Quote from Dae on 21.09.2026, 00:36

My wife and I get it. Restarting doesn’t help.

She’s on a new iPhone 18 Pro Max, I’m on my iPhone 17 Pro Max.  We’re both running iOS 27.0 and Scenic 4.45(5). We have identical Chigee units, with identical firmware.

We have similar, but different issues. I see the ETA box in dark grey with black writing, which is very hard to read. Julie sees an even darker box with black writing, which is impossible to read.

Quote from Marts on 21.09.2026, 02:22

I wonder if it's  iOS27 and whatever carplay revision that's been implemented with it.

 

Quote from Dae on 21.09.2026, 02:55

We suspect the darkness of the box is related to the Liquid Glass setting. Julie’s is on max, and she has a totally black box. Mine is set lower and the box is a lighter grey, although still too difficult to read when riding

Quote from Dae on 21.09.2026, 12:03

I can confirm it is Liquid Glass related. My wife adjusted her setting and the darkness of the box changed.

It’s also not related to the Chigee as it does it on the car’s CarPlay screen too.

Quote from Marts on 21.09.2026, 20:28

Quote from Dae on 21.09.2026, 12:03

I can confirm it is Liquid Glass related. My wife adjusted her setting and the darkness of the box changed.

It’s also not related to the Chigee as it does it on the car’s CarPlay screen too.

Thanks for letting us know. I'm not that familiar with the iPhone's settings. What did you adjust?

Cheers

 

Quote from Marts on 21.09.2026, 21:49

Just had to go to the shops for something. While out I programmed in the drive (in the car) home via the Carplay dash. The box displayed correctly, although the route home was all over the shop, but that's an issue for another day.

I'll check it out on the bike later.

 

Quote from Dae on 21.09.2026, 23:13

Go into the settings app on the phone and search “liquid”. Then adjust the slider

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Quote from Marts on 22.09.2026, 00:13

Thanks Dae. I'll play with the settings and give it a go.

Quote from MjK on 23.09.2026, 20:42

I had this strange behavior when I first switched to iOS 27 dev beta 1.

the issue was related how my cheap CarPlay display reacts to my current local time - in essence when I disabled the time based auto dim mode, mine has no sensor, so I can’t speak for that scenario, the issue was gone …

I tested a bit setting a different timezone in the display, that got better, but was to much trial and error for me, so I disabled the switching all in all

the black box is actually dark grey digits on/in the black box.

Quote from Boatman on 24.09.2026, 06:53

Hi,

I have the same problem. I’m on iPhone 14 pro iOS 27.0 and chigee 5 play, scenic 4.44 Very hard to read.

My wife has not yet updated her phone, she’s on iPhone 14 pro iOS 26.6.2, scenic 4.44 and chigee 5 play. She has no problem.

 

 

Quote from Guido on 24.09.2026, 12:05

Hi Guys... will fix for the upcoming update. Scenic forced the text in the trip estimate panel to black. In iOS27 that panel background changed (and is dependent not he Liquid Glass setting now). In the update I'll release asap, the font color in the panel will now also be chosen by iOS27 (not forced to black by Scenic anymore).

Quote from Sorefeet on 28.09.2026, 09:12

Updated to version 4.45
Working fine in light mode but in dark mode still has issues. Text to next turn visible but the turn arrow (or whatever the change of direction is) is almost black so not visible on carplay screen

Quote from Guido on 29.09.2026, 11:52

Will fix for next update. iOS27 related