[IOS] headerLargeTitle: true with headerBackTitleVisible: false makes back button animation jerky

[iliapnmrv]

Description

It is a copy of issue from here as it was labeled as react-native-screens
react-navigation/react-navigation#11946. Issue is half a year old but it persists even on newer versions of react-native-screens.

https://github.com/iliapnmrv/rn-navigation-headerLargeTitle-bug

Steps to reproduce

the video is pretty much self-explainatory
only setting headerBackTitleVisible: true resolves the issue

323551377-3ba2005f-e2c2-4009-ae67-adf654c010d4.mp4

323551060-81dd3690-45f1-4e1d-b0b8-41b71a602c8a.mp4

Snack or a link to a repository

https://snack.expo.dev/@iliapnmrv/headerlargetitle_headerbacktitlevisible

Screens version

3.30.1, 4.0.0

React Native version

0.75.4

Platforms

iOS

JavaScript runtime

None

Workflow

React Native (without Expo)

Architecture

Paper (Old Architecture)

Build type

None

Device

iOS simulator

Device model

No response

Acknowledgements

Yes

[hirbod]

This bug is also related to #2548

[kkafar]

@iliapnmrv hey, thanks for reporting. I confirm that the issue is reproducible. Do you have any idea when the bug was introduced?

[kkafar]

Initial debugging notes (for future me): setting headerBackButtonDisplayMode: 'minimal' results in backButtonItem being customised (overriden by our custom instance), while default options stay with the UIKit created instance. When we override the instance the problem with "jumping button" arises.

Additional note: setting headerBackButtonDisplayMode: 'minimal' in JS does not result in appropriate value being received on native side - it changes headerBackButtonTitleVisible prop value to false, however the displayMode remains default. Need to take a look what react-navigation does there.

[iliapnmrv]

@kkafar Hey! Unfortunately no, I just wanted to implement the feature and it did not work from the start, so I created an issue

[iliapnmrv]

Hi! Looks like this issue has been fixed here #2800.

Thank you so much for your work!

[iliapnmrv]

@kkafar Hi! I've updated to iOS 26 and this issue appeared. Can you please take a look?

I've updated my snack.

"react-native-screens": "4.16.0",
"@react-navigation/native": "7.1.17",
"@react-navigation/native-stack": "7.3.26",

header-back-title.mp4

[GorkaMM]

Happening on iOS 26 again, yes. I can confirm. Using Expo SDK 54 up-to-date