X button disappeared on iPadOS 26.4 in MFMailComposeViewController

I’m using MFMailComposeViewController to send emails from my app. Since updating to iPadOS 26.4, there is no way to cancel the mail composer because the “X” button in the top-left corner has disappeared.

On iPhone with iOS 26.4, everything still seems to work as expected. Is this a known issue, or am I missing something?

Has anyone else experienced this, or found a workaround?

Accepted Answer

As a workaround, the mail composer is no longer presented fullscreen, allowing it to be dismissed by tapping outside the mail window. An updated version of the app has been submitted for review following user reports.

There already seems to be an internal ticket, see https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/748447?answerId=881302022#881302022.

Let us hope this bug will be fixed in iPadOS 26.4.1.

@DTS Engineer: Unfortunately, this bug is still present in iPadOS 26.4.2. Do you have any updates you can share?

Unfortunately, this bug is still present in iPadOS 26.5.

We have the same problem since iPadOS 26.4 and the bug is still present in the latest iPadOS 26.5. It seems that something is overlaying it or the close/cancel Button disappear after second in my example: .sheet(isPresented: $showMail) { MailView(recipient: mailadress, subject: "Hello", body: "Message") { result in ... }

X button disappeared on iPadOS 26.4 in MFMailComposeViewController
 
 
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