In order to get the StatusBar to use white text and a black background, I've had to add the following two config changes to my info.plist
<key>UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance</key>
<false/>
<key>UIStatusBarStyle</key>
<string>UIStatusBarStyleLightContent</string>
The problem is that if I ever make changes to the project in "Properties", this bit of the config gets removed from info.plist.
<key>UIStatusBarStyle</key>
<string>UIStatusBarStyleLightContent</string>
It's super anoying.