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PR Checklist

• The PR title follows the contribution guidelines.
• There is an issue for this bug: [iOS 26] Inset Frame cannot start native content Back with default navigation #11589.
• CLA signing previously declared by this contributor in fix(android/application): open windows after the original activity finishes #11552.
• The full Core unit target and reported native checks pass; scope is listed below.
• Regression tests are included.

What is the current behavior?

Default Frame navigation always installs a delegate exposing the optional custom animation callback. On iPadOS 26, that prevents native content-pop input beside an inset navigation area, even when the callback returns nil. A plain UIKit control at the same inset accepts the gesture; exposing only that callback reproduces the failure. Full-width screen-edge Back still works with Core's existing gesture policy.

What is the new behavior?

Use a delegate with only didShow for navigation without a configured animated transition. Keep the existing animation/interaction callbacks on a separate NSObject delegate for configured transitions. Store the selected delegate on each Page's controller so the existing Page lifecycle restores it after Back. Both delegates share the unchanged didShow bookkeeping; no gesture delegate or recognition rule is replaced.

Clear stale transition metadata when a reused Page is navigated with default animation, and release both shared delegate references when the last Frame is disposed. No public API or declaration changes are required. Android uses fragment transitions and has no corresponding UIKit delegate path.

Fixes #11589.

Validation

• Four regressions fail on the original implementation; all six new unit cases pass with the correction.
• Full npx nx run core:test --skip-nx-cache: 571 passed, 1 skipped, 45 files passed.
• Core build and Nx formatting passed.
• Real iPad Pro 11-inch M4 simulators: iPadOS 26.0 inset content now pops by gesture; full-width controls pass on 18.6 and 26.0. The iPadOS 18.6 inset screen-edge limitation remains unchanged.
• On both OS versions, the new apps/automated regression ran in an isolated consumer using the same test/helper execution bodies. It verifies the native selector surface and restoration across default → fade → default → Back → Back. The complete iOS apps/automated app suite was not run.
• Native input on both OS versions verified an actual UIKit-reported cancellation with the typed draft and Page identity retained, five committed native returns, and restored delegates after fade, slide, a custom transition instance and a shared transition. Both instrumented transition instances received push and pop callbacks; final native/logical history returned to Root.
• The original drawer rotation probe on iPadOS 26 now exercises 10 cases, 0 gestures not reproduced. Landscape-to-portrait Back both commits and cancels under real input while retaining the expected identities/history. UIKit deferred rotation for those swipes; one programmatic Back recorded same-coordinator overlap. This is not a universal overlap guarantee.

The native consumer uses Core 9.1.3 with only this PR's built ui/frame/index.ios.js substituted, iOS runtime 9.1.0 and Xcode 27.0. No other unpublished Core patch is used. Physical iPad, Stage Manager and newer OS versions were not tested.

Native validation sources, commands, hashes and logs. The published baseline and standalone UIKit isolation remain available in vue-router-ns #170.

CI status (2026-10-30, head c5f591a, after merging current main): the unit-test step, Android native job, dependency review and preview publication passed. The current iOS job is stuck in Start iOS Simulator (started 02:33 UTC); the native iOS test step has not started. The same simulator workflow passed for #11587 in the adjacent run. The contributor cannot cancel the stuck upstream run (GitHub returned HTTP 403); a maintainer restart is requested. The earlier run failed simulator selection before native tests. The local iPad validation above remains separate from hosted native acceptance.

Video

Actual iPadOS 26 simulator recording with the correction: editing a draft, cancelling content Back, committing Back, then navigating through fade, slide, a custom instance and a shared transition. The content stays inset 280 points; returning from each default page restores the custom delegate before the next Back.