StatusBar background becomes unexpectedly dark/opaque after interactions (e.g. navigation, press buttons, open modals etc))

[MrKinq]

What happened?

#Issue

In a React Native project using react-native-navigation, the StatusBar background color becomes unexpectedly dark or semi-transparent after certain user interactions.

Even when explicitly setting:

Navigation.setDefaultOptions({
statusBar: {
backgroundColor: 'white', // or '#fff' or even null
style: 'dark',
},
});

the StatusBar initially appears correctly, but after certain events — such as:

Navigating to another screen

Pressing a button

Triggering re-renders

…the StatusBar background changes to a semi-transparent black (visually: rgba(0,0,0,0.4) or similar), even though the color was explicitly set.

What was the expected behaviour?

Keep the colors set in default option?!

Was it tested on latest react-native-navigation?

• I have tested this issue on the latest react-native-navigation release and it still reproduces.

Help us reproduce this issue!

Basic/Advanced setup declare in react-native-navigation docs

In what environment did this happen?

React Native Navigation version: 7.45.0
React Native version: 0.76.9
Has Fabric (React Native's new rendering system) enabled: no
Node version: >=18
Device model: Samsung galaxy a54
Android version: 14