# expo-system-ui

> Interact with system UI elements

Latest version **57.0.4** (published 2026-09-11) · MIT license · 0 weekly downloads

## Install

```sh
npm install expo-system-ui
pnpm add expo-system-ui
yarn add expo-system-ui
bun add expo-system-ui
```

## Health

**Score 75/100 (B)** — status: active.

Positive: has types; no vulnerabilities; recently updated; high maintenance score; high quality score; popular repo; extremely popular.

Warnings: low downloads; no esm support.

## Facts

| | |
|---|---|
| Version | 57.0.4 |
| Published | 2026-09-11 |
| First published | 2021-11-09 |
| Weekly downloads | 0 |
| License | MIT |
| TypeScript types | bundled |
| Module format | CommonJS |
| Dependencies | 2 |
| Unpacked size | 82 KB |
| Known vulnerabilities | 0 |
| Install scripts | no |
| GitHub stars | 52188 |
| Author | 650 Industries, Inc. |
| Maintainers | ide, brentvatne, expoadmin, exponent, bycedric, kudochien, alanhughes, tsapeta, expo-bot, philpl, ccheever, wschurman |
| Keywords | react-native, expo, background-color, user-interface, appearance |

## Links

- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/expo-system-ui
- Repository: https://github.com/expo/expo
- Homepage: https://docs.expo.dev/versions/latest/sdk/system-ui
- Issues: https://github.com/expo/expo/issues
- npm.io page: https://npm.io/package/expo-system-ui

## Dependencies (2)

- [debug](https://npm.io/package/debug.md) ^4.3.2
- [@react-native/normalize-colors](https://npm.io/package/@react-native/normalize-colors.md) 0.86.3

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## Recent versions

- 57.0.4 (latest) — 2026-09-11
- 58.0.2 (next) — 2026-09-21
- 58.0.0-canary-20260909-ea7a89a (canary) — 2026-09-09
- 55.0.22 (sdk-55) — 2026-08-25
- 56.0.6-canary-20260701-9100865 (canary-sdk-56) — 2026-07-01
- 55.0.10-canary-20260429-a5e59cf (canary-sdk-55) — 2026-04-29
- 3.0.4 (sdk-51) — 2024-05-02
- 2.9.3 (sdk-50) — 2024-01-10
- 58.0.1 — 2026-09-14
- 58.0.0 — 2026-09-10
- 58.0.0-canary-20260908-e343e6e — 2026-09-08
- 58.0.0-canary-20260902-26df09e — 2026-09-02
- 58.0.0-canary-20260901-2164f24 — 2026-09-02
- 57.0.3 — 2026-08-26
- 55.0.21 — 2026-08-17
- … 243 more at https://npm.io/package/expo-system-ui/versions

## README

# expo-system-ui

**`expo-system-ui`** adds support for locking the user interface (appearance) and updating the root view background color.

## API documentation

- [Documentation for the latest stable release][docs-stable]
- [Documentation for the main branch][docs-main]

### Installation

```
npx expo install expo-system-ui
```

### Extra Setup

For bare React Native projects, ensure that you have the [native `expo` package][expo-modules] setup before continuing, this is required for all Expo modules.

## Contributing

Contributions are very welcome! Please refer to guidelines described in the [contributing guide][contributing].

[docs-main]: https://docs.expo.dev/versions/unversioned/sdk/system-ui/
[docs-stable]: https://docs.expo.dev/versions/latest/sdk/system-ui/
[contributing]: https://github.com/expo/expo#contributing
[expo-modules]: https://docs.expo.dev/bare/installing-expo-modules/

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