Safe Area Insets Still Not Working in v7 and Chromium 140+ After Package Sunset

[AliRoshaniDev]

Description

Hi, I recently noticed that this package has been sunset — thank you for all the work that went into it!

I wanted to ask what the recommended approach is now for handling safe area insets, as I’m running into issues with the current setup.

Details

In version 7, the Capacitor config file approach and the enable() method don’t appear to work for me.

I also noticed in previous discussions that safe area insets were said to be fully fixed starting with Chromium v140, but I’m already using v140 (and even tested with the v143 WebView Dev version), and the behavior still seems unchanged.

Is there any recommended workaround, fix, or migration path to ensure proper safe area handling going forward?

Thanks in advance for your help and clarification!

[tafelnl]

As mentioned in the readme:

Now it's up to the Capacitor team to correctly implement this and provide some documentation around it.

See the following issue for more info: ionic-team/capacitor#8121

[scris]

Thus we still need to keep "@capacitor-community/safe-area": "^7.0.0-alpha.1" as a dependency as of now.

[tafelnl]

No you don't. Unless you want to do so yourself for any reason. But the best thing forward right now is to uninstall this plugin and encourage the capacitor team to release a proper fix

[scris]

I don't know if I have missed something. As the Capacitor team haven't yet released their proper fix, it seems that I may still need to depend on this to keep edge-to-edge working until they finally release that fix.

[tafelnl]

That's why I suggested to encourage them to release it. They have a work in progress here: ionic-team/capacitor#8180

If you want to depend on this alpha plug-in, that's all good. It's just not a supported way of doing things. So you should be wary using it in production. I think you're better off just not handling edge to edge until the capacitor team releases an official way of doing so

[tafelnl]

Good news. I've unsunsetted this plugin. More about that here: ionic-team/capacitor#8121

[scris]

Thanks for your work and your time!