Black status bar or integrated with the application

[iOSOS]

iOS 7 features the status bar within applications. I feel that a black status bar would look better and it would be easier to read the information. what do you think? A integrated status bar or a status bar apart from the design?

Musix app by Scardi Shek

The Verge iOS 7 Photo Gallery

 

[KeanosMagicHat]

Definitely the translucent status bar, providing Apple can tweak the algorithm that changes the text from white to black depending on the background.

 

[8a22a]

I prefer integrated.

 

[WordMasterRice]

It really depends on how well it's integrated. In iOS 6 I thought that the tinted statusbar was pretty hideous and when I jailbroke I immediately got a tweak that turned it black always. However, the iOS 7 statusbar integration is excellent and IMO makes the statusbar even less noticeable than the all black version.

 

[ominx]

I think the status bar looks best in OS X and I think it should've been brought over. It's very similar to the dock with its translucency, but the text is always black and it has a small drop shadow that allows it to work nicely with both light and dark wallpapers.