title: How do I make the statusbar transparent on iOS without removing it in Ionic 3?
body: <p>I have looked in multiple places for a solution with my statusbar in my Ionic 3 application. On iOS it seems when I call statusbar.hide it simply removes the objects but keeps the placeholder. You can see it in the image below:</p>
  
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  <p>How do I make it transparent but keep the objects? I want the time and numbers to be there, but the statusbar itself to be transparent. </p>