Status bar's style issue

I need a "Light content" status bar for my iOS 8 app but it will show up as Dark. This thing persits and I can't get it work.

Some things I have tried

• Setting the Status bar style in the Info.plist
• Setting the style through code with UIApplication
• Trying to set the UINavigationBar
• Setting the Status bar property for UIViewControllers

None of the above works, I get a "Light content" on the Loading Screen storyboard but it gets dark as soon as it loads the starting UIViewController from the storyboard. Any thoughts why this is happening? Thank you.