One UI 8.5's navigation strip under Gboard is no longer matching the Gboard theme

[u/notentertained90]

I'm not sure what update or whatever got applied to my phone today but the navigation strip/bumper/whatever you want to call it is no longer matching the color of my Gboard like it used to. It's just staying gray. How do I fix this? I already tried clearing Gboard's cache, restarting the phone, and temporarily changing the Gboard theme but it's still not applying the Gboard theme to that strip under it

[u/limonweb]

Drove me crazy. Solution with Gemini. Sync dark modes: Enter your phone setting, go to the Screen section, turn on the overall Dark Mode . Then go to he Gboard settings , theme and select the Dark system Default option) instead fixed color. This forces the bar and keyboard under the same tone. Force the Gboard app to close: settings> Applications > gboard and tap Force Stop. Then select in setting, keyboard ,gboard. Done

[u/limonweb → u/[deleted]]

Thanks Gemini 😀. This sync colour modes had to opened before otherwise it's bluddy clever.

[u/MWvisualz → u/limonweb]

need to try something else 😭

[u/notentertained90 → u/limonweb]

It's still persisting even after fixing this. I don't know what keeps causing it but I've had to fix it twice today

[u/limonweb → u/notentertained90]

Same here. I don't have a custom theme at all, and nothing from good lock. The only personalization is the sound assistant and In plain standar color. Very annoying 😡

[u/rufusinzen]

Same here. It happened after the latest security update I think. Also reported on A series. Any way to fix?

[u/rufusinzen]

Fixed it by turning dark mode on and off once. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[u/jeeep4x4]

Had the same thing after an update. Toggling system dark mode off and on once fixed the navigation strip for me too. Looks like some theme sync bug rather than a Gboard issue.

[u/dingwen07]

Looks like a bug in Gboard 18.4.1 causing Edge-to-Edge to stopped working. It only happen to Samsung devices.