[HOLD for payment 2024-03-20] [HOLD for payment 2024-03-19] Chat - Deleted parent message appears on main chat composer as unsent

[lanitochka17]

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Version Number: 1.4.50-2
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: N
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: N/A
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): gocemate+balto813@gmail.com
Issue reported by: Applause - Internal Team

Action Performed:

1. Go to any chat
2. Send message
3. Hover over the message and select Reply in thread
4. Add a reply
5. Delete the parent message from thread page
6. Click on header to navigate to main chat
7. Send another message
8. Hover over the message and select Reply in thread
9. Add a reply
10. Delete the parent message from thread page
11. Click on header to navigate to main chat

Expected Result:

Deleted message should not re-appear on the main chat page

Actual Result:

Deleted parent message re-appears on main chat composer as unsent

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• Android: Native
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Native
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

Screenshots/Videos

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @deetergp (Engineering), see https://stackoverflowteams.com/c/expensify/questions/9980/ for more details.

[lanitochka17]

We think that this bug might be related to #vip-vsp
CC @quinthar

[lanitochka17]

@deetergp FYI I haven't added the External label as I wasn't 100% sure about this issue. Please take a look and add the label if you agree it's a bug and can be handled by external contributors

[deetergp]

I'm not able to reproduce either locally nor in staging

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