UIContextualAction becomes circular on iOS 26 with Liquid Glass — can the rectangular appearance be preserved?

Hello,

After building with the iOS 26 SDK, a table-view swipe action created with UIContextualAction is displayed as a circular Liquid Glass button instead of the rectangular action used on earlier iOS versions.

This is how my code look UIContextualAction *action = [UIContextualAction contextualActionWithStyle:UIContextualActionStyleNormal title:@"" handler:^(UIContextualAction *action, UIView *sourceView, void (^completionHandler)(BOOL)) { completionHandler(YES); }];

action.backgroundColor = UIColor.systemPurpleColor; action.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"my_action_image"];

UISwipeActionsConfiguration *configuration = [UISwipeActionsConfiguration configurationWithActions:@[action]];

configuration.performsFirstActionWithFullSwipe = NO; return configuration;

Has anyone found a supported workaround that does not require a completely custom swipe implementation?

This occurs only with the new iOS 26 appearance. The same implementation displays correctly on earlier iOS versions.

Thank you.

UIContextualAction becomes circular on iOS 26 with Liquid Glass — can the rectangular appearance be preserved?
 
 
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