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Wear OS adding ‘system status bar’ to apps, Wear OS 7.1 coming - 9to5Google
Publisher description: Earlier this week, Google revealed that a “later platform release of Wear OS” is adding a “system status bar.”
NewsAPI | Nov 1, 2026 | Abner Li
Automated excerpt
As of this preview, “the system status bar displays a placeholder star icon instead of final system status indicators.” Automatic coordination in Jetpack Compose for Wear OS: When your app targets API level 35 or higher and compiles against Compose for Wear OS version 1.8.0-alpha02 or higher, AppScaffold and ScreenScaffold automatically opt your app in to the system status bar. Time text is handled by the system: AppScaffold suppresses its in-app TimeText clock so that only the system status bar time appears.
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