[HOLD for #61550][$250] Expense - After creating expense in report with unread message, report view scrolls down

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Version Number: 9.2.9-0
Reproducible in staging?: Yes
Reproducible in production?: No
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: #67752
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): sdjoisnjosidnjsd@gmail.com
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team
Device used: Mac 15.5 / Chrome
App Component: Money Requests

Action Performed:

1. Go to staging.new.expensify.com
2. Go to workspace chat.
3. Create two expenses in the workspace chat.
4. Open the expense report.
5. Send 20 messages (so that the report is scrollable).
6. Mark the 20th message as unread.
7. Scroll to the top.
8. Click + > Create expense > Manual.
9. Create another expense.

Expected Result:

After creating expense, the report view should not scroll down.

Actual Result:

After creating expense, the report view scrolls down. Part of the table view is not seen.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

• Android: App
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: App
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• iOS: mWeb Chrome
• Windows: Chrome
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

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[melvin-bot]

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

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[dominictb]

@dmkt9 Can you take a look?

[dmkt9]

Hi @dominictb, I'm unavailable at the moment due to personal matters. I'll take it a look first thing tomorrow.