iOS 26 TabBar Remove Selected Capsule

Thanks for the post. Any chance you can provide a simple focused project we can download and run it to see what you are seeing?

If so, please share a link to your test project. That'll help us better understand what's going on. If you're not familiar with preparing a test project, take a look at Creating a test project.

What happens when you disable Liquid Glass? Do you get the results that you want?

When you create a standard UIView (or SwiftUI View) that contains your custom buttons and layout and add custom view to the UITabBarController's view and anchor it to the bottom of the screen. When a user taps a button in your custom view, manually update the selected tab is when you get that result?

Are you testing on iOS 26.4? What Xcode version are you using?

Albert Pascual
  Worldwide Developer Relations.

Hey Albert, Thanks for the prompt response. Here is the link to Github repo: https://github.com/VJM158/UIKitTabBar

What happens when you disable Liquid Glass? Do you get the results that you want? - Yes, we get the desired result.

I using Xcode 26.3 with iOS 26.2 simulator

Using a fully custom view with buttons is definitely an option, but my concern is that I would lose a lot of built-in UITabBar behavior such as tapping the active tab to return to root, hidesBottomBarWhenPushed, accessibility support, badging, and other system-integrated behaviors.

This is a fairly large and complex app, so I’m hesitant to replace UITabBar entirely unless that is really the only reliable path. Please let me know if my understanding is correct. I’m mainly trying to understand what the recommended path forward is here.

Also, if Liquid Glass is enabled for the app, is the selected capsule in UITabBar mandatory?