Can you please provide some more information regarding your iPad? What model/iOS version is it running? Do you experience this behavior on any of your other Roon Remotes or just the iPad?
Can you please let me know any reproduction steps to get into this state? It looks like you were on the Now Playing screen right before this issue occurred? Is this sequence of events correct?
Had Roon open on Now Playing Screen
Put iPad to sleep (using power button or did the screen time out?)
Opened the iPad back up (using power button or home button?)
Put in Passcode? Or did it open right back to the Roon app?
Then this issue occurred
Please open a separate thread regarding this behavior, in this one I would like to focus on the bottom panel issue.