iOS 15 Status Bar Background Color in SwiftUI/UIKit Nav mix

We have an app which uses a mix of UIKit and SwiftUI. The nav hierarchy is:

UIKit Tab Bar > UIKit Table > SwiftUI View > UIKit View

as of iOS 15 the status bar is not taking on the color of the nav bar:

I'm trying to figure out if this is something I can fix.

Looking in Reveal it looks as tho the UIHostingView has a white bg:

Is it possible write code to change the bg color of the status bar in this setup?

This doesn't seem possible in a UIViewControllerRepresentable? And the hosted view is not taking up the whole screen, so changing that has no impact(?)

import SwiftUI
import PaddleCloud

struct PaddleMapView: UIViewControllerRepresentable {
    typealias UIViewControllerType = MapViewController

    var trip: Trip
    var tripSpeeds: TripSpeeds
    
    func makeUIViewController(context: Context) -> MapViewController {
        let sb = UIStoryboard(name: "Map", bundle: nil)
        let mapVC = sb.instantiateInitialViewController() as! MapViewController
        mapVC.trip = trip
        mapVC.tripSpeeds = tripSpeeds

        return mapVC
    }
    

    
}

NB: Changing the bg color in reveal does not change anything in the app.