Thanks for the post a the details including the screenshots showing exactly what you are seeing. Yes, there are many changes after Liquid Glass. Your understanding is 100% correct. Rebuilding a UITabBar entirely from scratch is a massive undertaking for a complex app. Because of this maintenance burden and the risk of breaking standard navigation paradigms, replacing the standard UITabBar with a custom view is generally not the recommended path forward. When the Liquid Glass appearance is enabled, the selected capsule is the system-standard visual indicator for the active tab. The framework enforces this specific visual treatment to maintain a consistent design language and accessibility standard across all the different systems. Because Liquid Glass relies on a specific compositing and rendering pipeline to achieve that look, standard legacy overrides are often ignored or overridden by the system to ensure the capsule remains visible. Since you mentioned that disabling Liquid Glass gives you the exa
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