I just did the Stage 5: Flat is Fast B cat race on the Greater Flat London course. Event ID=4044903 At the start I noticed a small smudge beside my avatar. Then when someone close by used their ghost power-up I realised what the smudge was. It was the shadows of the riders being still visible when …

Quick fix… nuke the ghost power-up

It is not limited to iOS. I saw the same issue on Android tablet yesterday.

My team did a ladder race in London on 5/5/26 on the London Loop route. Ghost was the only power-up for the race. We noticed two issues when the ghost was activated. On dry roads, we could see the rider’s shadow proceeding up the road while they were invisible. Later on, when it started raining, we …

If it’s not a regression then it’s been that way for a while. [image] Game Update 1.63 [April 2024] Zwift Game When are you going to fix the rider shadow and firesocks glitch when using ghost powerup?

Merged to this existing topic that is a little older. Cc: @evan-zwift since he responded earlier

The electric scoks from the adventure were also still showing when the ghost was active.

Thanks folks for the reports of additional issues with the Ghost power-up, I passed this back to the team.

Funny that this should show up again. I’m sure at some point Zwift did fix the shadows for ghost power-ups but it wouldn’t be the first time a fix has reverted (I remember the menu button nearly being off screen, fixed, then unfixed then fixed again). Also funny that I did a race last night that us…

[image] Aoi: Funny that this should show up again. I’m sure at some point Zwift did fix the shadows for ghost power-ups If I recal correctly they fixed the shadows and the fire socks a few years ago. Somehow they came back and added some new flaws.

Ghost power-up: shadows are still visible

Bugs and Support

evan-zwift (Evan) June 11, 2026, 6:21am 12

Hey folks, additional improvements to the Ghost power-up are now rolling out in Zwift game update 1.115.0 this week. Thank you for the reports!

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Ghost power-up: shadows are still visible

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