Why is half of my iPhone screen blank?
For several non-native apps, the lower half of the screen is blank. I believe this began happening when I upgraded to iOS26 a few weeks ago.
iPhone 16 Pro, iOS 26
False..lol It happens in the Mail app.
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Unfortunately, this fixed my issue. I had the reduce transparency enabled as the transparency appeared to slow my phone down. After disabling it, I have not seen the half screen issue any more. Seems like Apple offers a feature to improve the phone speed at the cost of functionality. Hopefully it will be fixed in 26.2.
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This happens in every app on my iPhone running iOS 26.1 - 1P and 3P apps. This includes: messages, safari, and mail.
Can confirm it is not fixed in the 26.2 as in fact even worse now 🥴
It happens with mail for me too so not just third party apps - it is so annoying
This tip did resolve my issues as well. Thank you to the support group.
It worked. Thank you. 👍🏼
After checking a couple of apps that were having the symptoms, upgrading appears to have fixed them. Thanks for the heads up on the 26.1 release, as it didn't show up on my phone until I checked for updates.
Did you restart your phone?
Press and release volume up then volume down, then press and hold the side button until you see the Apple logo.
Not sure if it would help but you said you are on iOS 26.0.1. There is a newer version that just came out, 26.1. Try updating to that version.
Does not seem to be app-specific, but from the size and position it seems like it might be tied to the onscreen keyboard.
This is not true. It happens on the messages app and the Mail app.
Wow, thanks for the tip, this was driving me nuts. Seems to be resolved. As others have said, this is not limited to third party apps. Occurred for me with all searches in native mail app.
Why is half of my iPhone screen blank?