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.

Hello. Thanks for sending the bug number. Looking at the status of your bug report it has been classified as a duplicate. Tracing through to the original bug I can see it is still under active investigation.

Please continue testing your software in new system software updates and beta releases as they become available. And please update the status of your bug whenever you do a new test. Please see https://developer.apple.com/download/ for the most recent beta releases.

Thanks for the update. Is there any workaround at this moment?

App’s navigation bar items change background color unexpectedly
 
 
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