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Follow-up to #1305 (#1304). On iOS WebKit, #1305 stopped deferring size corrections while a scrollToIndex is in flight, because reconcileScroll retargets from fresh measurements. That leaves a gap: if the index scroll ends before reconcile writes the moved target, the resize is lost and the anchored row shifts by its size. Three exits do that:

  • a user gesture (the scroll handler's hasReachedTarget interrupt branch)
  • cancelScroll()
  • the 5s reconcile safety valve
 scroll handler (hasReachedTarget, offset moved away)
-  scrollState = null
+  dropScrollState()
 reconcileScroll safety valve
-  scrollState = null
+  dropScrollState()
 cancelScroll
-  scrollState = null
+  dropScrollState()

+dropScrollState()
+  if iOS && index scroll && align === 'start'
+     && lanes === 1 && scrollPaddingStart === 0 && default adjust predicate
+     && viewport is on the last written target
+    _iosDeferredAdjustment += freshTarget - lastTargetOffset
+  scrollState = null

The guard is deliberately narrow. Target drift equals "growth above the viewport" only when the viewport's top sits on a start-aligned target. It is skipped:

  • mid-travel (e.g. cancelling a smooth scroll): rows between the viewport and the target move the target but not the viewport.
  • end / center / toEnd: a row growing inside the viewport also moves the target.
  • lanes > 1: rows in other lanes can span the viewport top, and a resize can move the target to another lane.
  • scrollPaddingStart: the padding shows rows above the target row, so their growth moves the target too.
  • custom shouldAdjustScrollPositionOnItemSizeChange: the consumer may have opted out of the compensation the drift would add back.

In all skipped cases behaviour stays as in #1305 (no compensation).

applyScrollAdjustment and the flush are unchanged, so prepend anchor deltas behave as on main.

Evidence

New tests in iOS deferral: (100 rows × 50px, 200px viewport, hand-driven rAF and scroll events):

Test main this PR
gesture interrupts after an unreconciled resize ❌ row 20 at +150 (expected +100) ✅
cancelScroll after an unreconciled resize ❌ 1000 (expected 1050) ✅
safety valve after an unreconciled resize ❌ 1000 (expected 1050) ✅
gesture after reconcile already absorbed the resize ✅ ✅
scroll up: resize below the target, against the stale offset ✅ ✅
cancel mid smooth scroll ✅ ✅
gesture leaving a landed scrollToEnd ✅ ✅
gesture leaving an align: 'end' index scroll ✅ ✅
prepend during an index scroll keeps the visible row ✅ ✅
gesture keeps a deferred prepend ✅ ✅
gesture with scrollPaddingStart, visible row grows ✅ ✅
gesture with a custom adjust predicate opting out ✅ ✅
gesture with lanes: 2, target changes lane ✅ ✅

Also probed and safe: gap, paddingStart, scrollMargin, horizontal, initialMeasurementsCache, duplicate keys.

Mutation check on the final code: every hunk is caught by at least one test (drift → 0, sign flip, no getMeasurements(), no align / lanes / padding / predicate / at-target guard, each call site reverted to scrollState = null). The one survivor, += → =, is equivalent: a pending prepend delta always shifts the tracked offset (#1176), so the at-target guard is false whenever something is already deferred.

Merge Danger

Door: two-way. It's a single private helper and easy to revert.

Blast Radius: iOS-only. Non-iOS skips the helper's body (isIOSWebKit()), and on iOS only start-aligned index scrolls that end without landing are affected.

Out of scope, tracked in #1307: replacing the accumulated _iosDeferredAdjustment with an anchor-based correction, plus related pre-existing edge cases.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved iOS scrolling stability when a gesture interrupts a scroll to an item. Size changes that were deferred during the scroll are now handled correctly when scrolling is interrupted, canceled, or times out, helping prevent unexpected shifts in visible content.
    • Preserved the visible row when items are prepended during a scroll.

…lToIndex ends before it lands

TanStack#1305 stopped deferring iOS size corrections during an index scroll, since
reconcileScroll retargets from fresh measurements. If a gesture,
cancelScroll() or the reconcile safety valve ends the scroll before the
next retarget write, a resize that moved the target is lost.

dropScrollState() now handles those exits: for a start-aligned index
scroll whose viewport sits on the last written target, it adds the
target's drift to the deferred adjustment. Mid-travel and end/center/toEnd
states are left alone, because their drift also reflects rows below the
viewport's top.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The virtualizer routes external movement, the reconciliation timeout, and cancelScroll through dropScrollState. For eligible iOS index scrolls, this method defers target movement before clearing the state. Tests cover interruption, cancellation, timeout, adjustment eligibility, and prepend anchoring.

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iOS scroll correction handling

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Preserve adjustments when scroll state ends
packages/virtual-core/src/index.ts, packages/virtual-core/tests/index.test.ts, .changeset/ios-index-scroll-interrupt-deferral.md
dropScrollState conditionally defers target movement before clearing scroll state. External movement, the reconciliation timeout, and cancelScroll use this method. Tests cover interruption, cancellation, timeout, adjustment eligibility, and prepend anchoring. The changeset describes the patch.

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Change: Bug fix

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On iOS, a user gesture during an index scroll can cause a later scroll jump from a correction that no longer applies. Two further edge cases remain: a clamped end-of-list target, and a cancel or timeout that leaves a correction pending. These should be resolved or explicitly accepted before merge.

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Review comments at @packages/virtual-core/src/index.ts:
- Line 973: Update dropScrollState and its call site to pass the incoming
gesture offset into the compensation decision, so size changes below the new
viewport position are not deferred and later applied to the user's viewport.
- Around line 1227-1231: Update the deferred adjustment logic near
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… a custom adjust predicate

With scrollPaddingStart, rows above a start-aligned target are visible, so
their growth moves the target without being owed to the viewport. A custom
shouldAdjustScrollPositionOnItemSizeChange may opt out of compensation
that the target drift would add back. Leave both to the no-compensation
behaviour of TanStack#1305.

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With lanes > 1, rows in other lanes can span the fold and a resize can
move the target to another lane, so its drift no longer matches the
growth resizeItem would have compensated (e.g. drift 30 where 50 was
owed). Keep TanStack#1305's no-compensation behaviour there.

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🟡 Minor · Flush eligible drift when cancellation ends an idle scroll. · index.ts:2167

packages/virtual-core/src/index.ts:2167
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Flush eligible drift when cancellation ends an idle scroll.

If an index scroll has landed and isScrolling is already false, a resize can move its target before cancelScroll() runs. dropScrollState() records the drift, but cancellation leaves no frame or scroll callback to call _flushIosDeferredIfReady(). The correction remains pending until a later event. The safety-timeout exit at Line 1249 has the same idle path. After clearing the state, attempt the existing guarded flush so it still waits during touch or momentum.

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After `cancelScroll()` clears scroll state with `dropScrollState()`, invoke the
existing guarded `_flushIosDeferredIfReady()` so eligible drift is corrected
when scrolling is already idle; apply the same change to the safety-timeout
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- Around line 1218-1219: Update the drift-compensation check near the
last-written scroll target to defer drift only when that target is an unclamped
start position; exclude clamped targets produced by scrollToIndex with start
alignment. Keep resizeItem compensation unchanged for rows it selects.

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- Line 2167: After `cancelScroll()` clears scroll state with
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// target are the rows above the viewport, and the target's drift is exactly
// what resizeItem's default predicate would have compensated. Anywhere else

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Exclude clamped start targets from drift compensation.

Near the end of the list, scrollToIndex(99, { align: 'start' }) can land at the maximum scroll offset rather than item 99's start. If the visible last row grows, the maximum offset and the recomputed target both increase. Line 1218 treats that drift as an above-viewport correction, so a later flush moves the viewport even though resizeItem did not select that row for compensation. Require the last written target to be an unclamped start position before deferring its drift.

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Update the drift-compensation check near the last-written scroll target to defer
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Closing in favour of #1307. Each review of this PR found another layout where "target drift since the last write" diverges from "growth above the viewport" (align end/center, scrollPaddingStart, custom adjust predicate, lanes, a start target clamped at the end), so the fix kept growing guards around an approximation. #1307 replaces the accumulated delta with an anchor-based correction that computes the owed offset directly. The iOS deferral: tests from this PR move to #1307 as its acceptance criteria. Thanks to the reviewers for the findings.

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