🐛 Bug: Video Playback Progress Bar Is Not Seekable (iOS & Android)

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Issue

🔥 Video playback progress bar is not seekable (iOS & Android)

The video player inside the chat displays a playback progress bar, but it is not interactive.

Although the progress line visually updates as the video plays, users are unable to:

• Tap on the progress bar to jump to a specific timestamp
• Drag a seek thumb/indicator to scrub forward or backward

The playback line appears functional but does not respond to any touch gestures. As a result, users cannot manually control the playback position.

This issue occurs consistently on both iOS and Android.

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Steps to reproduce

1. Open the app.
2. Navigate to a channel containing a video message.
3. Play the video.
4. Attempt to tap or drag along the playback progress bar.
5. Observe that the video does not seek to the selected position.

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Expected behavior

The playback progress bar should:

• Allow tapping on a specific position to jump to that timestamp.
• Allow dragging a seek thumb/indicator to scrub forward or backward.
• Provide standard interactive seek functionality similar to native video players.

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Project Related Information

Customization

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We are using the default video message component provided by stream-chat-react-native without implementing custom seek logic.

# Using default Message / Video components from stream-chat-react-native
# No custom video controls implemented

Offline support

• I have enabled offline support.
• The feature I'm having does not occur when offline support is disabled.

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Environment

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package.json:

# N/A

react-native info output:

OUTPUT GOES HERE

• Platform that you're experiencing the issue on:

  • iOS
  • Android
  • iOS but have not tested behavior on Android
  • Android but have not tested behavior on iOS
  • Both

• stream-chat-react-native version you're using that has this issue:

  • 5.x.x (please specify exact version)

• Device/Emulator info:

  • I am using a physical device
  • OS version: iOS xx / Android xx
  • Device/Emulator: iPhone xx / Android device model

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Additional context

• Issue is reproducible 100% of the time.
• No crashes occur.
• The progress bar visually updates but does not respond to user interaction.
• This impacts user experience, as users cannot rewatch specific parts of a video without replaying it entirely.

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Screenshots

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