[Bug]: Sortable activates while scrolling on iOS 26

[LukasFridmansky]

Description

Hello, first of all, thank you for this amazing library. Unfortunately, we encountered two issues while integrating it into our project. I will raise the other one separately.

On iOS 26, the sortable component often gets activated unintentionally while scrolling through content. This makes it difficult to scroll normally, as sortable starts even though the gesture was only meant for scrolling.

• The issue does not occur on Android.
• The issue does not occur on iOS versions < 26.
• The issue occurs whenever scrolling, not only when auto-scroll is triggered.

Note:
I’ve listed the versions of libraries we use in our project below, but the issue is also reproducible in the example app included in this repository, which uses the latest versions.

Steps to reproduce

You can reproduce the issue using the example app included in this repository.

1. Run the example app on an iOS 26 simulator or device using the Beta version of Xcode.

   • I tested this on the Fabric example app, but in our project we are using the old architecture. The problem seems to affect both.

2. Open a sortable component that uses a ScrollView (I tested with Sortable Grid, but I suspect it also affects Sortable Flex).

3. Attempt to scroll through the content.

4. Notice that the sortable is activated instead of smooth scrolling and it is not deactivated even though the gesture was released.

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Code snippet, Snack or GitHub repository link

The example app from this repository

React Native Sortables version

1.8.0

Reanimated version

3.19.0

React Native Gesture Handler version

2.27.2

React Native version

0.79.5

Platforms

iOS

Architecture

None

Workflow

None

Device

No response

Acknowledgements

Yes

[MatiPl01]

Hey @LukasFridmansky!

Thanks for reporting the issue. Since the issue seems to be related only to the beta version of iOS 26, I think that I will hold with fixing this issue until the stable version of iOS 26 is released. This problem would be most likely caused to gesture detection changes and I suspect that it would have to be fixed in the react-native-gesture-handler library as I don't do anything fancy here with the gesture recognition so the issue is likely not caused by how I handle gestures.

Alternatively, if this is a high priority issue for you, I may try to spend some time on debugging during the next weekend as I didn't manage to find time for that yet.

[LukasFridmansky]

Hey, thank you so much for your answer. New iOS version should by publicly released very soon, so the issue will affect many users since soon a lot of iOS users will update to the latest version. We will really appreciate if you can have a look on the issue as soon as possible. Thank you very very much for your time.

[MatiPl01]

I released a fix in 1.9.1. Please let me know if the issue is resolved once you bump the library.

[LukasFridmansky]

Amazing! Thank you very much, works great.