Redirects misbehaving, missing back button or back button goes back to wrong page

[dennispaagman]

I was playing with the 1.3 beta and noticed that tabs gets stuck after a redirect.

A few examples with the demo app:

Opening a redirect first, no back button, so the tab is stuck:

RocketSim_Recording_iPhone_17_Pro_6.3_2025-10-14_15.19.04.mp4

I also noticed something strange with redirects after the first page:

Here I open a regular page first, then a redirect (for this I added the redirect navigation item to page, navigations#show in the demo app). There is back button now, but this resets the tab to the first page, not the second page. So it's probably the back button from the previous page.

RocketSim_Recording_iPhone_17_Pro_6.3_2025-10-14_15.18.29.mp4

This all works as expected in 1.2!

[joemasilotti]

Great catch - I'm glad we released a beta of v0.1.3!

This was introduced in PRs #154 and #160. I think the check for popping the underlying controller is a bit too aggressive and needs to be tuned. I'll see what I can do.

[joemasilotti]

@dennispaagman, can you try PR #192 and see if that works for you? Here's what I'm seeing now:

RocketSim_Recording_iPhone_17_Pro_6.3_2025-10-15_09.15.47.mov

[dennispaagman]

yes works for me as well! Also in my own app.

[svara]

I don't see this behaviour on iOS < 18. However, I can consistently reproduce this on iOS 18+, especially with the tab bar changes in #185.

@joemasilotti The external redirect is a cross-origin redirect, thus doesn't go through the same code path.
The redirect without popping works because the visit proposal has a replace action. Can we always assume this will be the case?

[joemasilotti]

The redirect without popping works because the visit proposal has a replace action. Can we always assume this will be the case?

I don't think so, no. I'm honestly not sure why the visit proposal has a replace action in the first place here.