On my device (Galaxy S7, Android 7.0), it does affect the status bar. Same for one of Night Screen's dimming methods, which claims not to affect the status bar.

On my device (Galaxy S7, Android 7.0), it does affect the status bar. Same for one of Night Screen's dimming methods, which claims not to affect the status bar. At some point, I'd actually like to reach out to the developers of the (several) screen filter apps on F-droid to see if they're interested in collaboration/merging. It seems silly to have so many of us working on the same kinds of issues, independently.