App’s navigation bar items change background color unexpectedly

iPadOS 26, dark mode

  • Open Safari
  • Search for anything or open a website that has white background
  • Kill Safari
  • Open Safari again

I still can reproduce it with Safari on iPadOS 26.0.1

This issue also happens to my app when opening a HTML/JS on WKWebView with white background while using dark mode. I did send a feedback ticket when using iPadOS 26 beta but havent seen any reply. This is my first time sending a feedback so I dont know if Apple would reply or not.

Hi. Thanks for filing a feedback. Can you share the feedback number? I'd be glad to check the status for you.

Ah sorry I forgot to mention the FB number.

It's FB20214148

Edit: in my app while device using dark mode, the tabbar floats on top of the WKWebView and when the issue happened, the tabbar's background color changes from black/dark to white/light.

App’s navigation bar items change background color unexpectedly
 
 
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