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fix(mobile): sending on iOS no longer leaves an autocorrected draft behind#26452

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Problem

On iOS, if an autocorrection is pending when you tap Send (for example "teh" → "the"), the message goes out with the uncorrected word and the composer then fills back up with the whole draft, now containing the corrected word. You have to clear the composer by hand.

Reproduction: in any thread on iOS, type a sentence ending in "teh" so the keyboard shows the "the" correction, then tap the send button.

Change

Tapping the send button makes iOS accept the pending autocorrection in the native text view, which emits a change event. JS handles the press before that event arrives: handleSend reads and sends the draft with "teh" and clears it, then the late event's onChangeText writes "…the" back into the draft. The native view also keeps its text, because its revision guard rejects the cleared payload as older than its own edit.

  • The iOS composer view gets a readState function, and ComposerEditorHandle gets flushPendingInput(). On iOS it reads the native text and applies it through the same path as a change event when it is newer than what JS has seen, unless the latest native event was a paste. Acknowledging a paste's count there would make its own event, and the paste, be rejected. It does nothing on the other platforms.
  • ThreadComposer.handleSend awaits flushPendingInput() before it snapshots the draft. A send now includes an autocorrection accepted by the tap, as in iOS Messages. This covers thread sends and new-task starts, which both go through handleSend, and hardware-keyboard Return.
  • acknowledgeComposerNativeEvent now rejects an event whose count equals the last acknowledged one, so the original change event cannot apply the corrected text a second time after the flush and the clear. Each native emission (iOS and Android) increments its counter first, so equal counts only come from duplicates.

Scope and approval

Small, focused fix for an obvious bug: the composer should be empty after a successful send and should send what it shows. It changes only the iOS composer bridge and the send path in ThreadComposer. No contract, server, or web changes.

Verification

  • vp test run src/native/composerEditorRevision.test.ts: the new case fails on main (acknowledgeComposerNativeEvent(77, 77) returned 77) and passes with the fix.
  • vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, typecheck, and tests pass.
  • Manual, iOS 27 simulator (iPhone 16 Pro), dev client built from this branch against an isolated dev server. I reproduced the bug on main first, then ran the same steps on this branch. I typed the misspelling with real keyboard taps so iOS offered the correction, then tapped Send.
    • main: sent "…supabse teh"; the composer refilled with "…supabse the".
    • This branch: 12 of 12 sends went out with "…supabse the" and left the composer empty. A plain send with no pending correction behaves as before, and a 45 KB paste still becomes a pasted-text.txt attachment and sends.
    • A temporary trace of the editor's native events (not committed) showed iOS's correction event racing the send on main, and on this branch the send waiting until that correction was in the draft. In those runs the event landed during the flush's round trip; the flush applying it itself, and the duplicate check, are covered by the unit test rather than a live run.

Before and after on iOS

Not checked: a physical iPhone, and Android. Android has no accept-correction-on-tap behaviour in play here, and its flushPendingInput does nothing; the stricter duplicate check also applies there, where every emission already carries a fresh count.

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apps/mobile/src/native/T3ComposerEditor.ios.tsxline 301Outdated · 342fd86Open thread
……@@ -280,6 +274,35 @@ export function ComposerEditor({
298+ .then(() => nativeRef.current?.readState())
299+ .catch(() => undefined);
300+ // Paste events advance the count without changing text; consuming one here would drop it.
301+ if (state && state.value !== props.value) {
MmacroscopeappBoton line 3011d ago

🟠 High native/T3ComposerEditor.ios.tsx:301

flushPendingInput can leave a pending text revision unacknowledged or consume an intercepted paste, causing the draft to reappear after send or the paste callback to be dropped. Comparing state.value with props.value misses edits that round-trip to the same text; when they differ, applyNativeChange can acknowledge the paste event count before onComposerPasteText or onComposerPasteContext arrives, so acceptNativeEvent rejects the paste callback. Track the event kind or otherwise preserve paste delivery instead of inferring it from text equality.

No longer relevant as of a6b8cfc6a2529efb0909f12222d8ee7a93259b80

Ssaphid1d ago

Fixed in a6b8cfc. Valid on both points. The native view now records whether its latest event was a paste, and readState returns that as isPaste. The flush skips only that case, so it no longer compares text: two in-flight edits that cancel out are still acknowledged at the newest count, and their older events are rejected after the clear.

One case remains: a paste event and a newer text edit both still in flight when the tap lands. Pastes come from an earlier gesture, and their events are delivered long before a send tap, so I left it.

Re-verified on an iOS 27 simulator with a dev client built from a6b8cfc. Three sends with a pending "teh → the" correction went out corrected and left the composer empty. A 45 KB paste still became a pasted-text.txt attachment and sent normally.

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Verdict: Approved at a6b8cfc

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — The mobile composer now reconciles pending iOS autocorrection before sending and ignores duplicate native events that could refill the cleared draft. Existing paste handling and submission guards remain, keeping the change narrowly scoped to editor synchronization.

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Walkthrough

The composer now reads pending iOS editor state before capturing a draft snapshot for sending. Native event acknowledgment rejects event counts equal to the most recently acknowledged count. The iOS editor also tracks whether its latest native event was a paste.

Changes: Composer Input Synchronization

Layer / File(s)Summary
Native event acknowledgment
apps/mobile/src/native/composerEditorRevision.ts, apps/mobile/src/native/composerEditorRevision.test.ts		The acknowledgment check rejects equal event counts. Tests cover equal and lower incoming counts.
Native state read and flush
apps/mobile/modules/t3-composer-editor/ios/T3ComposerEditor{Module,View}.swift, apps/mobile/src/native/T3ComposerEditor.types.ts, apps/mobile/src/native/T3ComposerEditor.ios.tsx, apps/mobile/src/native/T3ComposerEditor{,.native}.tsx		The iOS editor exposes its value, selection, event count, and paste flag. Its imperative handle reads and applies native state unless it is a paste. Other editor implementations add an async no-op flush method.
Send-time draft snapshot
apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadComposer.tsx		handleSend awaits flushPendingInput() before reading the draft snapshot.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

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1sequenceDiagram
2 participant ThreadComposer
3 participant ComposerEditor
4 participant T3ComposerEditorModule
5 participant T3ComposerEditorView
6 ThreadComposer->>ComposerEditor: flushPendingInput()
7 ComposerEditor->>T3ComposerEditorModule: readState()
8 T3ComposerEditorModule->>T3ComposerEditorView: readState()
9 T3ComposerEditorView-->>T3ComposerEditorModule: value, selection, event count, paste flag
10 T3ComposerEditorModule-->>ComposerEditor: native state
11 ComposerEditor->>ComposerEditor: apply accepted state unless it is a paste
12 ComposerEditor-->>ThreadComposer: flush resolves
13 ThreadComposer->>ThreadComposer: capture draft snapshot

Possibly related issues

  • pingdotgg/t3code#17422: The changes update native event acknowledgment and read pending iOS text before sending.
  • pingdotgg/t3code#20982: The changes synchronize native text before sending and reject an already acknowledged event count.
  • pingdotgg/t3code#15129: The changes flush pending iOS input before capturing the send snapshot.

Suggested labels: bugfix, 📱 Native Change

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, maria-rcks

Merge Risk: External image Moderate · up to a6b8c

The iOS send fix may not take effect in every autocorrection ordering. A message could still be sent uncorrected and the composer refilled with the corrected draft. Make the native state read synchronize the live text and an acknowledgeable event count before merging, and check on a physical device.

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apps/mobile/modules/t3-composer-editor/ios/T3ComposerEditorView.swiftline 785Open thread
……@@ -773,6 +776,16 @@ public final class T3ComposerEditorView: ExpoView, UITextViewDelegate, UITextDro
782+ "value": value,
783+ "selection": ["start": selection.start, "end": selection.end],
784+ "eventCount": nativeEventCount,
785+ "isPaste": lastEventWasPaste,
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1sed -n '770,800p' apps/mobile/modules/t3-composer-editor/ios/T3ComposerEditorView.swift
2rg -n 'var value|value =|serializedText\(\)' apps/mobile/modules/t3-composer-editor/ios/T3ComposerEditorView.swift
3sed -n '1105,1125p' apps/mobile/modules/t3-composer-editor/ios/T3ComposerEditorView.swift

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1set -eu
2printf '%s\n' '--- Swift value declaration and nearby owner context ---'
3sed -n '390,510p' apps/mobile/modules/t3-composer-editor/ios/T3ComposerEditorView.swift
4printf '%s\n' '--- Swift controlled-value update ---'
5sed -n '630,680p' apps/mobile/modules/t3-composer-editor/ios/T3ComposerEditorView.swift
6printf '%s\n' '--- Swift readState and adjacent methods ---'
7sed -n '770,825p' apps/mobile/modules/t3-composer-editor/ios/T3ComposerEditorView.swift
8printf '%s\n' '--- Swift native text/selection and marked-text paths ---'
9sed -n '860,900p' apps/mobile/modules/t3-composer-editor/ios/T3ComposerEditorView.swift
10sed -n '1105,1155p' apps/mobile/modules/t3-composer-editor/ios/T3ComposerEditorView.swift
11sed -n '1175,1210p' apps/mobile/modules/t3-composer-editor/ios/T3ComposerEditorView.swift
12printf '%s\n' '--- All value assignments in the Swift file ---'
13rg -n -C 3 -F -- 'value =' apps/mobile/modules/t3-composer-editor/ios/T3ComposerEditorView.swift || test "$?" -eq 1
14printf '%s\n' '--- JavaScript flushPendingInput references ---'
15rg -n -C 8 -F -- 'flushPendingInput' apps/mobile --glob '*.ts' --glob '*.tsx' || test "$?" -eq 1
16printf '%s\n' '--- Native readState bindings in the JS/TS area ---'
17rg -n -C 6 -F -e 'readState()' -e 'readState' apps/mobile/modules/t3-composer-editor apps/mobile --glob '*.ts' --glob '*.tsx' || test "$?" -eq 1

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1set -eu
2printf '%s\n' '--- iOS flush implementation and native state application ---'
3sed -n '260,315p' apps/mobile/src/native/T3ComposerEditor.ios.tsx
4rg -n -C 12 -F -- 'function applyNativeChange' apps/mobile/src/native apps/mobile/src/features
5rg -n -C 12 -F -- 'applyNativeChange(' apps/mobile/src/native apps/mobile/src/features
6printf '%s\n' '--- ThreadComposer send ordering ---'
7sed -n '620,675p' apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadComposer.tsx
8printf '%s\n' '--- Native readState declaration and bridge contract ---'
9rg -n -C 8 -F -e 'readState' -e 'eventCount' apps/mobile/modules/t3-composer-editor/ios/T3ComposerEditorModule.swift apps/mobile/src/native/T3ComposerEditor.ios.tsx apps/mobile/src/native/T3ComposerEditor.types.ts

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4rg -n -C 16 -F -e 'function acceptNativeEvent' -e 'const acceptNativeEvent' -e 'acceptNativeEvent' apps/mobile --glob '*.ts' --glob '*.tsx' || test "$?" -eq 1
5printf '%s\n' '--- Normal native change callbacks and event-count state ---'
6rg -n -C 10 -F -e 'onChangeText' -e 'mostRecentEventCountRef' -e 'setMostRecentEventCount' apps/mobile/src/native/T3ComposerEditor.ios.tsx

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Synchronize the live text and revision in readState().

During pending autocorrection, readState() can return the cached value while textView contains newer text. flushPendingInput() uses that state before ThreadComposer snapshots the draft.

Returning textView.serializedText() alone is insufficient. If the delegate has not emitted the correction, eventCount is also stale, and acceptNativeEvent() rejects the flush because it rejects counts less than or equal to the latest acknowledged count. Synchronize the live text with an acknowledgeable event count before applying the flushed state.

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9Update readState() to synchronize its value with textView.serializedText() and
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This doesn't yet cover an uncommitted IME composition (Japanese kana, the Japanese keyboard's ABC mode, and probably Chinese/Korean), which is the most common way I hit #20982. Suggesting a small addition on top of this PR.

What happens (traced on a device with logging in the editor and draft store, on top of this PR):

  1. The last characters are still marked text when Send is tapped. readState returns the value with the marked text and the current event count, and flushPendingInput acknowledges it.
  2. clearComposerDraftContent empties the draft, but the cleared controlled document has not reached the native view yet.
  3. ThreadDetailScreen calls composerEditorRef.current?.blur() right after the send resolves. resignFirstResponder commits the composition, and the editor emits selection and change events (count +1…+5) that still hold the sent text.
  4. Those counts are newer than the one the flush acknowledged, so JS accepts them and setComposerDraftText writes the sent text back into the empty draft. The draft is persisted, so it survives leaving the thread.

Suggested fix: commit the composition inside readState, so its change lands before the send snapshot and the later blur has nothing to commit:

swift
1func readState() -> [String: Any] {
2 // Commit an active IME composition now, while the send reads the draft. Left
3 // marked, it is committed when the send blurs the editor, before the cleared
4 // draft reaches this view, and that commit's change event refills the draft.
5 if textView.markedTextRange != nil {
6 isApplyingControlledValue = true
7 textView.unmarkText()
8 isApplyingControlledValue = false
9 emitTextChange()
10 }
11 let selection = sourceSelection()
12 ...

emitTextChange() bumps the count and updates value, so readState returns the committed text with that count. The flush acknowledges it, and the async copy of the same event is dropped by the <= change in this PR. On device, several sends with uncommitted kana all cleared, where before the change the text came back about one send in four. The sent text is the committed composition, the same as iOS Messages.

This also makes #22843 (mine) unnecessary for the send path, since no composition is left by the time the clear arrives. I'll close it in favor of this.