Touchable onPress not working with 3D Touch when 'position: absolute'

[benadamstyles]

Description

I'm trying to consolidate the various issues around this into one place so it can finally be tackled. The related issues I have found are:

#3082 *
#10822
#10386

The issue is that Touchable*#onPress doesn't work on iOS devices with 3D Touch, if any pressure is applied, when the component wrapped by the Touchable* has position: 'absolute'. I think this has to do with touchmove events (or equivalent) being triggered by 3D Touch (possibly in the z direction?). A quick fix is to wrap your Touchable* in a View, giving this outer view position: 'absolute', and removing position: 'absolute' from the View inside your Touchable*.

There is a related problem about the same incorrect behaviour applying to Touchables within a ScrollView (see * above) but this involves PanResponder and becomes much more complicated. I have a feeling (totally unfounded) that fixing this bug might go some (or all the) way towards fixing that bug.

Reproduction Steps and Sample Code

// onPress never called if 3D Touch is present and any pressure is applied
<TouchableOpacity onPress={() => {}}>
  <View style={{position: 'absolute'}}>
    <Text>Press me</Text>
  </View>
</TouchableOpacity>

Solution

I think this is a bug and requires either:

• Clear documentation telling the dev user that the first child of a Touchable* should not have position: 'absolute' (but the parent can)
• Or a react-native fix

Additional Information

• React Native version: 0.43.0
• Platform: iOS (3D Touch enabled devices)
• Development Operating System: macOS

[linoleum00]

In my case, the View inside the TouchableOpacity doesn't have the position absolute style, but if you press gently enough, it does work, but if you press normally then it doesn't work.

I have seen some post in which the solution is to use onPressIn instead, and it does the trick but when you have a bunch of touchables inside a scroll view, then you can't scroll because the onPressIn is called immediately after touched

[benadamstyles]

I have seen some post in which the solution is to use onPressIn instead, and it does the trick

@linoleum00 Another related reason why this solution is unsatisfactory is that if you use onPressIn, the user can't cancel their tap by moving their finger away, which is a fundamental aspect of touch interaction.

[hramos]

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[benadamstyles]

This is still an issue, and I have reproduced it on React Native v0.47. All the information required is in my original post above. Lack of activity !== resolution!

[IgorVanian]

This is a big issue still in RN49. Actually this looks like a solution but I guess it would be better to implement that inside RN itself.

[JLLLinn]

Still an issue in 0.51

[deepaksasken]

Yes, its still an issue in 0.51 :(

[batmaster]

react-native: 0.51.0 still not work

[raimens]

it worked for me
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36938742/touchablehighlight-not-clickable-if-position-absolute

[philvasseur]

still not working in 0.53.3, no other solutions seem to work for me.

[ashishbista]

This is still an issue.

[kingr]

Issue still exist.

[carmenchapa]

Still an issue.

[ghost]

issue still exists on RN 0.55.4, none of the solutions mentioned in other threads are working when TouchableOpactity is rendered inside of position: 'absolute' View.

[cpojer]

We noticed that very few people actually use 3D Touch so we recently removed a bunch of features related to it, so I'm going to close this as wontfix.