`refreshHistoricalLocation` does not refresh when triggered consecutively

[marcelobalexandre]

I believe I have found a bug related with the refreshHistoricalLocation.

I have a page where the user can click on an Add button to open a modal that when submitted will trigger a refresh_or_redirect_to in the Rails side, this works fine the first time the modal is submitted (it correctly closes the modal and refresh the main page), but if the user tries to open the modal again and submit a new form, the modal is closed but the main page displays an old version (the screenshot from the first time it was opened).

Recording of the bug:

Screen.Recording.2026-01-29.at.14.56.31.mov

Possible solution

If I change the Navigator.refreshVisitable (https://github.com/hotwired/hotwire-native-ios/blob/main/Source/Turbo/Navigator/Navigator.swift#L256) from .restore to .replace it works as I expected.

Recording of this "fix":

Screen.Recording.2026-01-29.at.14.57.54.mov

I don't have experience with iOS development, but if that's indeed a bug as I believe it is I can try to work on a PR to fix it. I would appreciate some guidance to understand if this is the right fix for the issue and what would be a good way to write tests to cover it.

[joemasilotti]

What happens the "third" time? I'm wondering if this is an issue related to a Cold Boot Visit on the modal Session for the first request.

[marcelobalexandre]

What happens the "third" time? I'm wondering if this is an issue related to a Cold Boot Visit on the modal Session for the first request.

TBH, I don't remember what happened the third time, I think it showed the correct page and not the stale screenshot.

I reseted it to the latest main again (so without the Navigator.refreshVisitable I mentioned in the PR) and I can't reproduce it anymore, I believe there was something with my Rails code that was causing the issue.

I will close it and if I encounter it again I will try to create a repo with minimal code to reproduce the issue.

Thank you for your time!