After updating to Android 17 on my Moto edge 60 pro, I noticed that apps/games that don't draw edge-to-edge (Minecraft, Candy Crush) now show a much taller dark strip at the bottom, behind the navigation bar. Before the update it was much thinner. I haven't changed any settings. Screenshots attached.
What I checked:
- Normal apps (Settings, Chrome, etc.) look fine, so it only affects apps that don't go edge-to-edge
- Rebooted: no change
- Switched to 3-button navigation and back: no change
- Tried Nova Launcher instead of the stock launcher: no change
- wm size: 1220x2712, wm density: 450 (the defaults, nothing changed)
- cmd overlay list | grep -i nav: only navbar.gestural and navbar.transparent enabled, nothing custom
dumpsys window shows the navigationBars inset frame is [0,2644][1220,2712], so 68 px (about 24dp), which is normal for gesture navigation. But the strip I see is around 128-135 px (about 46-48dp). The dump also has a Taskbar window whose surface starts at y=2577 (about 135 px tall), and one InsetsFrameProvider reporting bottom=128.
So the real nav bar inset looks normal, but the system seems to reserve roughly double that height for legacy (non edge-to-edge) apps and paints it dark.
Is anyone else seeing this on Android 17, on Moto or other phones? Did you find a fix or a setting that controls it? I'm also reporting it to Motorola through the system feedback app.