Notifications : Tapping on the notification in the android opens the wrong conversation. #Android #Notifications

[rajany080]

Device: Android
iOS: Not tested

Description

When the app remains in the background (in the recent apps stack), tapping on a notification for a specific conversation opens the wrong chat or the default Channels page, instead of the conversation related to the notification.

This issue seems related to how the app restores its navigation state when resumed from background.

Steps to Reproduce

Open a conversation with Person A.

Press the Home button — the app goes to the background (remains in the recent apps list).

Receive a new message notification from Person B.

Tap on the notification to open the chat.

Expected Behavior

Tapping the notification for Person B should directly open the chat with Person B.

Actual Behavior

If the app is already in the background, tapping the notification opens the previous chat (Person A) instead of Person B.

If the app is closed completely, tapping the notification opens the default Channels screen instead of the chat.

Impact

Causes confusion — sometimes I end up sending messages to the wrong person, assuming the notification led to the correct chat.

When redirected to the default Channels page, it takes extra steps to manually switch to private chats and open the right conversation.

Possible Cause (Guess)

Might be related to improper activity stack management or intent handling when resuming from background.

Environment

App Version: 30.0.266

Android Version: 15

Device Model: Samsung A14 5g

Additional Notes

This isn’t a critical bug, but fixing it would significantly improve user experience and reduce the chances of miscommunication.

[gnprice]

Thanks for the report! I agree this is an annoying bug. Does it reliably behave this way for you, or only sometimes?

We've heard this report from a couple of other users, and I've seen it myself very occasionally — but the rest of the time it works correctly for me (and AFAICT for most users), and we haven't yet found a way to reproduce it. If you can help us narrow down what causes it to happen or not happen, then that would be a very helpful contribution toward fixing it.

For existing reports and discussion, see:

• Opening notification sometimes doesn't navigate, on Android #1567
• #mobile > notification link doesn't navigate as expected

If you'd like to join us in that thread in the #mobile channel, that'd be the ideal venue for further debugging, and I'd love to hear more details.

[gnprice]

Rereading, this part is a match for the existing issue #1567:

If the app is closed completely, tapping the notification opens the default Channels screen instead of the chat.

But this other part is new:

If the app is already in the background, tapping the notification opens the previous chat (Person A) instead of Person B.

So @rajany080 I'd be especially interested in hearing more so we can try to reproduce that situation and debug what's happening.

(BTW, there are a lot of words in your issue report, in a way that looks potentially like you might have passed it through ChatGPT or another LLM. If that is what you did, then in the future I'd suggest posting instead whatever you gave the LLM as input. That will be shorter for us to read; and if it's less polished in some way, that's perfectly fine. With this version, because there were so many extra words that don't really say very much, I ended up missing the actual most interesting part the first time I read it.)