Navigation bar fade breaks when using .ignoresSafeArea() on inverted ScrollViews in iOS 26

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I’m seeing a strange visual bug in iOS 26 when building chat-style UIs that use an inverted ScrollView or List (via .rotationEffect(.radians(.pi)) and .scaleEffect(x: -1, y: 1)) to anchor messages at the bottom.

When I add .ignoresSafeArea() to let the chat bleed behind the navigation bar - the new navigation bar fade (that subtle top-to-bottom gradient Apple added in iOS 26) behaves incorrectly. Instead of fading from the top of the screen toward the nav bar, it fades upward from the bottom of the view, effectively covering the entire screen with the gradient.

This only happens when the view is inverted. If I remove .ignoresSafeArea(), the fade looks correct — but then my chat no longer extends behind the nav bar.

It looks like the fade effect is being applied in the transformed coordinate space of the inverted scroll view rather than in visual screen space. I haven’t found a reliable workaround besides disabling the fade (which isn’t really possible).

Has anyone found a proper solution or a modifier that prevents the fade inversion when using flipped ScrollViews? Would love to know if Apple is aware of this or if there’s a hidden API for disabling that fade effect.

I have made a report about this in Feedback Assistant: FB20540755

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Thank you for sharing this information. I appreciate the bug report FB20540755 you submitted. However, I noticed that you did not provide a specific sample project that demonstrates the issue. To ensure the engineering team can reproduce the problem efficiently, I recommend uploading a focused sample project that clearly illustrates the issue. You have provided instructions on how to reproduce the problem, so I encourage you to follow these steps and submit the sample project to the team.

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