Put the document tool bar back under the status bar - #155
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The bar was sized to safe area top + 44 and pinned to the top of the view, a 2019 trick for reaching under the notch: it worked as long as UIToolbar laid its items out along the bottom of an over-tall frame. iOS 26 puts them along the top instead, so the buttons landed on the status bar - clipped by the top of the screen - and the rest of the bar was an empty band between them and whatever came next, the banner in the free edition and the document itself in the paid one. The bar is its own height now, pinned to the safe area, which is where every version of iOS puts a bar's content anyway. The measuring-stick view behind the trick goes with it, and the root view takes systemBackground rather than white, since the strip behind the status bar is now its background and not the bar's. From iOS 26 the buttons are glass capsules that fill the bar's whole height, so what is pinned to its bottom edge meets them with nothing in between and cuts them off; they get 8 points of room there, and nothing before iOS 26, where the bar has a background of its own and the same margin would only show as a band of nothing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Q1T4UTUxDqjCGUn3Uiyhkj
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It was an arranged subview of the stack the tool bar sits in, and at the same time pinned to the banner's bottom edge in code - two answers to where it goes, which Auto Layout settles by breaking one of them. The answers agreed while everything between the two was zero high, so the contradiction never showed; the margin under the tool bar pulls them 8 points apart on iOS 26, and a document with more than one page is what puts the tab bar on screen to see it. The code's answer is the one that is used, so the tab bar becomes a plain subview and the stack is left with what it lays out: the tool bar and the progress bar. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Q1T4UTUxDqjCGUn3Uiyhkj
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Everything under Unreleased is in: the tool bar sitting on the status bar (#155), the chevron and the pencil (#156), and a document fitted to the screen (#157). That is a version, so the heading is cut to 1.40 and the store copy for it written. No date and no compare link on the heading: v1.40 is written when the drafted release is published, and this file says to wait for the tag. The Unreleased link stays on v1.39...HEAD for the same reason. Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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A user reported that the buttons above an open document overlap the system bar, and that there is a gap between them and the ad below.
Both come from one constraint. The tool bar was sized to
safe area top + 44and pinned to the top of the view — a 2019 trick for reaching under the notch, which held as long asUIToolbarlaid its items out along the bottom of an over-tall frame. iOS 26 lays them out along the top instead, so:The bar is now its own height, pinned to the safe area, which is where every version of iOS puts a bar's content anyway. The hidden measuring-stick view the trick needed goes with it, and the root view takes
systemBackgroundinstead of hardcoded white, since the strip behind the status bar is now its background rather than the bar's.One thing does not follow from that. From iOS 26 the buttons are glass capsules that fill the bar's whole height, so anything pinned to its bottom edge meets them with nothing in between and cuts them off. They get 8 points of room there, and nothing before iOS 26, where the bar has a background of its own and the same margin only shows as a band of nothing.
Checked in the simulator
Both editions, on both sides of the change in bar layout — iPhone 17 Pro on iOS 26.0 and iPhone 16 Pro on iOS 18.4, opening
test.odt:Geometry was measured directly off the view as well, at a 59pt safe area inset: the bar ran
0 … 157before and runs59 … 107after, with the banner slot following it immediately. On iOS 17.5 and 18.4 the bar comes out 44 points tall and on iOS 26 48, in both cases starting at the safe area top.The unit tests pass on iOS 18.4, and
scripts/format.sh --checkis clean.Screenshots of all four combinations are in the working tree but deliberately not committed.
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