[Xcode 26] Theme is not applied when system is dark mode

[huextrat]

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Bug summary

Maybe related to: software-mansion/react-native-screens#3162

On iOS, if we have DefaultTheme we can see that bottom bar is not applying the light theme but system theme instead

On this we can see that BottomBar style is updated with no reason :

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Library version

0.10.1

Environment info

Expo 53
RN 0.79

Steps to reproduce

• Xcode 26 & iOS 26 (with dark theme on system)
• Launch app from the repo
• Open profile
• See that the bottom bar does not have the right theme

Reproducible sample code

https://github.com/huextrat/repro-screens-ios