[$250] Expense - Recipient list auto scrolls down to reveal only "Contacts" after clearing search field

[vincdargento]

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Version Number: 9.0.89-2
Reproducible in staging?: Yes
Reproducible in production?: No
If this was caught on HybridApp, is this reproducible on New Expensify Standalone?: N/A
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: N/A
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): [email protected]
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team
Device used: Mac 15.0 / Chrome
App Component: Other

Action Performed:

Precondition:

• Account has many contacts (Expensifail account).
• There are a few contacts under Recent section in contact list (create chat with a few users to have some contacts under Recent section).

1. Go to staging.new.expensify.com
2. Open FAB > Create expense > Manual.
3. Enter amount > Next.
4. Type search term that will return a few members in the search result.
5. Clear the search field.

Expected Result:

The recipient list will not scroll down after clearing the search field.

Actual Result:

The recipient list auto scrolls down to reveal only "Contacts" after clearing the search field.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

• Android: Standalone
• Android: HybridApp
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Standalone
• iOS: HybridApp
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

Screenshots/Videos

bug.mp4

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @Pujan92

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @laurenreidexpensify (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details. Please add this bug to a GH project, as outlined in the SO.

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @srikarparsi (DeployBlockerCash), see https://stackoverflowteams.com/c/expensify/questions/9980/ for more details.

[melvin-bot]

💬 A slack conversation has been started in #expensify-open-source

[github-actions]

👋 Friendly reminder that deploy blockers are time-sensitive ⏱ issues! Check out the open `StagingDeployCash` deploy checklist to see the list of PRs included in this release, then work quickly to do one of the following:

1. Identify the pull request that introduced this issue and revert it.
2. Find someone who can quickly fix the issue.
3. Fix the issue yourself.

[vincdargento]

@laurenreidexpensify FYI I haven't added the External label as I wasn't 100% sure about this issue. Please take a look and add the label if you agree it's a bug and can be handled by external contributors.

[srikarparsi]

Adding the external label

[melvin-bot]

Job added to Upwork: https://www.upwork.com/jobs/~021882867353031260828

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to Contributor-plus team member for initial proposal review - @Pujan92 (External)

[Pujan92]

I am not able to reproduce, @vincdargento can you plz retest and confirm

[mountiny]

I cannot reproduce either and its a minor issue

[laurenreidexpensify]

Waiting for @vincdargento to retest

[vincdargento]

@laurenreidexpensify Tester can reproduce when the search result list is scrollable, not reproducible when search result list is not scrollable

20250128_121627.mp4

[yuwenmemon]

Removing the blocker label for this one, as it's quite minor and shouldn't hold up the deploy.

[melvin-bot]

@Pujan92, @srikarparsi, @laurenreidexpensify Uh oh! This issue is overdue by 2 days. Don't forget to update your issues!

[melvin-bot]

📣 It's been a week! Do we have any satisfactory proposals yet? Do we need to adjust the bounty for this issue? 💸

[laurenreidexpensify]

Let's wait for some more proposals to come in

[melvin-bot]

@Pujan92, @srikarparsi, @laurenreidexpensify Still overdue 6 days?! Let's take care of this!

[melvin-bot]

@Pujan92, @srikarparsi, @laurenreidexpensify 8 days overdue is a lot. Should this be a Weekly issue? If so, feel free to change it!

[laurenreidexpensify]

Still waiting on proposals here