Navigation bar push animation glitch in iOS 26

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At a high level, my app’s view hierarchy is a UISplitViewController, where the secondary column contains a UITabBarController that contains several UINavigationControllers. With this particular setup, I’m noticing every time a view controller is pushed, the navigation bar animation glitches.

Notice how the back button and navigation title slightly slide left on each push, before abruptly resetting their positions. This issue only occurs when Liquid Glass is enabled. The issue does not occur if the UIDesignRequiresCompatibility key is added with a value of YES. I assume this is a UIKit bug, so I’ve filed FB20751418. But wondering if anyone is aware of any workarounds in the meantime as this animation glitch is quite distracting.

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DTS Engineer OP

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Thank you for sharing the post and the video demonstrating the issue. Additionally, I appreciate the bug report. Could you reproduce the issue on iOS 26.1 beta 4?

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neil95 OP

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Hi Albert,

Looks like this has improved in 26.1 beta 4! I’m no longer able to reproduce the glitch on every push. There’s still some weirdness where after resizing the sidebar, the next push still causes the back button to reposition itself, but it’s better than before.

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I noticed the status of the bug I filed is “Investigation complete - Unable to diagnose with current information”. I included a screen recording and sample project. Was there anything else I needed to include?

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