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fix(mobile): the iOS composer keeps its keyboard and caret after dictation - #33916
On iOS, starting the in-app dictation from a focused composer leaves the composer unfocused when the dictation ends. After you cancel, or after the transcript is inserted, the keyboard stays down, the composer is back in its one-row resting layout, the caret is at the start of the draft, a long draft has scrolled back to its first lines, and an attached image shows as the small thumbnail instead of the strip. No text is lost, but you have to tap the draft and find your place again before you can keep typing.
To reproduce on main: focus the composer, type a line, tap the mic, then tap X or the check mark.
Expected: the composer is the way it was before the mic tap.
Change
While dictation is shown, ThreadComposer hid the editor with display: none. On iOS, React Native destroys the native view of a display: none node and mounts a new one when it is shown again, so every dictation ended with a new editor view. #30139 made that new view load the draft. Its focus, caret and scroll position were still gone.
On iOS the editor no longer gets display: none, so the same native view stays mounted through the dictation. It does not need that hide: since #27249 the editor sits inside the row (ComposerDictationDraftContent) that already hides its contents while dictation is shown (transparent, no touches, hidden from accessibility). Before #23467 the editor lived in that row without display: none.
No focus code is added. The row's pointerEvents: "none" reaches UIKit as userInteractionEnabled = NO, which makes the editor resign first responder, so the keyboard still goes away while you dictate. When the row takes touches again, UIKit makes the editor first responder again. I confirmed both from stack traces.
Android keeps the display: none. React Native only marks such a view invisible there and does not destroy it, and I had no Android emulator to check a change on.
Product code: +4/-1 in one file. No test, for the reason given under Verification.
Scope and approval
No prior issue. This is a small fix for an obvious bug: cancelling a dictation should not close the keyboard or move the caret. The caret half was raised in the review of #30139 and left open there: "Caret restoration for an unchanged cancel can be a follow-up." (comment). #31317 fixed the same loss of keyboard and focus after a queued edit, also by keeping the editor mounted. The change adds no setting, default or API.
Verification
Tested head dfc4698ba. The commit after it, 156b51c4d, only shortens the code comment.
Simulator: iPhone 17 Pro, iOS 27.0, on-screen keyboard, development client. Before (ca796d521) and after ran on the same native build; only the JS differs. The simulator has no on-device transcriber, so a temporary stand-in transcriber supplied the transcript text. Recording used the real recorder. The stand-in and the logging quoted below are not part of this PR.
Steps, starting with the keyboard up and a typed draft
main
this PR
Mic, then X during Preparing or Recording
keyboard down, editor unfocused, caret at the start
keyboard up, editor focused, caret where it was
Mic, then the check mark
transcript inserted, keyboard down
transcript inserted, caret after it, keyboard up
Seven-line draft scrolled to its end, mic, X
scrolled back to the top
still at the end
Attached image, mic, X
small thumbnail in the toolbar row
image strip above the text, as before
Keyboard down before the mic, then mic, X
unfocused, as before
unfocused, as before
Also restored on this PR: a draft with an inline chip, an empty draft, a preparation error and a retry, three start and cancel rounds in a row, a cancel about 200 ms after the mic tap, the New thread screen, and opening the settings sheet right after a cancel.
What the logging showed for the first row (N# numbers the editor's native view, sel is the caret, fr is first responder; lines shortened). On main the view is destroyed and a new one is created:
Before, on main (cancel, then a finished dictation):
before-cancel.mp4before-transcript.mp4
After, on dfc4698ba:
after-cancel.mp4after-transcript.mp4
Long draft after a cancel, main then this PR:
Attached image after a cancel, main then this PR:
vp run check:changed passes: format, lint, knip, typecheck, the React Compiler check and the tests beside the change.
No automated test. The view is destroyed by React Native's mounting layer, which neither the jsdom tests nor the UIKit harness run, and a test of the style entry would only repeat the code.
Different from main, worth knowing:
If the app is backgrounded during a dictation, or the dictation finishes while another screen covers the thread, the editor is focused when you come back. Main leaves it unfocused.
A focus() call that arrives while dictation is shown now reaches the hidden editor and raises the keyboard under the dictation bar. The editor stays read-only and nothing can be typed. On main there is no view to focus. The one path I found needs the mic tapped within about 100 ms of closing an attachment preview, which refocuses the editor after that delay.
An edit that reaches JS after the composer locks is acknowledged by the bridge and dropped by ThreadComposer on both versions. I forced one with a debugger. Main loses it and then leaves the next keystroke out of the draft. This PR keeps it in the box until the next keystroke puts both in the draft. A Send in between leaves one character out either way. fix(mobile): Send includes text the iOS composer shows after voice input #33512 changes that acknowledgement.
Not checked:
A physical iPhone, and iOS 27.2.
Real speech.
Android, which this PR leaves unchanged.
iPad with a hardware keyboard, and VoiceOver.
A question card arriving in the middle of a dictation.
Implemented with Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Fable 5.2 in Claude Code, reviewed with GPT-6.1 Sol in Codex, all run from T3 Code.
…ation
The composer hid its editor with display: none while dictation was shown.
On iOS that destroys the editor's native view, so cancelling or finishing
a dictation left a new, unfocused editor: the keyboard stayed down, the
caret was back at the start and a long draft was scrolled to the top.
The row the editor sits in already hides its contents during dictation,
so on iOS the editor now stays mounted.
Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — The change preserves the iOS composer’s native editor during dictation so keyboard focus and caret state can survive, while retaining Android’s existing behavior. Its scope is limited to UI lifecycle handling, with existing interaction and accessibility hiding preserved.
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pingdotgg/t3code#24827: Refactors voice-input handling, including focus and selection updates when dictation commits.
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Suggested reviewers:juliusmarminge
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On iOS, the composer should keep its keyboard and caret after dictation. Android behavior is unchanged. No merge-blocking risk is evident from the supplied context.
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Review comments at @apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadComposer.tsx:
- Line 934: Add a regression test for dictation in ThreadComposer that runs on
iOS and exercises the native editor view: focus the editor, set a caret, start
dictation, then cancel it. Assert that the editor remains focused and the
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The reasoning checks out against the history. display: "none" was added in #23467, when the editor sat outside ComposerDictationDraftContent. Since the move into that row, the row already hides it during dictation with animated opacity, pointerEvents="none" and the accessibility-hidden props. Keeping it mounted on iOS only is a minimal change, and Android behaviour is unchanged. I agree with the conclusion of the CodeRabbit thread that a style-level test would only repeat the code.
Low (optional): guard the delayed refocus during dictation (apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadComposer.tsx, closePreview, about line 647 on main). You noted that a focus() arriving while dictation is shown now raises the keyboard under the dictation bar, because the editor view still exists. The path you found is the 100 ms setTimeout in closePreview, which calls inputRef.current?.focus(). A ref that mirrors isVoiceInputPresented would let that timeout skip the focus. The closure's own copy of the state would be stale. That would close the one reproducible path without adding focus code anywhere else.
The description lists physical device, real speech, VoiceOver and iPad hardware keyboard as not checked. These are worth a quick pass before merge, especially VoiceOver, because the hidden editor now stays in the native tree.
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Problem
On iOS, starting the in-app dictation from a focused composer leaves the composer unfocused when the dictation ends. After you cancel, or after the transcript is inserted, the keyboard stays down, the composer is back in its one-row resting layout, the caret is at the start of the draft, a long draft has scrolled back to its first lines, and an attached image shows as the small thumbnail instead of the strip. No text is lost, but you have to tap the draft and find your place again before you can keep typing.
To reproduce on main: focus the composer, type a line, tap the mic, then tap X or the check mark.
Expected: the composer is the way it was before the mic tap.
Change
While dictation is shown,
ThreadComposerhid the editor withdisplay: none. On iOS, React Native destroys the native view of adisplay: nonenode and mounts a new one when it is shown again, so every dictation ended with a new editor view. #30139 made that new view load the draft. Its focus, caret and scroll position were still gone.On iOS the editor no longer gets
display: none, so the same native view stays mounted through the dictation. It does not need that hide: since #27249 the editor sits inside the row (ComposerDictationDraftContent) that already hides its contents while dictation is shown (transparent, no touches, hidden from accessibility). Before #23467 the editor lived in that row withoutdisplay: none.No focus code is added. The row's
pointerEvents: "none"reaches UIKit asuserInteractionEnabled = NO, which makes the editor resign first responder, so the keyboard still goes away while you dictate. When the row takes touches again, UIKit makes the editor first responder again. I confirmed both from stack traces.Android keeps the
display: none. React Native only marks such a view invisible there and does not destroy it, and I had no Android emulator to check a change on.Product code: +4/-1 in one file. No test, for the reason given under Verification.
Scope and approval
No prior issue. This is a small fix for an obvious bug: cancelling a dictation should not close the keyboard or move the caret. The caret half was raised in the review of #30139 and left open there: "Caret restoration for an unchanged cancel can be a follow-up." (comment). #31317 fixed the same loss of keyboard and focus after a queued edit, also by keeping the editor mounted. The change adds no setting, default or API.
Verification
Tested head
dfc4698ba. The commit after it,156b51c4d, only shortens the code comment.Simulator: iPhone 17 Pro, iOS 27.0, on-screen keyboard, development client. Before (
ca796d521) and after ran on the same native build; only the JS differs. The simulator has no on-device transcriber, so a temporary stand-in transcriber supplied the transcript text. Recording used the real recorder. The stand-in and the logging quoted below are not part of this PR.Also restored on this PR: a draft with an inline chip, an empty draft, a preparation error and a retry, three start and cancel rounds in a row, a cancel about 200 ms after the mic tap, the New thread screen, and opening the settings sheet right after a cancel.
What the logging showed for the first row (
N#numbers the editor's native view,selis the caret,fris first responder; lines shortened). On main the view is destroyed and a new one is created:On this PR the same view comes back:
Before, on main (cancel, then a finished dictation):
before-cancel.mp4
before-transcript.mp4
After, on
dfc4698ba:after-cancel.mp4
after-transcript.mp4
Long draft after a cancel, main then this PR:
Attached image after a cancel, main then this PR:
vp run check:changedpasses: format, lint, knip, typecheck, the React Compiler check and the tests beside the change.No automated test. The view is destroyed by React Native's mounting layer, which neither the jsdom tests nor the UIKit harness run, and a test of the style entry would only repeat the code.
Different from main, worth knowing:
focus()call that arrives while dictation is shown now reaches the hidden editor and raises the keyboard under the dictation bar. The editor stays read-only and nothing can be typed. On main there is no view to focus. The one path I found needs the mic tapped within about 100 ms of closing an attachment preview, which refocuses the editor after that delay.ThreadComposeron both versions. I forced one with a debugger. Main loses it and then leaves the next keystroke out of the draft. This PR keeps it in the box until the next keystroke puts both in the draft. A Send in between leaves one character out either way. fix(mobile): Send includes text the iOS composer shows after voice input #33512 changes that acknowledgement.Not checked:
Implemented with Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Fable 5.2 in Claude Code, reviewed with GPT-6.1 Sol in Codex, all run from T3 Code.