It creates a more immersive and modern-looking viewing experience. This transparent status bar aligns with Ambient mode in the video player. However, it's not all good news.

In Android 14 Beta 1, Google is finally addressing a long-standing complaint with the navigation bar appearance that finally forces apps to have a “transparent” navigation bar.

We’re now seeing a transparent navigation bar that helps make the results page look as modern as the Circle to Search overlay. This change is very apparent for those using 3-button navigation ...

The Google Phone app has replaced its solid status bar with a transparent one. Design consistency is key in Google's suite of apps on Android. Edge-to-edge display mode could soon be mandatory for ...