Expense - Wrong expense preview avatar names when submitting expense as copilot

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Version Number: 9.1.70-0
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: N
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: #64446
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): applausetester+200602kh@applause.expensifail.com
Issue reported by: Applause - Internal Team

Action Performed:

Precondition:

• User B has added User A as copilot
• Do the following steps as User A

1. Go to staging.new.expensify.com
2. Go to Account
3. Open account switcher
4. Select User B
5. Open 1:1 DM with any user
6. Submit an expense to the user

Expected Result:

The expense preview avatar names will show "User B & receiver

Actual Result:

The expense preview avatar names show "User A & User B"

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

Select the officially supported platforms where the issue was reproduced:

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

Platforms Tested:

On which of our officially supported platforms was this issue tested:

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

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Bug6865559_1750433591652.20250620_233132.mp4

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[melvin-bot]

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

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[AndrewGable]

cc @grgia @JS00001 Any ideas on this one?

[grgia]

Demoting this, but leaving open and assigning to look into it more