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What Changed

Keep the native iOS Threads search field alive when an iPad window changes width. The toolbar reuse key now tracks its configuration, and a reused toolbar updates its existing width constraint.

Why

On main, resizing an iPad window and then refreshing its native header rebuilds the search toolbar. The replacement field is empty and loses keyboard focus. Reusing the field preserves the query, focus, and cursor position while retaining the existing width calculation.

Related to #10629 and its search-state review finding. This branch is based directly on main at d29c56a5c4 and was built and tested without #10629's toolbar clipping changes. The PRs are independent.

UI Changes

Matched native builds on an iPad Pro 13-inch (M5), iPadOS 26.5 simulator, using a seeded thread list. After entering Remote, a left-tiled window narrows from 683 to 511 points. A debugger triggers the native header refresh to exercise the reuse path consistently.

Main: empty replacement field, focus lost This PR: query and focus retained
Main after resize and header refresh: search is empty Search fix after resize and header refresh: Remote remains in the active field

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Verification

  • Fresh native builds of unmodified main and this standalone fix pass.
  • Main reproduces the empty replacement field and lost focus after resize plus header refresh.
  • This fix retains the same field, Remote, focus, and cursor offset 3 when narrowing and widening. The toolbar width updates 560 → 475 → 560 points.
  • Typing x afterward produces Remxote at the saved cursor position; the thread results update.
  • Mobile typecheck, staged formatting, and git diff --check pass.
  • Changes are limited to the iOS native patch and its lockfile references. Runtime verification covers iPad; Android, web, desktop, providers, and transport are unchanged.

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  • This PR is small and focused
  • I explained what changed and why
  • I included before/after screenshots for any UI changes
  • I included a video for animation/interaction changes

Model: GPT-6 (implementation and independent verification) | Harness: Codex in T3 Code

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added iOS navigation subtitles and customizable navigation item styles.
    • Added center header buttons, toolbar items, Mail-style search toolbars, search placement options, glass-effect buttons, header subview identifiers, and flexible toolbar spacing.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved back-gesture behavior: it takes precedence when a horizontal scroll view is at its leading edge.

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Verdict: Approved at 633700f

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This focused iOS bug fix preserves the existing search field and focus during iPad resizing while updating only its width constraint; the accompanying lockfile changes are mechanical. It does not introduce a new capability, schema change, product-default change, or static-analysis suppression.

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Walkthrough

The patch adds iOS navigation header subtitles and styles, center and toolbar items, search item types, item grouping and caching, and Mail-search toolbar sizing. It also adds Android no-op setters for the new codegen props and changes horizontal scroll-view precedence at the leading edge.

Changes

iOS navigation header

Layer / File(s) Summary
Header properties and item collection
patches/react-native-screens@4.26.2.patch
The header configuration applies subtitles and navigation item styles, collects header items, and converts center and toolbar props.
Item conversion and grouping
patches/react-native-screens@4.26.2.patch
The item builder converts search and toolbar definitions, validates item indexes, supports flexible spacing, and groups items with shared backgrounds.
Placement caching and toolbar sizing
patches/react-native-screens@4.26.2.patch
The header caches item groups and toolbar configurations. Reused Mail-search toolbars receive an updated width constraint.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant RNSScreenStackHeaderConfig
  participant barButtonItemsFromConfigs
  participant UINavigationItem
  RNSScreenStackHeaderConfig->>barButtonItemsFromConfigs: pass item configs and navigationItem
  barButtonItemsFromConfigs->>UINavigationItem: use navigation item for search placement
  barButtonItemsFromConfigs->>RNSScreenStackHeaderConfig: return converted bar button items
  RNSScreenStackHeaderConfig->>UINavigationItem: apply grouped header items
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 63370

Resolve the toolbar reuse concern and the open legacy configuration issue before merging; either can leave the native search toolbar displaying incorrectly.

Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 63370

The change affects 1 system.

Changed systems: patches

Architecture concerns
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Review details

Systems and components

  • observed — patches (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

  • observed — Modified behavior in patches/react-native-screens@4.26.2.patch: Adds associated-object cache keys for header placements and toolbar configs, a placement-cache update helper, Mail-search toolbar width resolution, and conversion from generated navigation-item styles to UIKit styles.
  • observed — Modified behavior in patches/react-native-screens@4.26.2.patch: Declares the iOS bar-button-item grouping method.
  • observed — Modified behavior in patches/react-native-screens@4.26.2.patch: Defaults the navigation-item style to Navigator and assigns compact and large subtitles on iOS 26+, including while the navigation bar is hidden.
  • observed — Modified behavior in patches/react-native-screens@4.26.2.patch: Applies the configured navigation-item style on iOS 16+ and subtitles on iOS 26+.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: preserving iPad search state after window resizing.
Description check ✅ Passed The description explains what changed, why it changed, the UI impact, verification results, and includes the required screenshots, video, and completed checklist.
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
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799-799: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Exclude legacy bottom toolbar configs from bar button item creation.

If a right header item has both mailSearchToolbar and bottomMailSearchToolbar, this branch creates a navigation-bar search item. Lines 389-395 also select the same config to create the floating mail-search toolbar. The screen then shows two search toolbars.

Filter that legacy config from headerRightConfigs before calling barButtonItemsFromConfigs:, or skip this branch when bottomMailSearchToolbar is set.

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In `@patches/react-native-screens`@4.26.2.patch at line 799, Update the
header-right bar button creation flow around barButtonItemsFromConfigs: so
configs containing both mailSearchToolbar and bottomMailSearchToolbar are
excluded from navigation-bar search item creation. Preserve the existing
bottomMailSearchToolbar selection for the floating mail-search toolbar and avoid
creating duplicate search toolbars.
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In `@patches/react-native-screens`@4.26.2.patch:
- Line 799: Update the header-right bar button creation flow around
barButtonItemsFromConfigs: so configs containing both mailSearchToolbar and
bottomMailSearchToolbar are excluded from navigation-bar search item creation.
Preserve the existing bottomMailSearchToolbar selection for the floating
mail-search toolbar and avoid creating duplicate search toolbars.

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In `@patches/react-native-screens`@4.26.2.patch:
- Line 412: Update the mailSearchToolbarKey construction to include the active
navitem.searchController identity when mailSearchToolbarConfig sets
useFallbackSearchField to false; use a null sentinel when fallback search is
enabled or no controller exists. Preserve the existing config and toolbar-config
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