[HOLD 35626][$500] Chat - User redirected to LHN instead of chat after going back from task

[lanitochka17]

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Version Number: 1.4.36
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: N
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail:
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers):
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: Applause - Internal Team
Slack conversation:

Action Performed:

1. Open the app and log in
2. Navigate to any chat
3. Tap "+" > "Assign task"
4. Create a task
5. Open the task from the chat history
6. Tap the back icon

Expected Result:

User is returned to the chat where the task was created

Actual Result:

User is redirected to LHN

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• Android: Native
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Native
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

Screenshots/Videos

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Bug6365163_1706897741164.video_2024-02-02_13-14-58.mp4

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Triggered auto assignment to @neil-marcellini (Engineering), see https://stackoverflowteams.com/c/expensify/questions/9980/ for more details.

[lanitochka17]

We think that this bug might be related to #vip-vsp
CC @quinthar

[neil-marcellini]

I would guess that this is related to [Wave 8] Ideal nav #33280, but I'll have to confirm. I doubt we want to revert that since it's such a large PR, so let's see if we can find the fix. Assigning external for additional help as I investigate.

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