iOS top bar not showing

Question

I am trying to show a top bar in Xcode 9 Swift 4. In my storyboard it shows the top bar as in the below picture:

but when I run it I get this with no top bar:

I tried to use a navigation bar just with a title but it shows as:

the carrier, wifi, time, and battery background is still white. If I set the navigation bar to the top of the screen, it will cover them like:

Why the top bar is not showing? How can achieve something like this?:

UPDATE

Top bar is not a navigation bar. It is kind of just a bar that shows a title. As you can see in the below picture, the register scene doesn't have a navigation bar. I added the top bar from the properties on the right side.

Can you clarify what you mean by top bar? Is it the status bar or the black navigation bar? — ch1maera, Feb 06 '18 at 02:11

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 06 '18 at 01:16

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In your second to last screen, where you show that the navigation bar covers it:

It does not really cover it - but the text of the status bar is black, so you cannot see it. To change it, in the implementation of the GrolocationNewsViewController (or whatever you call it) override preferredStatusBarStyle and return .lightContent:

class GrolocationNewsViewController: UIViewController {

    // rest of the code

    override var preferredStatusBarStyle: UIStatusBarStyle {
        return .lightContent
    }
}

answered Feb 06 '18 at 01:16

Milan Nosáľ

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you're right I used your code and it shows the status in white! – Jumana Alhaddad Feb 07 '18 at 03:10
@JumanaAlhaddad then accept the answer, and if you want to deal with the height of the navigation bar, create a new question – Milan Nosáľ Feb 07 '18 at 08:03

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 07 '18 at 03:15

I have used the code from @Milan Nosáľ answer and it does show the status in white. Then used @Ameya Vichare answer on this link while I was looking for a way to increase the navigation bar height How to change navigationBar height in iOS 11? turn out it is a bug in Xcode 9. Now it shows like what I wanted:

iOS top bar not showing

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