Back Icon not rendered in production (iOS)

[Aichnerc]

Current behavior

Hey! My back buttons have been missing on iOS for a few months now. This only occurs in production — in Expo Go they still show up correctly. The issue also appears in local development builds.

My implementation

Navigator itself to set some global things

<Navigator
      screenOptions={{
        headerBackTitleVisible: false,
        headerStyle: { backgroundColor: colors.surface },
        headerTintColor: colors.onSurface,
        headerTitleStyle: { color: colors.onSurface },
        headerShadowVisible: false,
      }}
    >

The screens where we want to show a header

<Screen
          name="HabitDetails"
          component={HabitDetailsScreen}
          options={({ route }) => ({
            title: route.params.title || "Habit details",
            headerShown: true,
          })}
        />

Expected behavior

Visible back buttons.

Reproduction

Private

Platform

• Android
• iOS
• Web
• Windows
• MacOS

Packages

• @react-navigation/bottom-tabs
• @react-navigation/drawer
• @react-navigation/material-top-tabs
• @react-navigation/stack
• @react-navigation/native-stack
• react-native-drawer-layout
• react-native-tab-view

Environment

• I've removed the packages that I don't use

package	version
@react-navigation/native	^6.0.6
@react-navigation/bottom-tabs	^6.0.9
@react-navigation/stack	^6.0.11
react-native-tab-view	^4.1.0
react-native-safe-area-context	~5.6.0
react-native-gesture-handler	~2.28.0
react-native-reanimated	~4.1.1
react-native-pager-view	6.9.1
react-native	0.81.4
expo	^54.0.10
node	v24.7.0
yarn	1.22.22

[github-actions]

The versions mentioned in the issue for the following packages differ from the latest versions on npm:

• @react-navigation/native (found: 6.0.6, latest: 7.1.17)
• @react-navigation/bottom-tabs (found: 6.0.9, latest: 7.4.7)
• @react-navigation/stack (found: 6.0.11, latest: 7.4.8)
• react-native-tab-view (found: 4.1.0, latest: 4.1.3)

Can you verify that the issue still exists after upgrading to the latest versions of these packages?

[github-actions]

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