From 38312b74733e5ca212893413978e8e685b7d496b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Ceriu <stefan.ceriu@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2026 13:46:20 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Fix the search tab's layout now that its built against os27

---
 .../Navigation/NavigationTabCoordinator.swift            | 1 +
 ElementX/Sources/Other/SwiftUI/Backports.swift           | 9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ElementX/Sources/Application/Navigation/NavigationTabCoordinator.swift b/ElementX/Sources/Application/Navigation/NavigationTabCoordinator.swift
index 30e00fa71..8519dd1b6 100644
--- a/ElementX/Sources/Application/Navigation/NavigationTabCoordinator.swift
+++ b/ElementX/Sources/Application/Navigation/NavigationTabCoordinator.swift
@@ -409,6 +409,7 @@ private struct NavigationTabCoordinatorView<Tag: Hashable>: View {
             }
         }
         .backportTabBarMinimizeBehaviorOnScrollDown()
+        .backportTabViewSearchActivationOnSearchTabSelection()
         .introspect(.tabView, on: .supportedVersions, customize: configureAppearance)
     }
     
diff --git a/ElementX/Sources/Other/SwiftUI/Backports.swift b/ElementX/Sources/Other/SwiftUI/Backports.swift
index 15c913947..8493a18d2 100644
--- a/ElementX/Sources/Other/SwiftUI/Backports.swift
+++ b/ElementX/Sources/Other/SwiftUI/Backports.swift
@@ -20,6 +20,15 @@ extension View {
         }
     }
     
+    /// iOS 27 only detaches the search tab and docks its field at the bottom when selecting the tab activates search.
+    @ViewBuilder func backportTabViewSearchActivationOnSearchTabSelection() -> some View {
+        if #available(iOS 27.0, *) {
+            tabViewSearchActivation(.searchTabSelection)
+        } else {
+            self
+        }
+    }
+    
     @ViewBuilder
     func backportSafeAreaBar(edge: VerticalEdge,
                              alignment: HorizontalAlignment = .center,