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Focusing on a text input when navigating to a new screen only works when adding to the stack, not when going back.

See original GitHub issue

Current Behavior

Calling .focus() on a text input (or using autoFocus) when the screen becomes focused works when you add a screen to the stack (Screen A -> Screen B) but not when going back (Screen B -> Screen A). Instead, the input is focused for a second then blurs immediately.

cannot focus

Expected Behavior

The input should stay focused

How to reproduce

Navigate back to a screen that has a text input with autoFocus on true
OR call .focus() on the reference of the text input when the screen is focused
OR copy-paste the following code:

import { NavigationContainer } from "@react-navigation/native";
import { createStackNavigator } from "@react-navigation/stack";
import * as React from "react";
import { TextInput, View, Button, Text } from "react-native";

function ScreenA({ navigation }) {
	const textInputRef = React.useRef();

	const focusOnInput = e => {
		textInputRef.current.focus();
	};

	navigation.addListener("focus", focusOnInput);
	return (
		<View>
			<Text>SCREEN A</Text>
			<TextInput ref={textInputRef} />
			<Button title="Go to screen B" onPress={() => navigation.navigate("ScreenB")} />
		</View>
	);
}

function ScreenB({ navigation }) {
	const textInputRef = React.useRef();

	const focusOnInput = e => {
		textInputRef.current.focus();
	};

	navigation.addListener("focus", focusOnInput);

	return (
		<View>
			<Text>SCREEN B</Text>
			<TextInput ref={textInputRef} />
			<Button title="Go to screen A" onPress={() => navigation.navigate("ScreenA")} />
		</View>
	);
}

const Stack = createStackNavigator();

function TestComp() {
	return (
		<NavigationContainer>
			<Stack.Navigator>
				<Stack.Screen component={ScreenA} name="ScreenA" />
				<Stack.Screen component={ScreenB} name="ScreenB" />
			</Stack.Navigator>
		</NavigationContainer>
	);
}

export default TestComp;

Your Environment

    "@expo/vector-icons": "^10.0.0",
    "@react-native-community/masked-view": "0.1.6",
    "@react-navigation/bottom-tabs": "^5.2.5",
    "@react-navigation/material-bottom-tabs": "^5.1.7",
    "@react-navigation/native": "^5.1.4",
    "@react-navigation/stack": "^5.2.9",
    "@react-navigation/web": "^1.0.0-alpha.9",
    "@reduxjs/toolkit": "^1.2.5",
    "expo": "^37.0.0",
    "expo-asset": "~8.1.3",
    "expo-constants": "~9.0.0",
    "expo-font": "~8.1.0",
    "expo-web-browser": "~8.1.0",
    "moment": "^2.24.0",
    "react": "16.9.0",
    "react-dom": "16.9.0",
    "react-native": "https://github.com/expo/react-native/archive/sdk-37.0.0.tar.gz",
    "react-native-gesture-handler": "~1.6.0",
    "react-native-paper": "^3.6.0",
    "react-native-remote-svg": "^2.0.6",
    "react-native-safe-area-context": "0.7.3",
    "react-native-screens": "~2.2.0",
    "react-native-svg": "11.0.1",
    "react-native-web": "^0.11.7",
    "react-native-webview": "8.1.1",
    "react-redux": "^7.1.3",
    "redux": "^4.0.5",
    "tinycolor2": "^1.4.1"