Expense - Back button on Merchant page reopens Merchant page

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Version Number: 9.3.17-0
Reproducible in staging?: Yes
Reproducible in production?: N/A - new feature, doesn't exist in prod
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from BrowserStack: #81018
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): #80480
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team
Bug source: Exploratory - Significant User Experience Deterioration
Device used: Mac 26.2 / Chrome
App Component: Money Requests

Action Performed:

Precondition:

• Disable Submissions, Approvals and Payments in Workflows settings.

1. Go to staging.new.expensify.com
2. Open FAB > Create expense > Manual.
3. Click To field.
4. Select workspace chat.
5. Enter merchant > Save.
6. Click To field.
7. Select self DM.
8. Click Merchant > clear the merchant > Save.
9. Click To field.
10. Select workspace chat.
11. On Merchant page, click RHP back button.

Expected Result:

App will return to amount input page.

Actual Result:

Back button on Merchant page reopens Merchant page.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

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

Screenshots/Videos

Bug7074560_1770809313664.8.mp4

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[melvin-bot]

You have been assigned to this deploy blocker because you recently merged this PR: #81018

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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.

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