I discovered that if your ViewController is inside a navigationController then the navigationController’s navigationBar.barStyle
determines
the statusBarStyle.
Setting your navigationBar’s barStyle
to UIBarStyleBlackTranslucent
will
give white status bar text (ie. UIStatusBarStyleLightContent
),
and UIBarStyleDefault
will
give black status bar text (ie. UIStatusBarStyleDefault
).
Note that this applies even if you totally change the navigationBar’s color via its barTintColor
.