IOU-Report field shows owes amount briefly before updating to IOU

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Version Number: V9 28-1
Reproducible in staging?: Yes
Reproducible in production?: N/A - new feature, doesn't exist in prod
If this was caught on HybridApp, is this reproducible on New Expensify Standalone?: No, reproducible on hybrid only
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): [email protected]
Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team
Device used: Redminote 10s android 13
App Component: Money Requests

Action Performed:

1. Launch app
2. Tap fab - create expense
3. Enter an amount & tap next
4. Select user with no previous conversation
5. Tap create expense
6. Immediately open the expense created and note the report field

Expected Result:

Report field must not show owes amount briefly before updating to to IOU.

Actual Result:

Report field shows owes amount briefly before updating to to IOU.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

• Android: Standalone
• Android: HybridApp
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Standalone
• iOS: HybridApp
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

Screenshots/Videos

Bug6802325_1744688469934.Screenrecorder-2025-04-15-09-05-08-811.mp4

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @waterim

[melvin-bot]

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

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @alexpensify (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details. Please add this bug to a GH project, as outlined in the SO.

[melvin-bot]

💬 A slack conversation has been started in #expensify-open-source

[github-actions]

👋 Friendly reminder that deploy blockers are time-sensitive ⏱ issues! Check out the open `StagingDeployCash` deploy checklist to see the list of PRs included in this release, then work quickly to do one of the following:

1. Identify the pull request that introduced this issue and revert it.
2. Find someone who can quickly fix the issue.
3. Fix the issue yourself.

[MariaHCD]

Could this be related to #58597?

cc: @luacmartins @waterim @rayane-d

[rayane-d]

Discussing in https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C01GTK53T8Q/p1744712146580769

[luacmartins]

We'll put this button behind a beta and tackle the issue as a follow up.

[luacmartins]

No longer available in staging. Demoting.

[melvin-bot]

@waterim Huh... This is 4 days overdue. Who can take care of this?

[melvin-bot]

@waterim Still overdue 6 days?! Let's take care of this!

[luacmartins]

This is fixed in staging. Closing.