Recent documents disappear in Acrobat Reader iPadOS 26

Hi everyone,

We are using the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader on our company iPads running iPadOS 26.5.

When a user receives a PDF attachment in the native Mail app and chooses to open it in Adobe Acrobat Reader, the PDF opens correctly and appears in the Recents tab, just as it did in previous versions of both Acrobat and iPadOS.

However, on iPadOS 26.5, as soon as the user leaves Acrobat (the app does not need to be closed, simply sending it to the background is enough), the PDF disappears from the Recents tab. When the user returns to Acrobat, the document is no longer available.

At the moment, the only workaround is to save every PDF to the iPad (Files or another local location) before opening it in Acrobat.

Is Adobe aware of this issue? Is it a known compatibility problem with iPadOS 26.5, or is there a setting or workaround that would allow PDFs opened directly from Mail to remain available after Acrobat is backgrounded?