In-progress messages do not persist if you view room info or navigate away from composer

[wrjlewis]

Steps to reproduce

1. Where are you starting? What can you see?
   Any room, type something in the composer but don't send it.
2. What do you click?
   The room icon to view details about the room (eg to get to the people list)
3. More steps…
   Return to the main chat pane and your half-written message is gone

Outcome

What did you expect?

For the message to persist when clicking room info, or even visiting a different room in the meantime.

What happened instead?

The message disappeared.

RPReplay_Final1703075030.MP4

Your phone model

iPhone 12 Pro

Operating system version

iOS 17.1.2

Application version

1.4.3

Homeserver

Synapse 1.98 @ wi11.co.uk

Will you send logs?

No

[stonerl]

This also happens when leaving the app. E.g. switching between Element X and Safari.

[stefanceriu]

This also happens when leaving the app

While the original report is a known unimplemented feature I can't reproduce yours. Do you do anything else apart from just switching apps? 🤔

[stonerl]

@stefanceriu It occurs on an iPad. Here is a GIF, that illustrates it:

[stefanceriu]

Tracked it down to here and here but I don't understand why that's necessary. Do you happen to know @Velin92?

(I believe the reason it only happens on an ipad is because we rebuild part of the hierarchy to fix a bug with missing toolbar icons)

[wrjlewis]

@Velin92 The original report here was not the iPad issue (albeit thankful for fixing that 🙌), should we keep this issue open to cover what was originally raised? Or is that covered elsewhere

[stefanceriu]

is that covered elsewhere

No no, let's keep this one open, I'll convert it to a feature

[Velin92]

We also fixed the issue of the composer keeping its content when navigating within the room details, which should be the intended behaviour

Simulator.Screen.Recording.-.iPhone.15.-.2024-01-12.at.11.06.23.mp4

Keeping the content while navigating to other rooms, or after the room is dismissed instead is feature we have not developed yet

[wrjlewis]

Thats awesome! Thanks

Just to be pedantic, the issue also mentioned keeping content when navigating to different rooms, has that also been added?

[stefanceriu]

Okay, we're just going to open a different ticket for the feature and keep this one just for the bugs

[stefanceriu]

Found one on element-meta element-hq/element-meta#1776