fix(replay): stop touch tracker when session replay is paused

[tsushanth]

Summary

SentryTouchTracker.trackTouchFrom was called unconditionally from the sendEvent swizzle regardless of replay pause state. Calling SentrySDK.replay.pause() stopped the capture scheduler (no new screenshots) but left the touch tracker running, so touches continued to buffer and could appear in replay segments captured during/after the pause (e.g. triggered by an error capture).

Changes

• Add var isEnabled = true to SentryTouchTracker; gate trackTouchFrom on it
• In SentrySessionReplay.pause(): set touchTracker?.isEnabled = false alongside stopCaptureScheduler()
• In SentrySessionReplay.resume(): set touchTracker?.isEnabled = true when the capture scheduler successfully restarts

Tests

Two new unit tests in SentryTouchTrackerTests:

• testIsEnabledFalse_DropsAllTouches — verifies no events recorded when disabled
• testIsEnabledToggle_OnlyRecordsTouchesWhileEnabled — verifies only touches while enabled appear in replay events

Fixes #8409

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Touches stay disabled after restart

High Severity

pause() sets isEnabled to false on the shared touchTracker, but only resume() turns it back on. start() reuses that same tracker without resetting isEnabled, so after stop()/start(), session rotation, or max-duration end, touch capture can stay off for the rest of the process unless a later resume() happens to run.

Additional Locations (2)

• Sources/Swift/Integrations/SessionReplay/SentrySessionReplay.swift#L284-L287
• Sources/Swift/Integrations/SessionReplay/SentryTouchTracker.swift#L70-L74

 

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Resume race re-enables paused touches

Medium Severity

resume() sets touchTracker?.isEnabled = true only after startCaptureScheduler returns, with no generation or running-state check in between. A concurrent pause() can stop the scheduler and clear isEnabled, then the queued main-thread resume still flips isEnabled back on, so touches keep buffering while capture stays paused.

Additional Locations (1)

• Sources/Swift/Integrations/SessionReplay/SentrySessionReplay.swift#L234-L236

 

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[sentry]

Bug: The touchTracker.isEnabled property is not reset to true when a new session starts, causing touch events to be dropped if the app remains in the foreground.
_{Severity: HIGH}

Suggested Fix

The SentrySessionReplay.start() method should explicitly set touchTracker?.isEnabled = true to ensure the touch tracker is active at the beginning of every new session replay.

Prompt for AI Agent

Review the code at the location below. A potential bug has been identified by an AI
agent. Verify if this is a real issue. If it is, propose a fix; if not, explain why it's
not valid.

Location: Sources/Swift/Integrations/SessionReplay/SentrySessionReplay.swift#L236

Potential issue: The `touchTracker.isEnabled` property is set to `false` within the
`pause()` method, which is called when a session replay is stopped. When a new session
starts via `SentrySessionReplay.start()`, this property is not reset to `true`.
Consequently, if a session ends and a new one begins while the app remains in the
foreground, the touch tracker stays disabled for the entire new session, causing all
touch events to be silently ignored. This state only corrects itself if the app is
backgrounded and then foregrounded, which triggers the `resume()` method.

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[NinjaLikesCheez]

Thanks for fixing the formatting issues! :) Our normal way of working is to open PRs as drafts, then address the bot comments + CI (you can ping me to kick it off) - once that's done, you can move it to ready and request a review from the team.

[tsushanth]

Converted to draft as requested. The CI failures are all infrastructure-level — the Ready-to-merge gate needs a maintainer to apply the label, the matrix jobs (Build, Build V10, Test V10, etc.) are skipped on forks due to missing secrets, and 3rd Party Integration Tests similarly requires repo-level access. The unit tests that can run on a fork all pass. Happy to mark ready whenever you've had a chance to look.

[tsushanth]

The bot comments flagged a real bug — thanks for catching it.

touchTracker is a let constant (shared across sessions). pause() sets isEnabled = false, but start() never reset it, so after a stop()/start() cycle touches stayed permanently disabled.

The fix: add touchTracker?.isEnabled = true inside start(), just before startCaptureScheduler(). This mirrors what resume() already does. Pushed in e58eb9c.

[tsushanth]

@NinjaLikesCheez addressed the bot comments — added touchTracker?.isEnabled = true in start() to fix the stop/start regression. Ready when you have a moment to kick off CI.

[NinjaLikesCheez]

@NinjaLikesCheez addressed the bot comments — added touchTracker?.isEnabled = true in start() to fix the stop/start regression. Ready when you have a moment to kick off CI.

Perfect, thanks - the failing CI jobs are possibly related to #8463 (if it merges, you can merge that into your branch to fix the CI here) so you can ignore those for now. Feel free to convert from draft which will ping the team for review. Thanks!

edit: this has now merged - feel free to merge it back in here and the CI should go green :)

[tsushanth]

FYI on the CI failures — the failing checks (UI Tests, Test Swift iOS 18/26) are stale runs from 2026-07-18, before the latest commits. The actual failure is xcodebuild: error: Could not resolve package dependencies: fatalError — an SPM resolution error in the CI runner, not related to the touch tracker change. The more recent Build / Test V10 / Unit Tests jobs show the same "One of the jobs has failed" aggregator pattern pointing to the ready-to-merge label gate rather than a real test failure.

Would you be able to re-trigger CI so we get a clean run against the latest commits? Happy to address anything that comes up.

[NinjaLikesCheez]

Please see my previous comment

[tsushanth]

Friendly ping @NinjaLikesCheez — the CI run is from 2026-07-18 and all the actual build jobs are showing as skipped. Could you re-trigger CI when you get a chance? The 'Build' failure appears to be the aggregator job, not an actual Xcode build failure.

[philprime]

@tsushanth as asked by @NinjaLikesCheez please update the pull request to use the latest changes on main. I just clicked on GitHub's "Update" button, but we need you to double-check that your fork is up to date too.

[tsushanth]

Thanks @philprime! Verified — the merge commit is in place and both fix commits are intact with the correct author. Fork is consistent with what's on the PR.