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 ...

Google is adding improved support for a transparent navigation bar in its Chrome browser, making web content more immersive. Chrome 120 fixes issues with cutoff elements at the top of the screen ...

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 ...