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October 10, 2025, 7:46am
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Description of the issue: There is an empty bar at the bottom screen of the phone regardless if there is a bottom toolbar or not. It raises the bottom toolbar at the bottom of the screen by it’s same height.
How can this issue be reproduced?
Enable swipe navigation (not buttons) on a recent android phone.
Open Brave Mobile Browse.
Expected result: There will be a raised empty bar at the bottom of the screen.
Brave Version( check About Brave):1.83.109
Mobile Device details: Samsung Galaxy S23+
Additional Information:
This is a known issue the team is addressing presently:
opened 05:37PM - 22 Aug 25 UTC
bug
OS/Android
### Description
Some Android devices allow you to hide the navigation buttons u… ntil a gesture is used to display them. For some devices, when the nav buttons are hidden in this way, a white gap appears between the browser toolbar and the bottom of the device screen:
<img width="220" height="1712" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/67f3d50f-d823-4931-b9ba-bd675f9a3bf3" />
Note that these options can typically be found in `Settings --> Navigation` and that not all Android devices offer this option.
### Steps to reproduce
1. Toggle `Hide full screen indicator` or equivalent setting "on"
2. Launch browser
### Actual result
White gap appears on bottom of screen during scrolling
### Expected result
No gap should appear
### Reproduces how often
Easily reproduced
### Brave version
v1.81.136
### Device
- Brand/model: Various
- Android version: Various
### Channel information
- [x] release (stable)
- [x] beta
- [ ] nightly
### Reproducibility
- [ ] with Brave Shields disabled
- [ ] with Brave Rewards disabled
- [ ] in the latest version of Chrome
### Miscellaneous information
User report:
https://community.brave.app/t/bottom-navigation-toolbar/640813/6
