[No QA] Bump react-native-localize

[mateuuszzzzz]

Explanation of Change

We use old version of react-native-localize which uses deprecated onCatalystInstanceDestroy which is not even called in our app. It causes memory leak of BroadcastReceiver on Android.

Fixed Issues

$ #63979
PROPOSAL:

MOBILE-EXPENSIFY: https://github.com/Expensify/Mobile-Expensify/pull/13738

Tests

Only thing that can be broken by this PR is getDevicePreferredLocale which uses findBestLanguageTag from react-native-localize.

• Change system locale and restart the app to check if picking preferred language works

NOTE: NVP_PREFERRED_LOCALE Onyx key might override the system locale, so make sure this isn’t happening when the locale doesn’t change after updating it in the system settings.

Offline tests

QA Steps

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Android: mWeb Chrome

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[brunovjk]

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Android: HybridApp

72447_android_native.mov

Android: mWeb Chrome

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iOS: HybridApp

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iOS: mWeb Safari

72447_ios_web.mov

MacOS: Chrome / Safari

72447_web_chrome.mov

MacOS: Desktop

72447_web_desktop.mov

[mjasikowski]

@brunovjk was this tested already? I see the reviewer checklist completed but no approval

[brunovjk]

I tested it, but @mjasikowski, do we need to wait for these two PRs 13737 and 13738 to merge to actually test it? Thanks.

[mateuuszzzzz]

I tested it, but @mjasikowski, do we need to wait for these two PRs 13737 and 13738 to merge to actually test it? Thanks.

Hi, we don't need to wait for other PRs to test it locally. Regarding merging order, we should merge https://github.com/Expensify/Mobile-Expensify/pull/13737 first and then remaining PRs

[brunovjk]

Great! Reviewing now

[brunovjk]

@mateuuszzzzz, if I uninstall the app from my iOS emulator, change my device's preferred language to Spanish, and then build the app again, I see this screen:

And after logging in, the app remains in English:

Screen.Recording.2025-10-16.at.08.52.50.mov

Do you think this is related to our PR? Thanks.

[mjasikowski]

FYI https://github.com/Expensify/Mobile-Expensify/pull/13737 and https://github.com/Expensify/Mobile-Expensify/pull/13738 are merged now

[mateuuszzzzz]

@mateuuszzzzz, if I uninstall the app from my iOS emulator, change my device's preferred language to Spanish, and then build the app again, I see this screen:

And after logging in, the app remains in English:

Screen.Recording.2025-10-16.at.08.52.50.mov
Do you think this is related to our PR? Thanks.

Yes and no. This is known issue that happened before and AFAIK is related to usage of Onyx.connect for functions used by UI part of the app. Nevertheless, we cannot exclude my PR from potential list of changes to blame.

@brunovjk could you check what is return value of getDevicePreferredLocale on main and on this PR on your device? If this yields different values on my PR then we probably have some regression caused by this bump.

[mateuuszzzzz]

@mjasikowski I'm afraid we need to revert https://github.com/Expensify/Mobile-Expensify/pull/13738 ideally Podfile.lock update in Mobile-Expensify should be aligned with update of Podfile.lock in App.

Let's wait for outcome of @brunovjk tests

[mjasikowski]

@brunovjk what's the status here?

[brunovjk]

@brunovjk what's the status here?

I'm finishing up another PR, I'll be back in a moment. Sorry for the delay.

[brunovjk]

I can reproduce the bug on the latest main, sorry for the inconvenience @mateuuszzzzz:

I'm finishing testing, but it seems our PR is fine.

@mjasikowski I'm afraid we need to revert Expensify/Mobile-Expensify#13738 ideally Podfile.lock update in Mobile-Expensify should be aligned with update of Podfile.lock in App.

I didn't quite understand.

[mateuuszzzzz]

I didn't quite understand.

Usually, when we have a PR that updates the Podfile.lock in this repo, we should merge it at the same time as the corresponding PR in Mobile-Expensify (since they each have their own Podfile.lock). If they get out of sync, developers will see diff every time they run npm run pod-install, which can be inconvenient, especially for others who are also working on updating the Podfile.lock.

[mateuuszzzzz]

I'll resolve the conflicts and prepare the PR for merging. This time, there might not be any additional actions needed in Mobile-Expensify, but I'll double-check just to be sure.

[mateuuszzzzz]

Ready, and no changes on Mobile-Expensify side are needed

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✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.

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[brunovjk]

Great! Thanks so much for clarifying. I'll continue with the checklist.

[brunovjk]

LGTM

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