Large Header Title misaligned when using react-navigation/drawer

[Relax594]

Description

First of all, I am not 100% sure if this is an issue with this repo or react-navigation but as it's related to native-stack, I am opening it here.

When using react-navigation/drawer to navigate to a screen that has headerLargeTitleEnabled: true, the large title is misaligned with the left header button. When navigating without a drawer, it works fine.

This also seems to only affect iOS 26.x as it works fine with iOS 18.
Tested on real device as well as simulator.

import 'react-native-gesture-handler';
import React from 'react';
import { View, Text, Button, ScrollView } from 'react-native';
import { NavigationContainer } from '@react-navigation/native';
import { createDrawerNavigator } from '@react-navigation/drawer';
import { createNativeStackNavigator } from '@react-navigation/native-stack';
import { GestureHandlerRootView } from 'react-native-gesture-handler';
import { SafeAreaProvider } from 'react-native-safe-area-context';

const Drawer = createDrawerNavigator();

const HomeStack = createNativeStackNavigator();
const LargeStack = createNativeStackNavigator();

function ButtonScreen({ navigation }) {
    return (
        <View style={{ flex: 1, alignItems: 'center', justifyContent: 'center' }}>
            <Text>Open the drawer to navigate to large title screen</Text>
        </View>
    );
}

function ScrollScreen() {
    return (
        <ScrollView contentContainerStyle={{ padding: 16 }} contentInsetAdjustmentBehavior='automatic'>
            <Text style={{ fontSize: 22, marginBottom: 12 }}>Large Title (ScrollView)</Text>
            {Array.from({ length: 30 }).map((_, i) => (
                <Text key={i} style={{ marginBottom: 8 }}>
                    {`Entry ${i + 1} — Example content for scrolling.`}
                </Text>
            ))}
        </ScrollView>
    );
}

function HomeStackScreen() {
    return (
        <HomeStack.Navigator>
            <HomeStack.Screen
                name="Button"
                component={ButtonScreen}
                options={({ navigation }) => ({
                    title: 'Button',
                    headerLeft: () => (
                        <Button title="Menu" onPress={() => navigation.getParent()?.openDrawer()} />
                    ),
                })}
            />
        </HomeStack.Navigator>
    );
}

function LargeStackScreen() {
    return (
        <LargeStack.Navigator>
            <LargeStack.Screen
                name="Scroll"
                component={ScrollScreen}
                options={({ navigation }) => ({
                    title: 'Scroll',
                    headerLargeTitle: true,
                    headerLeft: () => (
                        <Button title="Menu" onPress={() => navigation.getParent()?.openDrawer()} />
                    ),
                })}
            />
        </LargeStack.Navigator>
    );
}

export default function App() {
    return (
        <GestureHandlerRootView style={{ flex: 1 }}>
            <SafeAreaProvider>
                <NavigationContainer>
                    <Drawer.Navigator initialRouteName="Home" screenOptions={{ headerShown: false }}>
                        <Drawer.Screen name="Home" component={HomeStackScreen} />
                        <Drawer.Screen name="LargeTitle" component={LargeStackScreen} options={{ title: 'Large Title' }} />
                    </Drawer.Navigator>
                </NavigationContainer>
            </SafeAreaProvider>
        </GestureHandlerRootView>
    );
}

iOS 18:

iOS 26:

Steps to reproduce

1. open drawer menu
2. navigate to "Large Title"

Snack or a link to a repository

don't have expo account and it only supports iOS 18, so doesn't show the error

Screens version

4.21.0

React Native version

0.81.5

Platforms

iOS

JavaScript runtime

None

Workflow

None

Architecture

Paper (Old Architecture)

Build type

None

Device

None

Device model

No response

Acknowledgements

Yes

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[Relax594]

Hey! 👋

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Could you provide a snack or a link to a GitHub repository under your username that reproduces the problem?

Repro Code is provided.