Visual bug: ‘You disabled disappearing messages’ text appears cut off after message expiration

[ExtRIELICi]

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• [x] I am submitting a bug report for existing functionality that does not work as intended
• [x] This isn't a feature request or a discussion topic

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Bug description

If you open a chat, enable disappearing messages for 30 seconds, send a message, and then disable disappearing messages, a visual bug occurs once the sent message disappears. The “You disabled disappearing messages” text appears cut in half. Even if you or other participants send new messages, the text remains cut off. The issue is only resolved after exiting and reopening the chat.

Steps to reproduce

• Open Signal.
• Open a conversation.
• Enable disappearing messages for any duration (preferably 5–30 seconds for your convenience, just to confirm the bug).
• Send a message.
• Immediately disable disappearing messages.
• Return to the chat.
• Wait for the sent message to disappear.
• The “You disabled disappearing messages” text will appear cut in half.

Actual result: The “You disabled disappearing messages” text appears cut in half, which is a visual bug.

Expected result: The “You disabled disappearing messages” text should appear normally.

Screenshots

Device info

Device: iPhone 15 Pro Max

iOS version: 18.3

Signal version: 7.45.1 (606)

Link to debug log

https://debuglogs.org/ios/7.45.1/3f433ad2b3fe0cdb3077ae4ce778dc45f128ae567c1e5a4836bd2b6b25bde219.zip

[MarlowBrown]

Hey there!

I'm a contributor to Signal iOS and I took on figuring out what was causing this bug. I've made a fix for it found here!.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/67d1199c-dd92-4ae2-ae88-5290c0cad0bf

Thank you for reporting the bug! 👍

[ExtRIELICi]

Thank you very much for your time and effort! People like you make open source software fun and great! @MarlowBrown

[MarlowBrown]

It's no problem! I'm very happy to help! If you or any of your friends encounter any bugs in the future make sure to open up an issue and I'll take a look at it!

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This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.

[ExtRIELICi]

This is not stale

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This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.

[ExtRIELICi]

Not stale