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Typing with the iPhone keyboard visible could repeatedly resize the terminal grid, corrupt rows, or leave the viewport blank. The moving surface was supplying its own changing safe-area inset to the grid calculation. Prefer the stationary window inset, then the captured outer inset, so keyboard presentation cannot change terminal capacity.

Validation: the new regression test reproduces the observed 34pt/9pt inset sequence and 706pt/731pt container alternation before the fix. All 22 focused geometry tests pass after the fix, including four moving-surface cases. The test and fix are separate commits.

Visual acceptance completed on iPhone 17 Pro Max Simulator (iOS 26.5), paired Mac/iOS tag t10s, source 4908bc8b606. Ten real Codex prompts produced ten responses, with 30 full-viewport screenshots (before, after submission, settled) and 616.91 seconds of continuous video. All 30 stills and 14 transition contact sheets were inspected. No misplaced cursor, malformed terminal rows, blank viewport or repeated vertical oscillation was observed. All 13 recorded geometry updates stayed at 72x60; a 150-frame final idle window had 0 px input-band movement. Physical iPhone was not tested.

Evidence is retained on the verification machine under cmux-assets/feat-ios-terminal-wrap-stability/ten-prompts/index.html, with exact timestamps, executable hashes, transcript, native stack sample and failure artifacts. One visibility detail remains documented: prompt 5's model-status footer appears beneath the translucent accessory toolbar while its six input rows and cursor remain visible.

Apple guidance: Layout, respecting system safe areas while adapting content. No deliberate HIG deviation or user-facing string changes.


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Changes iOS terminal layout math for bottom safe-area reservation; wrong precedence could mis-seat the toolbar/grid under the home indicator, but behavior is covered by new unit tests.

Overview
Stops the terminal grid from chasing the sliding surface’s local safe-area inset during keyboard presentation, which was resizing/reflowing rows and feeding back into layout (row-count oscillation).

TerminalLetterboxGeometry.resolvedBottomSafeAreaInset now prefers the window inset, then the captured outer inset, and only uses the moving view’s safeAreaInsets.bottom as a last resort before ancestor fallbacks. GhosttySurfaceView comments are aligned with that contract.

Adds regression coverage that grid container height stays fixed when the surface reports varying local insets but outer sources still report the home-indicator inset.

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Stops the iOS terminal from oscillating when a long typed line wraps. Two feedback loops caused vertical movement and cursor/row misalignment: each display-linked blank-band measurement retargeted a 0.2-second layout animation on the content cap, and the surface's own safe-area inset changing during keyboard motion resized the terminal grid. Sampled keyboard absorption changes now apply immediately, and grid insets resolve from the stationary outer layout, so a moving surface's local inset can't reflow the terminal. Keyboard show/hide seat transitions keep their animation.

  • Adds regression tests covering immediate keyboard absorption measurements and stable safe-area insets during surface movement.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved terminal layout stability when the keyboard appears or moves content.
    • Corrected bottom safe-area handling to preserve the terminal container’s height and prevent unwanted resizing.
    • Added reliable fallback behavior for safe-area insets, including zero-inset scenarios, helping toolbar and terminal spacing remain consistent across different window and view configurations.

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The bottom safe-area resolver now prefers the window inset, then the captured outer inset, and uses the moving view inset as a fallback. Documentation and tests cover matching, fallback, zero-inset, and keyboard-movement behavior.

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Safe-area resolution

Layer / File(s) Summary
Resolver precedence and regression coverage
Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileTerminalKit/Sources/CmuxMobileTerminalKit/TerminalLetterboxGeometry.swift, Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileTerminal/Sources/CmuxMobileTerminal/GhosttySurfaceView.swift, Packages/iOS/CmuxMobileTerminalKit/Tests/CmuxMobileTerminalKitTests/TerminalLetterboxGeometryTests.swift
The resolver prioritizes window and captured outer insets over the moving view inset. Documentation explains the precedence. Tests cover inset fallbacks and stable terminal geometry during keyboard movement.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related PRs

  • manaflow-ai/cmux#11962: Introduced the captured outer safe-area inset and resolver fallback inputs used by this change.

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 4908b

Keyboard transitions can still destabilize terminal dimensions in a reachable fallback state, so the inset resolution should be corrected before merge.

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Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ✅ Passed The pull request does not introduce or materially worsen any listed Swift actor-isolation mistake. The production diff changes only the precedence inside the existing pure `TerminalLetterboxGeometry.r…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ✅ Passed PASS. The authoritative PR diff changes only safe-area documentation/resolution in two production Swift files and adds deterministic geometry assertions in one test file. No semaphore, blocking wait, …
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only three iOS terminal geometry/documentation/test files. The authoritative diff contains no changes to Sources/TerminalController.swift or `Packages/macOS/CmuxContro…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load ✅ Passed PASS: The reviewed range changes only GhosttySurfaceView.swift, TerminalLetterboxGeometry.swift, and geometry tests. Production changes update safe-area resolution and documentation; they add no a…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed PASS — The diff changes safe-area resolution for transient keyboard and viewport layout. It prefers the live window inset, then uses the captured outer inset, local view inset, and ancestor values as …
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ✅ Passed PASS. The authoritative PR diff changes only three Swift files. The custom check applies to TypeScript, JavaScript, shell, and non-Swift build/runtime scripts. The diff introduces no covered runtime d…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ✅ Passed PASS: The production diff only reorders scalar inset checks so window and captured values short-circuit before the local view fallback. It adds no scalable-collection scan, nested scan, sort, join, or…
Cmux Swift Concurrency ✅ Passed PASS. The reviewed range changes only safe-area resolution documentation/precedence and geometry tests. No new DispatchQueue, background queue, DispatchGroup, Combine state, completion-handler API…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent ✅ Passed PASS: The reviewed range changes only synchronous safe-area geometry logic, documentation, and synchronous tests. TerminalLetterboxGeometry.resolvedBottomSafeAreaInset remains a synchronous pure hel…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries ✅ Passed PASS. The diff changes TerminalLetterboxGeometry.resolvedBottomSafeAreaInset inside the existing CmuxMobileTerminalKit SwiftPM target, which already has a public library target and focused test ta…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles ✅ Passed PASS: The authoritative pull-request diff contains only three Swift source/test files: GhosttySurfaceView.swift, TerminalLetterboxGeometry.swift, and TerminalLetterboxGeometryTests.swift. It cha…
Cmux Swift Logging ✅ Passed PASS. The reviewed Swift diff adds no print, debugPrint, dump, NSLog, file/stdout logging, Logger, or MobileDebugLog statements. The production changes update documentation and safe-area p…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy ✅ Passed The pull request changes only safe-area geometry logic, developer documentation, and regression tests. The authoritative diff adds no user-facing errors, alerts, command output, API error bodies, or r…
Cmux Full Internationalization ✅ Passed PASS. The reviewed diff changes only safe-area geometry logic, developer-facing Swift documentation, and regression tests. It adds no user-facing Swift text, localization key, string catalog, Info.pli…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout ✅ Passed PASS. The pull request changes only a UIKit GhosttySurfaceView, pure TerminalLetterboxGeometry math, and geometry tests. The diff adds no SwiftUI view, ObservableObject, @Published, `GeometryR…
Cmux Architecture Rethink ✅ Passed PASS. The pull request changes only safe-area resolution, documentation, and geometry tests. It adds no sleeps, delayed dispatch, polling, locks, observers, flags, caches, side channels, duplicate wir…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only GhosttySurfaceView safe-area handling, TerminalLetterboxGeometry, and geometry tests. The authoritative diff adds or modifies no NSWindow, NSPanel, `NSWindo…
Cmux Source Artifacts ✅ Passed The pull request changes only three tracked, text-based Swift source/test files under Sources and Tests. The diff contains hand-written safe-area logic, documentation, and regression tests. No log…
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source ✅ Passed PASS. The authoritative diff changes only documentation and the precedence inside TerminalLetterboxGeometry.resolvedBottomSafeAreaInset in production Sources/ files. It adds no #if DEBUG test-ob…
Cmux No Ambient Global State ✅ Passed PASS. The authoritative diff changes only safe-area documentation, the existing TerminalLetterboxGeometry.resolvedBottomSafeAreaInset branch order, and tests. It adds no production top-level functio…
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- Around line 129-131: Update resolvedBottomSafeAreaInset to remove the
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