On my app, some custom views are behind the navigation bar. On systems below iOS 26, I use this code to make the navigation bar transparent： self.navigationController.navigationBar.translucent = YES; self.navigationController.navigationBar.barTintColor = [UIColor clearColor]; [self.navigationController.navigationBar setBackgroundImage:[[UIImage alloc] init] forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault]; [self.navigationController.navigationBar setShadowImage:[[UIImage alloc] init]]; It works fine and the custom views show up well. But on iOS 26, the navigation bar adds a gradient layer, so the custom views get blocked, which looks a bit weird.
Is there a way to remove the gradient layer from the iOS 26 navigation bar?