statusTap event not working on iOS 13

[biesbjerg]

Bug Report

Capacitor Version

npx cap doctor output:

💊   Capacitor Doctor  💊

Latest Dependencies:

  @capacitor/cli: 1.3.0

  @capacitor/core: 1.3.0

  @capacitor/android: 1.3.0

  @capacitor/ios: 1.3.0

Installed Dependencies:

  @capacitor/cli 1.3.0

  @capacitor/core 1.3.0

  @capacitor/android 1.3.0

  @capacitor/ios 1.3.0


[success] Android looking great! 👌
  Found 4 Capacitor plugins for ios:
    @biesbjerg/capacitor-music-player (0.0.1)
    @teamhive/capacitor-email (2.1.2)
    capacitor-analytics (0.0.4)
    cordova-plugin-inapppurchase (1.2.0)
[success] iOS looking great! 👌

Affected Platform(s)

• Android
• iOS
• Electron
• Web

Current Behavior

When tapping on status bar ion-content does not scroll to top

Expected Behavior

Scroll to top on tap

[jcesarmobile]

This is only on iOS 13, right?

[andreas-aeschlimann]

I have seen this issue on iOS 13.0 and 13.1 (iPhone XS Max, iPhone 11 Pro Max) so far.

On Android and iOS 12.x (iPhone X) it worked as expected.

[jcesarmobile]

The problem is statusTap event not working on iOS 13. Ionic uses that event to scroll the internal content.

On a non Ionic app with content bigger than the screen, if you tap the status bar it will still scroll to top as expected.

[andreas-aeschlimann]

What do you suggest as workaround until it is fixed?

Does the Cordova plugin have the same issue in iOS 13?

[bryplano]

The Cordova approach adds a scrollview off screen that forwards in the touch/tap event. It's a hacky solution that causes other problems.

There isn't a great workaround until Apple makes changes to better support or fix statusTap in iOS.

[jcesarmobile]

I've found another possible solution, but it's also hacky.

We can swizzle handleTapAction on UIStatusBarManager class. (meaning, it removes the handleTapAction method and add a custom one that can send the event to javascript).

So either way, the two possible options are hacky, not sure which one is better.

[Proper-Job]

The reason the statusTap event isn't called is because touchesBegan is no longer called on the AppDelegate on iOS 13.
iOS 13 introduced a new way to manage the App's Life Cycle with UISceneDelegate.

[andreas-aeschlimann]

This works for me now, thanks a lot for fixing it!

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