[iOS] Keep button hit testing within its own subtree - #4495
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Stop the upward hit-test search at the button when no eligible target has been found. This prevents returning an ancestor outside the button’s subtree while keeping eligible descendants reachable.
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WalkthroughDisabled buttons now ignore macOS mouse events and iOS touch tracking. The hit-test loop stops at the button when it rejects a touch, preventing traversal into ancestor views. ChangesDisabled button interactions
Suggested reviewers: Priority: ➖ Normal — Schedule this iOS hit-testing fix because it prevents a native crash when tapping disabled gesture-handler areas in SwiftUI-backed views. Severity of issue fixed: Medium Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Disabled buttons may still become hit targets or emit interaction callbacks when disabled mid-press, so the change is not ready to merge until boundary rejection and active-input cancellation are handled. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 2 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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The change is small, well-scoped to disabled-button hit testing, and the new guard prevents returning out-of-subtree ancestors without affecting eligible descendant selection.
Pull request overview
Fixes an iOS hit-testing edge case in RNGestureHandlerButton where, when the button is disabled and no eligible descendant view is found, the hit-test search could continue past the button and incorrectly return an ancestor outside the button’s subtree (which can contribute to recursive hit testing / SwiftUI-hosting-related crashes as described in #4494).
Changes:
- Add a boundary guard in
-hitTest:withEvent:to stop the “walk up superviews” loop at the button itself and returnnilinstead of returning an ancestor outside the subtree.
File summaries
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| packages/react-native-gesture-handler/apple/RNGestureHandlerButton.mm | Stops the hit-test eligibility search from walking past a disabled RNGestureHandlerButton into ancestor views by returning nil when the search reaches the button itself. |
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Hi @rileysay! Thank you for this PR!
The change seems ok, but there's one problem - it now allows siblings of disabled buttons to take over the touch, even though they shouldn't.
Here is the example of the failing structure
<View style={{ height: 120 }}>
<Touchable
onPress={() => console.log('outer')}
style={{
position: 'absolute',
inset: 0,
backgroundColor: '#9fd8a8',
}}
/>
<Touchable
disabled
style={{
position: 'absolute',
left: 40,
top: 20,
width: 200,
height: 80,
backgroundColor: '#9a9a9a',
}}
/>
</View>To fix this, we can slightly change the approach:
- Return
selfinstead ofnil, so that button still can become a touch target:
- while (inner && ![self shouldHandleTouch:inner atPoint:point]) {
+ while (inner && inner != self && ![self shouldHandleTouch:inner atPoint:point]) {- Early return from
beginTrackingWithTouch:withEvent:when button is disabled:
- (BOOL)beginTrackingWithTouch:(UITouch *)touch withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
if (!_userEnabled) {
return NO;
}
...- Early return from point 2 should also be applied to
mouseDown,mouseUpandmouseDraggedmethods to keepmacOSbehavior correct.
After that everything should work fine 😅
Stop hit-test traversal at the button itself instead of returning nil. Add disabled-state guards to touch tracking and macOS mouse handlers.
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In `@packages/react-native-gesture-handler/apple/RNGestureHandlerButton.mm`:
- Line 1489: Update the hit-testing logic around shouldHandleTouch:atPoint: so a
disabled boundary RNGestureHandlerButton returns nil even when [super
hitTest:withEvent:] returns self; do not let the inner != self guard skip this
validation. Apply the equivalent boundary-button check in the
RNGestureHandlerPointerEventsBoxOnly branch.
- Around line 1208-1210: Update setUserEnabled: so transitioning to disabled
cancels any active tracking and resets local press state, including
_isTouchInsideBounds and any active press animation, before future input
handlers return. Ensure macOS mouse handling and iOS
continueTrackingWithTouch:withEvent: and endTrackingWithTouch:withEvent: cannot
dispatch drag or up actions after disabling, and add regression coverage for
disabling between touch-down and touch-up.
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Cancel active input when the button becomes disabled.
setUserEnabled: does not cancel active tracking or reset the press state. On macOS, disabled mouseUp: and mouseDragged: return before clearing _isTouchInsideBounds or completing the press animation. On iOS, continueTrackingWithTouch:withEvent: and endTrackingWithTouch:withEvent: can dispatch drag and up actions after the button is disabled.
When disabling the button, cancel active tracking and reset the local press state. Add regression coverage for disabling the button between touch-down and touch-up.
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In `@packages/react-native-gesture-handler/apple/RNGestureHandlerButton.mm` around
lines 1208 - 1210, Update setUserEnabled: so transitioning to disabled cancels
any active tracking and resets local press state, including _isTouchInsideBounds
and any active press animation, before future input handlers return. Ensure
macOS mouse handling and iOS continueTrackingWithTouch:withEvent: and
endTrackingWithTouch:withEvent: cannot dispatch drag or up actions after
disabling, and add regression coverage for disabling between touch-down and
touch-up.
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| while (inner && ![self shouldHandleTouch:inner atPoint:point]) { | ||
| while (inner && inner != self && ![self shouldHandleTouch:inner atPoint:point]) { |
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Return nil when the boundary button is disabled.
shouldHandleTouch:atPoint: rejects a disabled RNGestureHandlerButton, but the inner != self condition skips this check when [super hitTest:withEvent:] returns the boundary button. Return nil when the boundary button fails shouldHandleTouch:atPoint:. Apply the same check to the RNGestureHandlerPointerEventsBoxOnly branch.
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In `@packages/react-native-gesture-handler/apple/RNGestureHandlerButton.mm` at
line 1489, Update the hit-testing logic around shouldHandleTouch:atPoint: so a
disabled boundary RNGestureHandlerButton returns nil even when [super
hitTest:withEvent:] returns self; do not let the inner != self guard skip this
validation. Apply the equivalent boundary-button check in the
RNGestureHandlerPointerEventsBoxOnly branch.
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@m-bert Thanks for the review and the example. I’ve applied the suggested changes and retested the revised patch on iOS and it fixed the sibiling issue. I’ve also added the guards to the macOS mouse methods, but I don’t have a Mac, so I’ll leave that part to the big leagues to test 😅 |
Description
Fixes #4494.
When a disabled
RNGestureHandlerButtonhas no eligible touch target, the hit-test loop can continue past the button and return an ancestor outside its subtree.This change returns
nilwhen the search reaches the button itself without finding an eligible target. Eligible descendants can still be selected before reaching that boundary.The guard prevents the SwiftUI-backed blur crash in my device testing. The suspected connection between returning a hosting ancestor and recursive hit testing is described in the linked issue.
Test plan
Tested the same boundary guard in my app’s test screen on an iPhone 16 Pro running iOS 26.5.2, using an Expo SDK 57 development build with React Native 0.86.3 and Gesture Handler 3.2.1.
React Native’s experimental
enableSwiftUIBasedFiltersflag was enabled.Reproduction project and build instructions:
https://github.com/rileysay/rngh-swiftui-hit-test-repro
The standalone project has built successfully on EAS. The device observations above were recorded using the test screen in my original app.
AI assistance: I used Codex to help investigate the native code, prepare the reproduction project, and propose this patch. I personally verified the device observations above.