Another PWA / Status Bar Question

Hi all,

For some reason, I can’t get my status bar to be white with black text when saving to the home screen on iOS:
Screen Shot 2023-08-01 at 9.15.57 am

I have used the following settings:

I’ve followed instructions in this post:

I’ also tried following additional instructions in another post, but get even weirder results (background is transparent with white time/battery etc.):

Can anyone help :frowning:

Thanks !

On further inspection, ‘black’ and ‘black-translucent’ seem to result in the expected behaviour, however, default does not:

content=“black” (bar is black with white text)


content=“black-translucent” (bar is transparent with white text)


content=“default” (bar should be white with black text, but just shows all black)

Solved with some random comment I found on a Youtube video, you need to add:

Following is the full config of my meta tags to successfully have black text on white background:


This topic was automatically closed after 70 days. New replies are no longer allowed.