[juliusmarminge]

ThreadDetailScreen.handleSendMessage dropped composer focus after every successful send: it dismissed the iOS keyboard when one was visible and called blur() otherwise. A hardware keyboard on iPad has no software keyboard, so the composer was blurred after each Enter. The editor's native onSubmit is fired only by a hardware-keyboard Return (T3ComposerEditor.types: on-screen keyboards always insert a newline), so ThreadComposer's onSubmit handler now calls handleSend(followUp, true). That keepFocus flag goes through onSendMessage to handleSendMessage, which then does not arm the keyboard dismissal, does not blur, and runs the follow-submission scroll without waiting on KeyboardController.dismiss(). The Send button keeps the old behaviour. The same onSubmit path also handles Ctrl+Enter on an Android hardware keyboard, so it keeps focus there too. No regex or parser was added. The bug was not reproduced on a device: the pool simulators cannot send a hardware-keyboard Return (the reporter hit the same limit), so the fix rests on reading the code path the reporter identified.

Fixes #34394

Reproduction on main

Commit d2c2595 (origin/main). Ran the isolated dev server (T3CODE_DEV_SEED=0, bound 0.0.0.0) and Metro, leased 'iPad Pro 13-inch (M5)' (iOS 27.2) from the device pool, installed the cached dev client with vp run mobile:install ios --session, paired via the test-t3-mobile pairing helper. Opened the thread, tapped the composer, typed 'hello one' (snapshot showed the text-view [focused]), tapped Send. The message sent and a turn started, then the keyboard closed, the composer collapsed to the one-row 'Ask anything' state, and the snapshot no longer showed the text-view focused. I could not press a hardware-keyboard Enter: the pool simulators only have the software keyboard, and agent-device type "\n" / keyboard return insert a newline through it instead of firing the composer's UIKeyCommand. That key command only calls the same onSubmit -> ThreadComposer.handleSend -> ThreadDetailScreen.handleSendMessage chain the Send button uses, and that chain is where focus is dropped.

Evidence

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Tests

vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip 1/2 and 2/2, typecheck (2 packages), react compiler (2 files) and nearby tests (1 file, 7 passed) all passed. No new test: the change is focus wiring in a React Native screen that the existing tests cannot reach, and the pool simulators cannot send a hardware-keyboard Return.

Not in this change

• The Send button still drops focus after a send even when a hardware keyboard is attached. Whether to detect a hardware keyboard for button sends too is a separate behaviour change.

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Verdict: Approved at 00056cc

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Hardware-keyboard sends now preserve composer focus so typing can continue. The change is limited to keyboard and focus handling; touch sends and message dispatch remain unchanged.

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Walkthrough

Editor submits now pass a focus-retention option through message handling. When it is enabled, the thread screen skips the relevant blur and keyboard-dismissal actions.

Changes: Composer focus retention

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Pass and apply focus retention apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadComposer.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadDetailScreen.tsx	Editor submits pass keepFocus: true to message handling. When keepFocus is true, the thread screen skips the iOS keyboard-dismissal transition, composer blur, and scheduled keyboard dismissal.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~8 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#24827: Refactors the thread send path and post-send feed scrolling, including changes to focus retention and keyboard dismissal.

Suggested reviewers: maria-rcks, macroscopeapp

Merge Risk: Low · up to 00056

Editor submits now keep the composer focused after sending. No concrete defect was found, but the change ships without automated coverage, so a test for the focus-retention path should be added as a follow-up.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Description check		The description explains the problem, implementation, scope, reproduction limits, tests, and unchanged Send button behavior. However, the required UI evidence is incomplete because the Evidence sectio…	Add and embed clear before-and-after screenshots, plus a short recording if needed to demonstrate the focus interaction. Replace the Evidence placeholder with the uploaded evidence. Document the linked issue with explicit maintainer approva…

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: preserving composer focus after a hardware-keyboard send.
Linked Issues check		Issue #34394 requires the iPad hardware-keyboard Enter path to keep the composer focused after send. ThreadComposer passes keepFocus: true for the editor onSubmit path. `ThreadDetailScreen.handl…
Out of Scope Changes check		The diff changes only the focus flag wiring in ThreadComposer.tsx and ThreadDetailScreen.tsx. These changes directly implement issue #34394. No unrelated behavior, parser, or hardware-keyboard det…

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Explanation

Issue #34394 requires the iPad hardware-keyboard Enter path to keep the composer focused after send. ThreadComposer passes keepFocus: true for the editor onSubmit path. ThreadDetailScreen.handleSendMessage uses that flag to skip iOS keyboard dismissal, skip blur, and continue follow-up scrolling without waiting for dismissal. Other send paths keep the default behavior.

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The diff changes only the focus flag wiring in ThreadComposer.tsx and ThreadDetailScreen.tsx. These changes directly implement issue #34394. No unrelated behavior, parser, or hardware-keyboard detection change is present.

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The description explains the problem, implementation, scope, reproduction limits, tests, and unchanged Send button behavior. However, the required UI evidence is incomplete because the Evidence section still says it is being captured. The Scope and approval section also does not document maintainer approval or why this focused fix qualifies without it.

Resolution

Add and embed clear before-and-after screenshots, plus a short recording if needed to demonstrate the focus interaction. Replace the Evidence placeholder with the uploaded evidence. Document the linked issue with explicit maintainer approval, or explain why this obvious focused bug fix qualifies without prior approval.

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#!/bin/bash
rg -n -C 4 'keepFocus|sendingWithKeyboard|onComposerSubmit|handleSendMessage' apps/mobile --glob '*test*'

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#!/bin/bash
git diff --stat 31eea883c7f7849ada6eb49265cb11fc64d2ecbd 00056cc5e476e02c3594d1079bed95675c6f650f -- apps/mobile
git diff --unified=35 31eea883c7f7849ada6eb49265cb11fc64d2ecbd 00056cc5e476e02c3594d1079bed95675c6f650f -- apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadDetailScreen.tsx
printf '\nMOBILE TEST FILES\n'
rg --files apps/mobile | rg '(\.test\.|\.spec\.|__tests__)' || test "$?" -eq 1
printf '\nCOMPOSER REFERENCES\n'
rg -n -F -e 'ThreadComposer' -e 'onSubmitEditing' -e 'handleSendMessage' -- apps/mobile/src/features/threads || test "$?" -eq 1

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#!/bin/bash
git diff --unified=25 31eea883c7f7849ada6eb49265cb11fc64d2ecbd 00056cc5e476e02c3594d1079bed95675c6f650f -- apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadComposer.tsx
printf '\nSUBMIT AND BUTTON CALLS\n'
rg -n -C 5 -e 'onSendMessage|onSubmit|onPress|keepFocus' apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadComposer.tsx
printf '\nNEARBY TESTS\n'
cat -n apps/mobile/src/components/ComposerEditor.ios.test.tsx
cat -n apps/mobile/src/features/threads/composerSendPresentation.test.ts
printf '\nOTHER TEST REFERENCES\n'
rg -n --glob '*test*' -e 'ThreadDetailScreen|ThreadDetailBody|ThreadComposer|ComposerEditor|KeyboardController\.dismiss|\.blur\(' apps/mobile/src || test "$?" -eq 1

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cat -n apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadComposer.tsx | sed -n '1038,1062p;1124,1145p;1191,1215p'
cat -n apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadDetailScreen.tsx | sed -n '1298,1353p;1906,1918p'
rg -n -C 4 -e 'onSubmit' -e 'onComposerSubmit' apps/mobile/src/components/ComposerEditor.tsx apps/mobile/src/native/T3ComposerEditor.ios.tsx apps/mobile/modules/t3-composer-editor 2>/dev/null || test "$?" -eq 1

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Add regression coverage for retained focus.

Add a test at the lowest layer that exercises the send behavior. Check that a successful editor submit keeps focus and that a button send retains its existing dismissal behavior.

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Review comment at @apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadDetailScreen.tsx at line 1307:
Add regression coverage at the lowest layer that exercises the send behavior around keepFocus: verify a successful editor submit preserves focus, while a button-triggered send retains its existing focus-dismissal behavior.

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[juliusmarminge]

The automated pipeline stopped on this pull request and will not merge it:

in the real app the problem is still there, and the rework changed nothing:

No code change this round; the head is still 00056cc. The run that reported 'still happens' tapped the Send button with the on-screen keyboard. The fix leaves that path alone on purpose: tapping Send on a phone keyboard is meant to close the keyboard and blur the composer, which is the #3545 behaviour the issue says was chosen for phone keyboards. The bug is about Enter on a hardware keyboard, which goes through a different path. The native UIKeyCommand in T3ComposerEditorView.swift (submitMessage and submitMessageAlternate) only calls onSubmit and does not resign first responder. ThreadComposer's onSubmit handler is the only caller that passes keepFocus=true. With it set, handleSendMessage does not arm the keyboard dismissal, does not blur, and does not await KeyboardController.dismiss() before the follow-submission scroll. I checked every other blur(), Keyboard.dismiss() and KeyboardController.dismiss() in ThreadComposer, T3ComposerEditor.ios and ThreadDetailScreen: they belong to mentions, opening documents, collapsing user input and sidebar flows, and none runs during a send. So the item asks for a change to button behaviour, which would be a separate change and not this fix; I did not make it. The fix is still not proven on a device, because the pool simulators cannot send a hardware-keyboard Return.

It stays open for a person to finish or close.

[ramarivera]

Happy to test this on a real iPad with a physical keyboard if that's useful. I can run the PR build and report back whether the composer keeps focus after sending with Return. Let me know if you want that.