Bottom of outline is cut off of mobile when floating navigation is off

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Steps to reproduce

  1. Create a doc with many headings
  2. On mobile, open the outline sidebar
  3. Try to scroll to the bottom
  4. Last item is cut off

Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y]

Expected result

Last item should be able to be scrolled into view

Actual result

Last item gets stuck

Environment

SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: 1.12.7 (303)
API version: 1.12.7
Operating system: iOS 26.5 (Apple iPhone14,8)
Login status: not logged in
Language: en
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: on

RECOMMENDATIONS:
none

Additional information

Here’s a screen recording

ScreenRecording_06-30-2026 17-21-37_1

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I can’t reproduce this using the current beta, v1.13.1 (339), using an iPhone 17pro.

Out of curiosity:

  • what’s the font size set at in Settings > Appearance?
  • do you have any custom fonts set? (doesn’t look like it, but just to rule it out)
  • what phone do you have? is it a smaller 13mini or anything like that?
3

Thanks for the follow up.

what’s the font size set at in Settings > Appearance?

It was set to 19, but the problem stays even when I shrink it down to 15.

do you have any custom fonts set? (doesn’t look like it, but just to rule it out)

Nope

what phone do you have? is it a smaller 13mini or anything like that?

It’s actually a larger one—iPhone 14 Plus

4

Anything else I can do to test this or provide more detail? Ongoing issue for me.

5

if you create a new vault, does it happen there?

6

Thank you—it doesn’t! What does this mean? I’m ready for the next step.

7

It means that there is some plugin, theme, css or configuration that is causing this.

8

Thanks. It persists when I’m in restricted mode, with no CSS things enabled, and no special configuration folder. Is there something else I can turn off?

9

well, look at the settings of your vault and how they differ from the sandbox vault.

10

I just fixed the same issue.

I backed up the appearance.json file and then deleted the original. Created a new, empty appearance.json, and the problem disappeared.

Then I copied over every parameter one by one until the UI became what I wanted. I skipped any parameters I didn’t understand.

The final appearance.json has fewer lines than the original. Problem solved.

11

it would be helpful to know which parameter is causing this

12

I think I found what’s causing this because I had the same issue. It has to be related to the “Floating navigation” setting. Go in Settings > Interface > Floating navigation and turn this option ON (if it’s OFF) and the bottom of outlines won’t be cut off any more. As soon as I turn “Floating navigation” off again and navigation gets anchored, the visual cut off comes back.

All new vaults default to “Floating navigation” being ON so that’s why the problem disappears but if you’re in normal vault, that setting isn’t affected by any restricted mode option or otherwise. So thats why it persists.

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I can confirm turning this off for me causes the issue to disappear, too.