MSMessagesAppViewController - no interactions in compact view

Since a recent update, it appears how MSMessagesAppViewController detects user interactions has changed.

  • While in compact 'mode' no user interactions appear to register and this prevents the suite of send message methods being used.
  • When in the expanded view everything works normally and message related methods work normally.
  • Going from the expanded view to the compact view gives a grace period when message related methods still work; after this grace period, we're back to not being able to perform interactions

The error relating to the apparent lack of user interactions:

(Error Domain=com.apple.messages.messagesapp-error Code=9 "(null)")

Is there something I need to do to configure things in such a way where user interactions are registered when in the compact view or this is a bug?

Please see below an image describing the steps to go through to recreate the issue:

After exploring device versions, this appears to be a bug introduced in iOS 16. When the device is on 15.x, the compact view behaves as expected.

I've raised a bug for the issue.

MSMessagesAppViewController - no interactions in compact view
 
 
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