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Subramanya Chakravarthy
Subramanya Chakravarthy

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React Navigation Fix header height in iOS

Have you ever faced large header height for iphones??

Like this one

large-header

Well then you can fix this easily with one line of code

In your navigator's default navigation options add this

headerForceInset: { top: "never", bottom: "never" }

So It will be something like

const awesomeNavigator = createStackNavigator({
    // all screens
}, {
    defaultNavigationOptions: {
        headerForceInset: { top: "never", bottom: "never" }
    }
})

Now it changes to

normal-header

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Mohamed Shaban

This usually happen because of embedding SafeArea in top of the navigation container, which results in double padding, although what you mentioned is a fix, may be the better one will be to make sure you don't have double SafeAreas

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Subramanya Chakravarthy

I agree whatever you said is a better solution, but I am too #lazy or didn't want to refactor my #workplace app when I wrote this article, so 🤷🏻‍♂️

Thanks for pointing it out