Reloading page takes you to "create expense" page

[IuliiaHerets]

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Version Number: v9.1.51-0
Reproducible in staging?: Yes
Reproducible in production?: Unable to check, new feature
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: #60997
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): dave0123seife@gmail.com
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team
Device used: Mac 14.5/ Chrome
App Component: Other

Action Performed:

1. Navigate to https://staging.new.expensify.com
2. Create a new public account
3. Choose anything but "Manage my team's expenses" to reach the test drive modal
4. Enter a valid email on the email field and click on "Start test Drive"
5. After being directs to the expense submission page
6. Reload page

Expected Result:

Page stays in test drive expense creation page

Actual Result:

After reloading, user is redirected to "Create Expense" page

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

• Android: App
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: App
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• iOS: mWeb Chrome
• Windows: Chrome
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

Screenshots/Videos

Bug6841073_1748078807261.Screen_Recording_2025-05-24_at_12.14.08_in_the_afternoon.mp4

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @sonialiap (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details. Please add this bug to a GH project, as outlined in the SO.

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @danieldoglas (DeployBlockerCash), see https://stackoverflowteams.com/c/expensify/questions/9980/ for more details.

[melvin-bot]

💬 A slack conversation has been started in #expensify-open-source

[github-actions]

👋 Friendly reminder that deploy blockers are time-sensitive ⏱ issues! Check out the open `StagingDeployCash` deploy checklist to see the list of PRs included in this release, then work quickly to do one of the following:

1. Identify the pull request that introduced this issue and revert it.
2. Find someone who can quickly fix the issue.
3. Fix the issue yourself.

[BlameGPT]

Possible culprit PRs for this issue

• [Test Drive Expensify: Phase 2] Front end changes #60997: This PR implements changes to the Test Drive feature, ensuring the flow from onboarding to the expense submission page behaves as expected, which directly relates to the reported issue of being redirected after a page reload.

[fabioh8010]

Hey 👋 Fábio from Callstack - expert agency - I will look into this one. cc @marcaaron