Toolbar tint color with Liquid Glass

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I'm adapting a UIKit app to work with Liquid Glass. In pre-Liquid Glass days, the application window had a tintColor that was passed down to all of its descendant views, resulting in toolbar buttons that match the app's color scheme.

In iOS 26, my toolbar buttons are always black, no matter what. I've tried setting the UIBarButtonItem#tintColor on the button and setting UIBarButtonAppearanc#tintColor.

The buttons are still black. What am I doing wrong? I see a tintColor modifier for SwiftUI toolbar buttons, so it seems like maybe you can do this with SwiftUI.

Many of the built-in apps on iOS 26 beta have only black toolbar buttons - is it not possible to change the toolbar button tint color on iOS 26?

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RickMaddy OP

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There are several existing discussions on this bug. Many people have filed bug reports since beta 1. So far it seems as if Apple really wants black and white interfaces starting with iOS 26.

The tintColor of UIBarButtonItem can work in some cases. Basically only for prominent buttons not made with a custom view.

Feel free to file a bug report. Maybe one more will be enough for Apple to fix the problem.

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