iOS 7: Force white text for clock/battery

Question

I am trying to figure out how to force the color of the clock/battery/carrier to be white in iOS 7. I am also curious if the

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Answer 1

Figured it out! I just have to go into my Info.plst file and set View controller-based status bar appearance to NO, and then add this to my AppDeligate.m file:

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent];