From 932a671167cd2494853eafc096134987f82226e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kyle Hickinson <kylehickinson@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:47:43 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] [iOS] Hide tab bar when using bottom bar & in overlay mode
 (#34994)

---
 .../BrowserViewController/BrowserViewController.swift       | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ios/brave-ios/Sources/Brave/Frontend/Browser/BrowserViewController/BrowserViewController.swift b/ios/brave-ios/Sources/Brave/Frontend/Browser/BrowserViewController/BrowserViewController.swift
index c672268f966..808f7ecb621 100644
--- a/ios/brave-ios/Sources/Brave/Frontend/Browser/BrowserViewController/BrowserViewController.swift
+++ b/ios/brave-ios/Sources/Brave/Frontend/Browser/BrowserViewController/BrowserViewController.swift
@@ -1609,10 +1609,10 @@ public class BrowserViewController: UIViewController {
     }
 
     func shouldShowTabBar() -> Bool {
-      let isKeyboardActiveForWebContent =
+      let isKeyboardActive =
         tabManager.selectedTab?.webViewProxy?.isKeyboardVisible == true
-      let isBraveOriginatedKeyboard = keyboardState?.isLocal == true
-      if isUsingBottomBar, isKeyboardActiveForWebContent, isBraveOriginatedKeyboard {
+        && keyboardState?.isLocal == true
+      if isUsingBottomBar, topToolbar.inOverlayMode || isKeyboardActive {
         return false
       }
       let tabCount = tabManager.tabsForCurrentMode.count