[$250] iOS - Search - Search input field does not auto focus

[lanitochka17]

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Version Number: 9.0.54-0
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: N
If this was caught on HybridApp, is this reproducible on New Expensify Standalone?: Y
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: N/A
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): applausetester+kh1610015@applause.expensifail.com
Issue reported by: Applause - Internal Team

Action Performed:

1. Launch ND app or hybrid
2. Tap on the search icon on the top right

Expected Result:

Search input field will auto focus (production behavior)

Actual Result:

Search input field does not auto focus

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• Android: Standalone
• Android: HybridApp
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Standalone
• iOS: HybridApp
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

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Bug6645639_1729867786972.ScreenRecording_10-25-2024_22-47-54_1.mp4

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Current Issue Owner: @FitseTLT

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Triggered auto assignment to @yuwenmemon (DeployBlockerCash), see https://stackoverflowteams.com/c/expensify/questions/9980/ for more details.

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[lanitochka17]

Production:

RPReplay_Final1729868136.1.MP4

[Beamanator]

There seem to be multiple auto-focus bugs right now 🤔

[ChavdaSachin]

And they are specific to IOS.

[Beamanator]

@yuwenmemon since this is iOS-specific & related to focuses, I had a theory here what the cause could be - but maybe we could downgrade this to NAB?

[yuwenmemon]

Same root cause as: #51464

[Beamanator]

Agreed in slack this isn't a bad enough bug to block deploy

[yuwenmemon]

The similar issue seems to have a proposal that is promising, asked about this here: #51464 (comment)

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Triggered auto assignment to @twisterdotcom (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details. Please add this bug to a GH project, as outlined in the SO.

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Triggered auto assignment to Contributor-plus team member for initial proposal review - @suneox (External)

[mkzie2]

Proposal

Please re-state the problem that we are trying to solve in this issue.

Search input field does not auto focus

What is the root cause of that problem?

We use autoFocus prop to focus on the TextInput but it doesn't work as expected on IOS, maybe it's broken by the navigation transition or other transition.

App/src/components/Search/SearchRouter/SearchRouterInput.tsx

Lines 87 to 88 in aa6401d

	autoFocus={autoFocus}
	shouldDelayFocus={shouldDelayFocus}

What changes do you think we should make in order to solve the problem?

We should use useAutoFocusInput hook to focus on the TextInput and remove autoFocus and shouldDelayFocus. I checked this original PR for the reason we use autoFocus and shouldDelayFocus but when testing with useAutoFocusInput, it works well on mWeb chrome.

const {inputCallbackRef} = useAutoFocusInput();
ref={inputCallbackRef}

App/src/components/Search/SearchRouter/SearchRouterInput.tsx

Lines 87 to 88 in aa6401d

	autoFocus={autoFocus}
	shouldDelayFocus={shouldDelayFocus}

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

[FitseTLT]

Proposal

Please re-state the problem that we are trying to solve in this issue.

OS - Search - Search input field does not auto focus

What is the root cause of that problem?

The root cause is related with the patch applied in enable bridgeless pr (there is a discussion about it here)

What changes do you think we should make in order to solve the problem?

We can solve it by introducing delay in the focus, as we did for android,

App/src/components/Search/SearchRouter/SearchRouterInput.tsx

Line 88 in 664e657

shouldDelayFocus={shouldDelayFocus}

we are already introducing the delay for android here

App/src/libs/shouldDelayFocus/index.android.ts

Line 4 in 664e657

const shouldDelayFocus: ShouldDelayFocus = true;

so we should make it more general and include ios by changing the file to index.native.ts

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

[suneox]

@FitseTLT The RCA is correct, this issue only occurs at PR #48160 and update shouldDelayFocus for the native platform LGTM. So we can process with this proposal

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