(native-tab-navigator/experimental) - weird/unwanted bottom navigator animation on back when using deeplinks

[spasmodiumspam-web]

Current behavior

Repository provided.

I have a Root Stack navigator that contains:

• a Tab navigator (3 tabs), and
• a Details screen at the same stack level.

When I navigate manually from Tab 3 to Details, everything works as expected.
Pressing back returns to Tab 3 with normal animation for the screen (so no specific animation for the tab navigator itself).

good_back.mp4

However, when I open Details via deep link, pressing back (which should return to Tab 3) shows an unexpected/weird back animation.

unwanted_back_animation_at_deeplink.mp4

Use command

adb shell am start -W -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d "buggednav://tab3/details" com.buggednav

Notice the weird/unwanted animation on the tab navigator.

This doesn't happen with the JS/non-native tab navigator in my tests.

Expected: same back behavior/animation as manual navigation (Tab 3 -> Details -> back to Tab 3).
Actual: back transition animation is visually incorrect only in the deep-link flow.

Expected behavior

No weird animation should appear, basically it should behave like we'd just go normally back from details to 3rd tab.

Reproduction

https://github.com/spasmodiumspam-web/react-navigation-native-tabs-deeplink-reset-repro

Platform

• Android
• iOS
• Web
• Windows
• MacOS

Packages

• @react-navigation/bottom-tabs
• @react-navigation/drawer
• @react-navigation/material-top-tabs
• @react-navigation/stack
• @react-navigation/native-stack
• react-native-drawer-layout
• react-native-tab-view

Environment

• I've removed the packages that I don't use

package	version
@react-navigation/native	7.1.33
@react-navigation/bottom-tabs	7.15.5
@react-navigation/native-stack	7.14.4
react-native-screens	4.24.0
react-native-safe-area-context	5.7.0
react-native-gesture-handler	2.30.0
react-native	0.84.1
node	>= 22.11.0 (project engine)
npm or yarn	npm

[github-actions]

Hey! Thanks for opening the issue. Seems that this issue is related to react-native-screens library which is a dependency of React Navigation. Can you also post your issue in this repo so that it's notified to the maintainers of that library? This will help us fix the issue faster since it's upto the maintainers of that library to investigate it.

[spasmodiumspam-web]

Hey! Thanks for opening the issue. Seems that this issue is related to react-native-screens library which is a dependency of React Navigation. Can you also post your issue in this repo so that it's notified to the maintainers of that library? This will help us fix the issue faster since it's upto the maintainers of that library to investigate it.

Posted there too a few seconds ago.

software-mansion/react-native-screens#3747