
  var childViewController = visibleViewController
  if let controller = childViewController, controller.isBeingDismissed {
    childViewController = topViewController
  }
  return childViewController?.childViewControllerForStatusBarStyle ?? childViewController
}