On the iPhone Duo, Messages tucks its navigation bar away while you scroll back through a conversation and brings it back when you reverse. The Duo's short display needs that room, but T3 Code's thread header stayed fixed.
iOS 27 adds UINavigationItem.navigationBarMinimization for this, and our Screens fork already exposes it as the header's minimizationBehavior (upstream software-mansion/react-native-screens#4703). The thread route now opts in with onScrollUp through a new unstable_headerMinimizationBehavior screen option, applied on the Duo only:
automatic, the system default. On other iPhones and the iPad, iOS 27.0 resolves that to never minimizing.Setting the prop alone did nothing, because UIKit only minimizes against a scroll view registered with the screen's controller:
ScrollViewMarker (via KeyboardChatScrollView's ScrollViewComponent), because the composer and overlays beside it stop UIKit from finding it on its own.Split.Screen, which ignored marker registration. Screens 5.0.0-t3.37 (pingdotgg/react-native-screens#4) makes it register the scroll view with its controller, like stack screens do. Merge that fork PR with a merge commit together with this one.This needs a new native build; an OTA update alone won't enable it. Android is unaffected.
iPhone Duo (iOS 27.1 simulator, folded): the header minimizes when scrolling back through history; the vertical bar's items stay.
https://gh-file-drop-api-prod-mi5fy3sowv63ufte.pinglabs.workers.dev/f/53ade706c077fa3d/duo-after.mp4
These two clips predate the Duo-only gating. They show the same scripted scroll on an iPhone 18 Pro (iOS 27.0) simulator, before and after Split.Screen registration. Before, the header stays:
https://gh-file-drop-api-prod-mi5fy3sowv63ufte.pinglabs.workers.dev/f/419a409c707d58c8/before.mp4
After, the header minimizes on scroll up and restores on the reverse scroll:
https://gh-file-drop-api-prod-mi5fy3sowv63ufte.pinglabs.workers.dev/f/e82df838bf4c27b1/after.mp4
With the gating, the iPhone 18 Pro is back to the fixed header, which I re-checked on the simulator. The unfolded Duo wasn't recorded.
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Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — This PR changes the default Thread reading experience on Duo devices by minimizing and restoring the native header based on scroll direction, with a native react-native-screens update to register the feed's scroll view. Because it changes production behavior and product defaults, the change warrants human review.
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| Codex | Thread snapshot wire | 3.8 KiB | 3.8 KiB | 0 B (0.0%) | 4.9 KiB | ✅ |
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| Claude | Live turn messages | 2 | 1 | −1 (−50.0%) | 8 | ✅ |
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The mobile app updates its react-native-screens fork and adds iOS header minimization support for the Thread route. The route uses the onScrollUp option, and its feed registers an animated scroll view with NativeScrollViewMarker.
Changes: Thread header minimization
| Layer / File(s) | Summary |
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Native minimization option support apps/mobile/package.json, apps/mobile/src/native/StackHeader.tsx, apps/mobile/src/native/V5StackHeader.ios.tsx, docs/operations/mobile-screens-fork.md | The Screens dependency and documented fork version change to t3.37. Native stack options accept a minimization behavior. The iOS header uses the option on Duo devices and passes undefined on other devices. |
Thread scroll-aware header setup apps/mobile/src/Stack.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadFeed.tsx | The Thread route uses a header options preset with onScrollUp. On iOS, the feed uses a scroll-view wrapper registered with NativeScrollViewMarker; other platforms retain the default component. |
Priority: ⬇️ Low
Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes
Change: Feature
Suggested reviewers: pixpmusic, maria-rcks
10645No actionable merge-blocking risk is established by the reviewed changes.
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| Title check | Passed | The title clearly identifies the primary change: thread header minimization while reading history on the Duo. |
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@coderabbitai Re: "Set non-Duo minimization to never" on V5StackHeader.ios.tsx: not changing this. Falling back to automatic (the system default) for anything that doesn't opt in is intentional. iOS 27.0 resolves automatic to never-minimize on non-Duo devices (checked on an iPhone 18 Pro simulator), and we want future platform defaults to apply rather than pinning them. Only the thread opts in, on the Duo, as of 1064590.
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