iPad app PDF reader glitch

bruec · 2025-10-01T17:34:38+00:00

When viewing a PDF on my iPad, hiding the toolbar leaves a grey rectangle at the top of the screen. Sometimes the rectangle appears when the toolbar is active, but the toolbar is pushed up into the top of the screen, making it difficult to tap the buttons (for example, search or show annotations). This started happening after I updated my iPad to iPad OS 26.

I'm using an iPad 9th gen running iPadOS 26.0.1 and the latest version of the Zotero app.

Screenshots showing the glitch:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u7477018/upsl5gabg56th57grbhx.png

https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u7477018/x10b08to4kbywsye3cjk.png

mvasilak · 2025-10-02T13:06:27+00:00

Hey @bruec, can you please clarify if you use the latest released version (1.0.54) or the latest beta one (2.0.0-397)

bruec · 2025-10-02T13:14:12+00:00

I’m on 1.0.54.

venpopov · 2025-10-02T16:06:18+00:00

Also happens on the beta, including the latest one. If you rotate the screen to landscape mode and back the rectangle disappears. Then it won’t appear when showing and hiding the toolbar a few times, until it randomly appears again after a few show/hide cycles.

mvasilak · 2025-10-22T09:53:49+00:00

Issue should be fixed in the latest beta (2.0.0-401), please do test if possible and provide further feedback if needed.
https://www.zotero.org/support/beta_builds#zotero_for_ios_beta

bruec · 2025-10-22T17:13:35+00:00

Looks like the problem is fixed on 2.0.0-401!