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ImageBackground is deprecated and will be removed in a future release

Updated 2026-10-10

React Native logs:

ImageBackground is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Use a View with an absolutely positioned Image instead.
SafeAreaView has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please use 'react-native-safe-area-context' instead.

What it means. Both still work and log a warning. Once removed, importing them from 'react-native' returns undefined and every screen that renders them crashes. ImageBackground was deprecated in 0.87, SafeAreaView in 0.81 (DrawerLayoutAndroid and UTFSequence in 0.87 too).

SafeAreaView is already a problem on Android. The core component only ever applied to iOS. Apps that target Android 15 (API level 35) are drawn edge-to-edge there, so screens wrapped in it sit under the status bar. Replace it with the one from react-native-safe-area-context and wrap the root in SafeAreaProvider (Expo Router already does).

- import { SafeAreaView } from 'react-native';
+ import { SafeAreaView } from 'react-native-safe-area-context';

ImageBackground is a View with an absolutely positioned Image:

<View style={style}>
  <Image source={source} resizeMode="cover" style={StyleSheet.absoluteFill} />
  {children}
</View>

Add overflow: 'hidden' to the outer style if you used borderRadius.

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