Server Version#: Player Version#: 2026.8.0 Several folks over on Reddit are reporting their client is showing a purple background. It seems to be coming from an Acorn ad at the bottom, of the screen. Is this intended? I tried to recreate it, but couldn’t on my iOS device Took the screenshots fro…

I’m thinking it was intentional because “Themes”, which were working before in the iOS app stopped shortly before this “addition”, with all background pages on home and library pages being just black. Looks to me like they’re having advertisers on the Home Page now.

Purple Background Mobile App

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Atomatth May 6, 2026, 12:31pm 2

We saw. Thanks for reporting here. We’re looking into it.

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Purple Background Mobile App

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