iOS26 Liquid Glass issue

[wmps-davew]

Bug Report

Problem

With release of iOS26 and Liquid Glass, done/close button in footer toolbar looks incorrect when built using latest release.

What is expected to happen?

Maintain existing look and feel, or adjust to include specific configuration for Liquid Glass

What does actually happen?

Done/close button is converted to a restyled button, and ignores any settings.

Information

Example

Before:

After:

This can be fixed by using "UIDesignRequiresCompatibility" set to "YES" in the info.plist, however this is noted as being a temporary solution and should not be used for production/release.

Command or Code

Simply build and deploy on latest SDK using iOS26 device.

Environment, Platform, Device

Mac OS 26 and iOS 26 device

Version information

Cordova 12.0.0
Cordova iOS 7.1.1
inappbrowser 6.0.0

Checklist

• I searched for existing GitHub issues
• I updated all Cordova tooling to most recent version
• I included all the necessary information above

[mvaljento]

This repo has 256 open issues and was last updated several years ago. I wonder if this is ever going to be solved... :/

[xavierserrai]

There is another way to remove that glass effect without using UIDesignRequiresCompatibility:

if ( @available(iOS 26.0, *) ) {
  self.closeButton.hidesSharedBackground = true;
  self.closeButton.sharesBackground = false;
}

In each of the affected buttons.

Thanks,

[dogoku]

It's not the best, but my solution was to detect ios version (I use @capacitor/device, for cordova use capacitor's device plugin) and then I override the closebuttoncolor and navigationbuttoncolor (not sure if i need the 2nd one)

    const info = await Device.getInfo();
    const osVersion = parseInt(info.osVersion);

    if (info.platform === "ios" && osVersion >= 26) {
      iabOptions.closebuttoncolor = "#000000";
      iabOptions.navigationbuttoncolor = "#000000";
    }

If I am not mistaken, the bg color of the button depends on what is it on top of (It starts off as black and then it goes into a light gray color when sitting on top of my app background). I tested this in both Light and Dark mode (on iOS Simulator > Features menu > Toggle Appearance or press cmd+shift+A ), there is no difference.

As a side note, the toolbar color is also no longer applied. Not sure if I am doing something wrong.