[iOS][Fabric] Runtime Dynamic Type change leaves stale text layout: lines overflow and clip, onTextLayout reports stale widths (0.86)

[v-metricsadmin]

Description

On iOS with the New Architecture, when the user changes the Dynamic Type size while the app is running, already-rendered <Text> keeps its stale line breaks and box heights while glyphs draw at the new scale. Lines run past the right edge of the screen and are clipped mid-glyph. onTextLayout continues to report the stale (fitting) line widths, so the app cannot even detect the overflow programmatically. Killing and relaunching the app at the same Dynamic Type size renders the identical tree correctly.

This looks like the same stale-cached-text-measurement mechanism as #45857 (fixed via #45978) and is adjacent to #45655 (no re-render on font scale change), but it still reproduces on 0.86.0.

Observations:

• Plain <View>/<Text> trees reproduce it — no third-party code involved (main branch of the reproducer).
• The with-reanimated branch (same screen with the cards wrapped in react-native-reanimated Animated.Views, mirroring the production layout where this was first observed) reproduces identically. In production this also manifested as some text "freezing" at the pre-change font scale while other text scaled — i.e. mixed text sizes on one screen.
• Android is unaffected.
• Fresh mounts after a cold start are always correct; the defect only appears when the content size category changes during the app's lifetime.
• Originally observed in production on RN 0.83 (Expo SDK 55) as paragraphs of rich text drawing past the right viewport edge whenever Dynamic Type was above default; no combination of flexShrink, explicit width, two-pass mount after onLayout, or removing onPress/accessibilityRole from nested spans avoided it.

Steps to reproduce

1. npm install && npx expo run:ios --configuration Release (reproducer repo below)
2. Launch on an iOS simulator at the default text size — everything renders correctly (banner shows fontScale 1.000 · 0 overflowing).
3. While the app is running: xcrun simctl ui booted content_size extra-extra-large
4. Observe: paragraphs draw past the right content edge (marked by a red hairline) with stale line breaks; the two cards clip their text; the banner still claims 0 overflowing because onTextLayout returns stale line widths.
5. Kill and relaunch the app — the identical tree renders correctly at fontScale 1.235.

React Native Version

0.86.0

Affected Platforms

Runtime - iOS

Areas

Fabric - The New Renderer

Output of npx @react-native-community/cli info

System:
  OS: macOS 26.3.1
  CPU: (8) arm64 Apple M1
  Memory: 355.03 MB / 16.00 GB
  Shell:
    version: "5.9"
    path: /bin/zsh
Binaries:
  Node:
    version: 22.20.0
    path: /usr/local/bin/node
  Yarn: Not Found
  npm:
    version: 10.9.3
    path: /usr/local/bin/npm
  Watchman: Not Found
Managers:
  CocoaPods:
    version: 1.16.2
    path: /opt/homebrew/bin/pod
SDKs:
  iOS SDK:
    Platforms:
      - DriverKit 25.5
      - iOS 26.5
      - macOS 26.5
      - tvOS 26.5
      - visionOS 26.5
      - watchOS 26.5
IDEs:
  Xcode:
    version: 26.6/17F113
npmPackages:
  react: 19.2.0
  react-native: 0.86.0
Metro: bundled (Release build, no dev server)

Stacktrace or Logs

No crash — layout-only defect. The measurement API returns false negatives:
after the runtime Dynamic Type change, text visibly overflows the container,
yet onTextLayout still reports every line as fitting inside the Yoga box
("0 overflowing" in the reproducer's banner), because the reported line
widths are the pre-change values.

Reproducer

https://github.com/v-metricsadmin/rn-ios-dynamic-type-stale-text-layout

Screenshots and Videos

Fresh launch @ default (correct)	Runtime change to XXL (broken)	Relaunch @ XXL (correct)

Same defect on the with-reanimated branch (production-fidelity variant) — cards stop wrapping and clip after the runtime change: