You see the status bar nearly everywhere on your iPhone, and it almost always looks the same. But there are a few tricks you can use to spice things up a bit — without having to jailbreak your iPhone. The status bar's background on iOS is transparent, so you'll see different colors and gradients as you switch from app to app. Some developers hide the status bar altogether in their apps, like for games and media viewers. You can't change the color of your status bar manually without affecting the rest of the system, such as when using Dark Mode, Color Filters, and other tools that change the... more
