ios 26.1 PWA full screen broken

[rubikwizard]

Since installing ios 26.1 today all of my PWAs can no longer draw to the full screen. There is now a bar across the top (first image). So annoying, and they still haven't fixed the PWA audio bug either.

EDIT: Landscape can still draw fullscreen, but portrait cannot.

EDIT 2: after rotating to landscape, then rotating back to portrait - the time and battery level and other indicators all vanish (image 2), although opaque bar is still visible. Definitely strange behaviour, and happens on all PWAs whether they are meant to be full screen or not

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[Starfia]

Good catch. My instinct is to think this is something deliberate (and difficult to find documentation on), even though too many little non-deliberate things like this seem to sneak in. Please send feedback if it turns out to be the latter.

 

[rubikwizard]

Even stranger this PWA has the top bar transparent and I can see the content underneath it. My other PWAs have solid top bar, and yet implemented all of them using the same code. Again you can see time etc. has disappeared after rotating from landscape back to portrait.

 

[BigMcGuire]

Several of my applications that I’ve used now have this annoying bar at the top. I think it’s something related to iOS 26 because they weren’t there with iOS 18.

 

[rubikwizard]

Several of my applications that I’ve used now have this annoying bar at the top. I think it’s something related to iOS 26 because they weren’t there with iOS 18.

iOS 26.0.1 was fine too. It is specifically this week's iOS 26.1 that has broken it.

 

[rubikwizard]

just updated iPad. That broken too. Exactly same issue