headerBackButtonMenuEnabled: false doesn't work when headerBackButtonDisplayMode is 'minimal' on iOS

[ljukas]

Description

Original issue: react-navigation/react-navigation#12697

Current behavior

Hi,

I'm using @react-navigation/native-stack on iOS with these options:

screenOptions={{
headerBackButtonDisplayMode: 'minimal',
headerBackButtonMenuEnabled: false,
}}
The back button shows only the arrow, but if I long-press the back button, the stack menu still appears.

Expected behavior

I expect that setting headerBackButtonMenuEnabled: false should completely disable the long-press back button menu, regardless of the display mode. However, the menu still appears when I long-press the back button on iOS. Am I misunderstanding how this option is supposed to work, or could this be a bug?

Reproduction

ismkerem/RNnavigation

Platform

• Android
• iOS
• Web
• Windows[
• MacOS

Environment

Package Version
@react-navigation/native ^7.1.14
@react-navigation/bottom-tabs 7.4.2
@react-navigation/drawer ^7.5.3
@react-navigation/material-top-tabs ^7.3.2
@react-navigation/stack ^7.4.2
@react-navigation/native-stack ^7.3.21
react-native-drawer-layout ^4.1.12
react-native-tab-view ^4.1.2
react-native-screens ^4.13.1
react-native-safe-area-context ^5.5.2
react-native-gesture-handler ^2.27.2
react-native-reanimated ^4.0.0
react-native 0.80.1
expo —
node 23.9.0
npm or yarn 11.2.0

Steps to reproduce

All info is above

Snack or a link to a repository

Here

Screens version

See above

React Native version

See above

Platforms

iOS

JavaScript runtime

None

Workflow

None

Architecture

Fabric (New Architecture)

Build type

None

Device

None

Device model

No response

Acknowledgements

Yes

[github-actions]

Hey! 👋

The issue doesn't seem to contain a minimal reproduction.

Could you provide a snack or a link to a GitHub repository under your username that reproduces the problem?

[ljukas]

This is recreation of the original issue and there is a reproduction here: https://github.com/ismkerem/RNnavigation?rgh-link-date=2025-07-24T11%3A47%3A40.000Z

[kligarski]

Hi, @ljukas. Thank you for reporting the issue.

#3303 should fix the problem.

[ljukas]

Sounds great, thanks for anser! @kligarski Hopefully time is found to review that PR.

The user-story Im experiencing with this problem is that I set the title (via navigation.setOptions({title: "..." })) depending on the offset of scrollviews to trigger my title to animate with a custom headerTitle. I need to do this because custom headerTitles can not access the navigator them selves, or the screen params. (I get error that they cannot find a navigator)

But this leads me to unsetting the title for screens to hide the title and my menu looks like this:

[blue86321]

any update? seems like #3303 is too complicated to be reviewed.

[kligarski]

Hi, unfortunately no update yet but it's in our backlog.