I spent a bit of time investigating the issue as I didn't believe MvvmCross was doing anything that would prevent an application from intercepting the back button. Recently an issue was raised on MvvmCross that claimed there was an issue intercepting the back button in a Xamarin.Forms + MvvmCross application running on Android. In order to hide the status bar, one has to add 2 properties in the Info.plist file. So I've set the "IsVisible" property to False to hide them, but if I do that my Shell doesn't want to navigate to these pages, and my app directly jumps to the third ShellContent. Xamarin Form Shell: Flyout and TabBar - Hide items in TabBar only? / In: Code The Xamarin Forms Toolbar is an abstraction of the extensions you can add to the NavigationBar on each platform. Overview. Set the default border colour to white. This is the recommended implementation pulled right from the Xamarin.Forms documentation. But as mentioned above, this produces something that isn't so pleasant: The default secondary toolbar created by Xamarin Forms in iOS. Implement customization on each platform by using custom renderers. You should pass the page as the first parameter in the SetTabBarIsVisible to tell the shell hiding its tab bar. Xamarin.Android Tutorial => Add toolbar to the Xamarin.Android... editor.ToolbarSettings.ToolbarItems.Add(new FooterToolbarItem() { Icon = ImageSource.FromResource . Awesome Xamarin Forms properties that you probably didn't ... - XamGirl A ToolbarItem instance can have an icon and appear as a primary or secondary menu item. How To Hide Scroll Bar In Listview Xamarin.Forms In this article, I'm going to show you how to make the navigation bar transparent in Xamarin Forms. To overcome this, we've added the TabView to the Xamarin Community Toolkit. [Bug] [iOS] NavigationBar and Tabbar is always black or white ... - GitHub