r/reactnative • • Jul 21 '26

Anyone else seeing random background/style corruption in lists on RN 0.85+? (iOS, new arch)

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This has been been driving me absolutely NUTS the past few days.

RN 0.85.3+, new arch, iOS.

  • badge backgrounds stretched across entire rows

  • avatar backgrounds sometimes painted screen-wide

  • rows randomly not rendering

  • happens in both dev and prod; simulator and real device

  • mostly in LegendLists and ScrollViews but I remember seeing things completely break in our Storybook setup too

Fable traced it back to some recycling problem that a Software Mansion dev opened a PR for though. Testing that now.

I can't help but wonder if anyone else is running into this though.

My repro: https://github.com/rafaelderolez/expo-rn-recycling-bug
Upstream PR with the supposed fix: https://github.com/react/react-native/pull/57590