Status bar does not reappear after messageView disappears.

[JMchou]

To cover the status bar I set preferStatusBarHidden to true on the config object. However I found that the Status bar remain hidden even after the message view is retracted. I'm not sure if this is an unintended behavior or I'm not using the framework correctly.

[wtmoose]

Can you try 8.0.5? I think this may be the same underlying problem as #446.

[JMchou]

I updated the pod to version 8.0.5, but the problem still persists.

[RSickenberg]

Same issue and 8.0.5 didn't fixed it but 8.0.3 did.

[sbrioux]

This issue also exists with 9.0.4

Any ideas on a future fix?

[RSickenberg]

Also on 9.0.5 😢

[dtroupe18]

While not ideal you could tap into the eventListeners to reset the statusBar

var config: SwiftMessages.Config = .init()
config.prefersStatusBarHidden = true // hide status bar during message
config.presentationContext = .window(windowLevel: .statusBar)

config.eventListeners.append { [weak self] event in

    if case .didHide = event {

        // Unhide the status bar
 
        // This will cause the status bars hidden status to be set by the current viewController.
        self?.setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate()
    }
}

If you wrap your calls to SwiftMessages.show() in another class you could append this event listener to every message (if needed).

[RSickenberg]

If you wrap your calls to SwiftMessages.show() in another class you could append this event listener to every message (if needed).

Or in my case, pass a reference of the underlying viewController and call the method on it.

[fredpi]

Building upon the code posted by @dtroupe18, the following code doesn't require a reference to a specific view controller (self), but still accomplishes the same result:

config.eventListeners.append { event in
    if case .didHide = event {
        UIApplication.shared.windows.first { $0.isKeyWindow }?.rootViewController?.setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate()
    }
}