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ios 26.1 PWA full screen broken

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rubikwizard

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Sep 9, 2023
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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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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.
 
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.

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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.
 
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I too noticed yesterday that my PWA in both iOS and iPadOS 26.1 is now rendered with an opaque status bar (whose color seems to be dependent to that of the website background) at the top instead of being full screen. This was not the case in 26.0 and previous versions. I attempted to modify a few elements in my CSS and manifest.json files to rectify this issue, but unfortunately, it did not work.

I have submitted a bug report to Apple Feedback Assistant, and I suggest that everyone in this thread do the same. If Apple receives a significant number of complaints about this issue, it increases the likelihood that they will address and fix it.
 
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I have submitted a bug report to Apple Feedback Assistant, and I suggest that everyone in this thread do the same. If Apple receives a significant number of complaints about this issue, it increases the likelihood that they will address and fix it.
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Yes I have done this too.
 
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Updated from iOS 18 to 26.1, and in my PWA everything looks fine... my app’s top header blends with the top area as before, and scroll-away headers now go under it, which works nicely. I actually like this. Before updating my content got pushed under the system icons when OSK push the viewport. Also scroll away header went there. But did a fade out.

The big bug: if I rotate from landscape to portrait, the system icons disappear, but they come back when I open the soft keyboard. Hoping this gets properly fixed soon so the system info doesn’t bug out.

Always something weird with the soft keyboard or this top area. 😅 Wish we could have better control over it.

Let's see what the update brings.
 
Yes I noticed the blending in the top area in 26.1 (see post #3 above) in one of my apps (SQL Academy), but others that render directly to canvas (Mandelscope and Graphiti) get hidden under top bar (see post #1 above). Before ios 26 all rendered all the way to the top under the notch area. Lets hope for 26.2!!!
 
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