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On iOS 26, scrolling the browser or chat surface minimizes the whole navigation bar into a floating "…" pill: back button, workspace title, and the trailing controls all end up inside it (screenshots in the internal dogfood thread). The terminal surface never shows this because it has no system scroll view for UIKit to discover, so the ask is to make every surface match the terminal.

There is no public opt-out in the 26 SDKs (toolbarMinimizeBehavior(.never) is iOS 27 SwiftUI; UIKit 26 only has tabBarMinimizeBehavior). The bar's scroll linkage is controllable though: UIViewController.setContentScrollView(_:for:) (iOS 15+) selects which scroll view drives bar scroll effects, overriding automatic discovery of the web view. A background probe view finds the pushed screen's view controller (the child of the navigation controller) via the responder chain and points its top-edge content scroll view at a retained, never-scrolling stand-in, re-asserting after layout passes and navigation re-parenting. The bar then stays expanded on 26.0+. On iOS 27 the native .toolbarMinimizeBehavior(.never, for: .navigationBar) is applied as well, gated behind #if compiler(>=6.4) like the existing visibilityPriority branch.

Applied to the workspace-detail screen (terminal, browser, chat, and stream modes share its toolbar). Other scrollable screens (notification feed, changes sheets) can adopt the same modifier if dogfood shows the pill there too.

No user-facing strings changed (localization audit: none needed). No practical unit test for UIKit runtime bar behavior; verified on an isolated simulator by scrolling the browser surface (evidence in thread).


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Pins the workspace-detail navigation bar on iOS so it stays fully expanded over scrollable browser/chat surfaces, and aligns browser-style titles with the terminal. Previously on iOS 26 the bar collapsed into a floating "…" pill and browser/stream views showed only the page/device title; now the bar remains expanded and the workspace name is the title with the page/device as subtitle.

  • Adds SwiftUI modifier mobilePinnedNavigationBar() that uses UIViewController.setContentScrollView(_:for:) to decouple the bar from content via a retained, non-scrolling stand‑in; re-applies after layout and navigation re-parenting.
  • Applies the modifier to WorkspaceDetailView (terminal, browser, chat, and stream).
  • On iOS 27+, also sets .toolbarMinimizeBehavior(.never, for: .navigationBar) behind #if compiler(>=6.4).
  • Standardizes browser, browser-stream, and simulator-stream titles to .standard(title: workspace, subtitle: page/device); removes the unused browser label token and updates tests.
  • No change to content scrolling or strings; verified manually on iOS 26.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented the navigation bar from minimizing while scrolling in workspace browser and chat views.
    • Improved navigation-bar behavior across supported iOS versions.
  • UI Improvements

    • Updated browser, browser streaming, and simulator streaming navigation titles to show the workspace name with the active surface as a subtitle.

Also folded in per dogfood: the browser, browser-stream, and simulator-stream surfaces now use the same two-line title pill as the terminal, workspace name on top with the page/tab/device title as the subtitle, instead of showing the page title alone; the single-line browser label token is removed as dead code.

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Workspace detail views now keep the mobile navigation bar expanded. Browser, browser-stream, and simulator-stream toolbar labels use the workspace name and active surface name.

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Mobile navigation bar and workspace labels

Layer / File(s) Summary
Modifier and UIKit probe configuration
Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShellUI/Sources/CmuxMobileShellUI/MobilePinnedNavigationBar.swift
The modifier applies platform-specific navigation-bar settings. The UIKit probe associates a disabled static scroll view with the owning navigation controller.
Workspace detail navigation and labels
Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShellUI/Sources/CmuxMobileShellUI/WorkspaceDetailView.swift, Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShellUI/Tests/CmuxMobileShellUITests/WorkspaceTitleMenuValueTests.swift
WorkspaceDetailView applies the modifier and uses workspace and active surface names in toolbar labels. The browser label fixture uses the standard label token with a GitHub subtitle.

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On iOS 26, the PR keeps the workspace-detail navigation bar expanded and standardizes titles, but a fallback path may target the wrong view controller during navigation changes. This could cause inconsistent bar behavior in affected flows and warrants explicit owner follow-up.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant WorkspaceDetailView
  participant mobilePinnedNavigationBar
  participant PinnedNavigationBarProbeView
  participant UINavigationController
  participant UIScrollView

  WorkspaceDetailView->>mobilePinnedNavigationBar: Apply modifier
  mobilePinnedNavigationBar->>PinnedNavigationBarProbeView: Install transparent probe
  PinnedNavigationBarProbeView->>UINavigationController: Locate owning controller
  PinnedNavigationBarProbeView->>UIScrollView: Create disabled static scroll view
  PinnedNavigationBarProbeView->>UINavigationController: Set top-edge content scroll view
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- Around line 89-101: Update barOwningViewController() to remove the nearest
fallback: return the controller only when its parent is a
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private func barOwningViewController() -> UIViewController? {
var responder: UIResponder? = next
var nearest: UIViewController?
while let current = responder {
if let viewController = current as? UIViewController {
nearest = nearest ?? viewController
if viewController.parent is UINavigationController {
return viewController
}
}
responder = current.next
}
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the nearest-controller fallback.

Line 101 can select a controller that is not the navigation bar owner. The probe then replaces that controller's top content scroll view while the intended navigation item remains unconfigured.

Return nil when no responder-chain controller has a UINavigationController parent. This fails safely instead of guessing ownership.

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     private func barOwningViewController() -> UIViewController? {
         var responder: UIResponder? = next
-        var nearest: UIViewController?
         while let current = responder {
             if let viewController = current as? UIViewController {
-                nearest = nearest ?? viewController
                 if viewController.parent is UINavigationController {
                     return viewController
                 }
             }
             responder = current.next
         }
-        return nearest
+        return nil
     }

As per path instructions, “Fail safely when no owning controller or window is available rather than guessing.”

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private func barOwningViewController() -> UIViewController? {
var responder: UIResponder? = next
var nearest: UIViewController?
while let current = responder {
if let viewController = current as? UIViewController {
nearest = nearest ?? viewController
if viewController.parent is UINavigationController {
return viewController
}
}
responder = current.next
}
return nearest
private func barOwningViewController() -> UIViewController? {
var responder: UIResponder? = next
while let current = responder {
if let viewController = current as? UIViewController {
if viewController.parent is UINavigationController {
return viewController
}
}
responder = current.next
}
return nil
}
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`@Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShellUI/Sources/CmuxMobileShellUI/MobilePinnedNavigationBar.swift`
around lines 89 - 101, Update barOwningViewController() to remove the nearest
fallback: return the controller only when its parent is a
UINavigationController, and return nil when no such responder-chain controller
exists.

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Pins the workspace-detail navigation bar while its browser or chat content scrolls and uses the native non-minimizing behavior on supported toolchains.

  • Adds a UIKit-backed, non-scrolling stand-in for navigation-bar scroll tracking.
  • Applies the behavior across workspace-detail surfaces.
  • Presents browser and simulator surface names as subtitles beneath the workspace name.

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Filename Overview
Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShellUI/Sources/CmuxMobileShellUI/MobilePinnedNavigationBar.swift Adds the UIKit bridge and iOS 27 native modifier that prevent workspace navigation-bar minimization.
Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShellUI/Sources/CmuxMobileShellUI/WorkspaceDetailView.swift Applies pinned navigation behavior and standardizes browser and simulator toolbar titles.
Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShellUI/Sources/CmuxMobileShellUI/WorkspaceTitleMenuLabelToken.swift Removes the browser-specific label representation in favor of the standard title-and-subtitle token.
Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileShellUI/Tests/CmuxMobileShellUITests/WorkspaceTitleMenuValueTests.swift Updates title-menu equality coverage for the standardized browser label token.

Sequence Diagram

sequenceDiagram
    participant Detail as WorkspaceDetailView
    participant Probe as PinnedNavigationBarProbeView
    participant VC as Navigation-owning UIViewController
    participant Anchor as Static UIScrollView
    Detail->>Probe: Install background representable
    Probe->>VC: Resolve through responder chain
    Probe->>VC: setContentScrollView(Anchor, for: .top)
    Note over Anchor,VC: Static scroll position keeps the navigation bar expanded
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iOS 26 minimizes the navigation bar into a floating overflow pill when
the content under it scrolls, so on the browser and chat surfaces the
back button, workspace title, and trailing controls all vanish behind a
single floating dots pill; the terminal never shows this because it has
no system scroll view for UIKit to discover. The SwiftUI opt-out
(toolbarMinimizeBehavior(.never)) does not exist in the iOS 26 SDK and
UIKit 26 only exposes a minimize control for the tab bar, but the bar's
scroll linkage is public since iOS 15: setContentScrollView(_:for:)
selects which scroll view drives bar effects. A probe view re-points the
pushed screen's top-edge content scroll view at a static never-scrolling
stand-in, decoupling the bar so it stays expanded like the terminal. On
iOS 27 the native opt-out is applied as well, gated on compiler(>=6.4)
like the existing visibilityPriority branch.

No practical unit test exists for this UIKit runtime behavior; verified
on an isolated simulator by scrolling the browser surface.

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The browser, browser-stream, and simulator-stream surfaces showed the
page or device title as the pill's only line, so the workspace identity
vanished from the bar. Use the same two-line standard label as the
terminal: workspace name on top, the surface's own title (page, tab, or
device) as the subtitle. The single-line browser label token is unused
after this and is removed.

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Superseded by the consolidated #10620 (per Aziz: one PR with all toolbar changes).

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