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Summary:
There are (at least) 2 situations where status bar transparency is important:

1. On iPhone X, content that the status bar can safely overlap is not drawn at all in the notch. While it may be acceptable to draw certain content with status bar elements overlapping, it isn’t always acceptable for content to be entirely clipped—in this case by the notch.

2. A similar problem happens on on "classic" phones with a double-height status bar. The green/blue/red status bar doesn’t just become twice as tall as the regular status bar, it also becomes opaque (to more cleary show the blinking text). Content that’s fine to be laid out underlapping the transparent status bar there is now covered by a 44pt tall, opaque bar.

Perhaps a `UIDevice.hasTransparentStatusBar` isn’t the best API to accomplish this, but something that developers can use to solve the problems above without having to make device and status bar height/safeAreaInsets checks would be nice.

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Version:
iOS 11

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