We've had the same issue. I found two ways of fixing it. First is to unhide the bar in viewDidAppear - works, but feels janky as the user will see the bar appear after the push transition. Second was hacky, but produces a cleaner experience for the user. navigationController?.setNavigationBarHidden(false, animated: false) RunLoop.main.perform { self.navigationController?.pushViewController(someController, animated: true) } We'll go with the first even though the layout jank makes it less nice for the user; queing up a push on the next run loop feels pretty horrible... Hopefully Apple get round to fixing this pretty quickly, since they've forced this tab bar change on us!