White Overlay Appears on iOS After Updating to Viro 2.51.0

[ardasnturk]

Hello dear Viro team,

First of all, thank you for your great work on version 2.51.0 – impressive progress!

I recently upgraded from Viro 2.43.4 to 2.51.0, and while testing, I encountered an issue only on iOS.
On Android, everything works as expected, but on iOS, a white overlay/mask appears over the 3D model.

No code changes were made on my side — the issue started immediately after upgrading Viro to 2.51.0.

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📱 Environment
• Expo SDK: 54.x (bare workflow)
• Viro version: 2.51.0
• Platform:
• ✅ Android 13.x → Working fine
• ❌ iOS 18.x → White overlay on model

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📎 Code reference

Component file:
AugmentedRealityView.js

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🔁 Steps to Reproduce
1. Use Viro 2.51.0 with Expo SDK 54.x
2. Load any 3D model in AR
3. On iOS, observe a white overlay appearing on top of the model
4. On Android, the model renders normally

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💡 Expected Behavior

3D model should render cleanly on both platforms, without any masking artifacts.

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🖼️ Additional Info
• I’m attaching screenshots (see below).
• The white overlay persists during interaction, and appears to be some kind of rendering artifact.

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🙏 Request

Could you please advise on how to resolve this?
If this is a known issue or a limitation, any suggested workaround would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance for your support!

Best regards,
Arda Sentürk & @donni106

iOS	Android

[ardasnturk]

update: I contacted @oliedis via Discord. I forgot to add it to the issue description. The format of the model I tested is VRX format. They said they identified an issue with version 2.51.0 for this format and that it will be resolved in the next version.

discord link