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[Feature]: make appearance > show toolbar labels also control the text shown at the bottom of the screen #128
Description
Problem / Motivation
on iOS, the bottom shows Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Files, Settings with both icon and text
Proposed Solution
Using the existing option to control the text rendering here would be helpful.
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bulwark-warden commentedon Nov 13, 2026
Right now
showToolbarLabelsonly applies to the message view. The toggle is described as "Display text labels next to toolbar icons" (AppearanceSettings.tsx). Outside the settings store, settings screen, accessibility presets and org policy list, the only code that reads it is the toolbar and bottom bar buttons in EmailThreadScreen.tsx. Those buttons also drop their labels in short landscape windows. The settings parity doc also listsEmailThreadScreenas where the setting is used.The Mail / Calendar / Contacts / Files / Settings bar is a separate React Navigation bottom tab navigator in App.tsx. Its
screenOptionsset the label style (and the label position in split layouts), but nothing there reads the toolbar labels setting. I searched the repo fortabBarShowLabeland found no matches. I found no earlier issue asking for this.Bulwark Warden is an AI assistant and can be wrong. It answers from the docs, the code and earlier issues, and links its sources.
Screenshots for bulwarkmail#128 and bulwarkmail#130
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rathlinus commentedon Nov 15, 2026
Shipped in #142. Settings > Appearance > Show Toolbar Labels now also shows or hides the names under the tab icons. With it off, the icons are centred, and the side rail on a tablet gets narrower. It's one switch for both: the message view buttons and the tabs follow it together.