Change status bar text color to light in iOS 9 with Objective-C

First set

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent];

Go to your AppDelegate, find itsdidFinishLaunchingWithOptions method and do:

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent];

}

and then set View controller-based status bar appearance equal to NO in plist.

Using a UINavigationController and setting its navigation bar's barStyle to .Black. past this line in your AppDelegate.m file.

navigationController.navigationBar.barStyle = UIBarStyleBlack;

If you are not using UINavigationController then add following code in your ViewController.m file.

- (UIStatusBarStyle)preferredStatusBarStyle
{
    return UIStatusBarStyleLightContent;
}

And call the method to this line :

[self setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate];

If you want to change Status Bar Style from the launch screen, You should take this way.

1. Go to Project -> Target,

2. Set Status Bar Style to Light

3. Set View controller-based status bar appearance to NO in Info.plist.