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iOS Notes 13: How to change Status Bar Color on iOS 13 and Below? [UPDATED v2]

Kuray Ogun

Phlippie Bosman

1 min readOct 4, 2018

‘statusBarView’ is inaccessible due to ‘fileprivate’ protection level

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Written by Phlippie Bosman

iOS developer at Retro Rabbit (https://retrorabbit.co.za)

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Kuray Ogun

Sep 29, 2019

Hello Phlippie,

I’ve updated the article and created a repo :) It should work fine on both iOS 13 and below.

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