fix(mobile): keep iPadOS Threads toolbar visible after resizing

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On iPadOS 26, widening the Threads window and then shrinking it can leave the native search toolbar wider than the window, clipping the filter and new-task buttons. This PR lets the toolbar shrink within the current safe area and return to its preferred width when the iPad window expands.

The native toolbar now uses a preferred width with required safe-area edge constraints. The iOS split-view Home route clears the compact toolbar when the thread list moves into the sidebar. The rebase preserves current main's keyboard-editing priorities and Android header behavior.

Platform scope

This replaces closed PR #4898 and fixes iPadOS window resizing. #5385 restored Android tablet/foldable sidebar controls and did not contain these native iOS constraint changes. The resize defect remains reproducible on main. The changed constraints are in the shared iOS native toolbar implementation.

Before / after

Fresh captures from the same seeded environment on an iPad Pro 13-inch (M5), iPadOS 26.5. A left-tiled window narrows when the iPad rotates from landscape to portrait. The baseline uses main's native constraints at e0e0bcb115; the after capture uses this PR. Capture orientation is normalized for comparison.

Before: controls clipped	After: controls remain visible

Before recording · After recording, including widening again

Verification

• Rebased onto main at d081ab7abc; migrated the native change to react-native-screens@4.26.2.
• Fresh native Debug build and launch on the iPad simulator pass.
• Reproduced clipping with main's native constraints; verified narrowing and widening with this PR.
• Filter menu and new-task project picker open at the narrow width; returning to full-screen split view clears the compact bottom toolbar.
• pnpm exec vp run --filter @t3tools/mobile typecheck passes.
• Targeted formatting passes; targeted lint reports one pre-existing react(set-state-in-effect) warning outside this change.
• git diff --check passes.

Models: GPT-5.6 Sol (original implementation), GPT-6 (rebase and verification) | Harness: Codex in T3 Code

Note

Fix iPadOS Threads toolbar visibility after resizing in HomeRouteScreen

• In split layouts, HomeRouteScreen now sets an empty unstable_headerToolbarItems screen option so native stack toolbar items are cleared when the route renders.
• Patches react-native-screens to change the iOS 26 toolbar width calculation: uses a configured preferred width or a 560-point default instead of the host-size-derived fallback, with Auto Layout able to reduce it within safe-area bounds (18-point insets).
• Risk: the new preferred-width constraint in react-native-screens@4.26.2.patch changes toolbar sizing on iOS 26; verify the 560-point default and clamping logic render correctly across iPad sizes.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added iOS navigation header support for subtitles, navigation styles, centered and toolbar button groups, search fields, and glass-style controls.
  • Added flexible spacing and identifiers for header buttons and items.

• Bug Fixes

  • Back-swipe gestures now yield to navigation gestures at the edge of horizontally scrollable content.
  • Unsupported header items are filtered to prevent rendering issues.
  • Toolbar items no longer appear in non-Android split-view headers.

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Approvability

Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — The resize fix is narrowly scoped and preserves the existing toolbar across iPad window changes, while the split-view cleanup prevents stale toolbar state. However, it changes the native toolbar’s default sizing behavior, including the 560-point preferred width and safe-area clamping, which warrants human verification across iPad sizes.

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Walkthrough

The changes update native header item handling and Mail search toolbar layout in the patched screens implementation. The non-Android split-view options also set toolbar items to an empty array.

Changes

Header chrome integration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Header item preparation patches/react-native-screens@4.26.2.patch	Header processing collects center items, converts supported item shapes, validates insertion positions, supports flexible spacing, and maps subtitle, large subtitle, and navigation-item style values.
Mail search toolbar layout patches/react-native-screens@4.26.2.patch	Toolbar reuse does not depend on host width. The preferred width is configured or defaults to 560 points, is clamped to zero or greater, and uses safe-area constraints.
Split-view toolbar options apps/mobile/src/features/home/HomeRouteScreen.tsx	The non-Android split-view options set toolbar items to an empty array.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~15 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 0ce7b

Most toolbar resizing behavior is addressed, but supplying a negative width through an alternate search-item API can still produce an invalid layout. This is a narrow issue for affected configurations and is suitable for owner awareness and follow-up.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 0ce7b

The changes affect iPad toolbar layout and navigation state, but the review found no new data-access or privilege path. Some runtime behavior across layout transitions remains unverified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The observed change is confined to mobile navigation controls and their native layout; the inspected changed paths do not add a network, credential, or authorization operation.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The toolbar factories receive app-provided search, filter, and navigation callbacks. The split-view reset supplies no replacement callback or authority.

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✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: keeping the iPadOS Threads toolbar visible after window resizing.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description clearly explains the problem, implementation, platform scope, UI impact, verification steps, and before/after behavior. It does not include the template's explicit Checklist section, b…
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patches/react-native-screens@4.26.2.patch (2)

785-790: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Clamp exposed item widths before creating required constraints.

width?: number can pass a negative value to the mailSearchToolbar, searchField, and custom-view searchBarPlacement paths. UIKit does not support negative view dimensions, so these required constraints can become unsatisfiable. Apply MAX(0.0, width.doubleValue) at each conversion site, as in the primary toolbar path.

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In `@patches/react-native-screens`@4.26.2.patch around lines 785 - 790, Clamp
every exposed width conversion to a nonnegative value before constructing views
or required constraints, including the mailSearchToolbar, searchField, and
custom-view searchBarPlacement paths. Update each width.doubleValue conversion
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1587-1597: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Regenerate the helper declaration.

prepareHeaderBarButtonItems is reachable through the package’s lib/typescript surface. Its implementation accepts an array, a single item, or nullish input, and returns search-item shapes. The declaration accepts only HeaderBarButtonItem[] and omits those output types, so deep-import consumers can receive an incorrect contract.

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In `@patches/react-native-screens`@4.26.2.patch around lines 1587 - 1597,
Regenerate the declaration for prepareHeaderBarButtonItems to match its
implementation and lib/typescript export: accept an array, single
HeaderBarButtonItem, or nullish input, support the existing side values
including center and toolbar, and declare the returned search-item shapes rather
than only the current button-item spacing union.

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Inline comments:
In `@patches/react-native-screens`@4.26.2.patch:
- Around line 445-447: Update updateViewController: so mailSearchToolbarKey no
longer includes chromeHostView.bounds.size.width, allowing the existing toolbar
to be reused across iPad window resizes. Preserve the existing constraint-based
relayout, including preferredWidthConstraint, so query text and first-responder
focus are retained.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@patches/react-native-screens`@4.26.2.patch:
- Around line 785-790: Clamp every exposed width conversion to a nonnegative
value before constructing views or required constraints, including the
mailSearchToolbar, searchField, and custom-view searchBarPlacement paths. Update
each width.doubleValue conversion to use a zero lower bound, while preserving
the existing fallback width behavior.
- Around line 1587-1597: Regenerate the declaration for
prepareHeaderBarButtonItems to match its implementation and lib/typescript
export: accept an array, single HeaderBarButtonItem, or nullish input, support
the existing side values including center and toolbar, and declare the returned
search-item shapes rather than only the current button-item spacing union.

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