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Fix Focus Outline for Programmatical focus - #16373

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Description

When a component receives programmatic focus (via autoFocus or ref.focus()) during app startup, the focus outline/rectangle is displayed. This should not happen — programmatic focus should not trigger the focus visual, only keyboard-initiated focus should.

The same component focused programmatically at any other time (e.g., triggered by a button press) correctly does not show the focus outline. The issue is isolated to the initial app start focus.

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Should this change be included in the release notes: yes

Fix Focus Outline for Programmatical focus

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* Remove Focus Outline for Programmatical Focus

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Pull request overview

Fixes Fabric focus visuals appearing during startup-time programmatic focus.

Changes:

  • Treats programmatic focus as pointer focus unless preserving keyboard focus.
  • Adds a patch changelog entry.

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Copilot reviewed 2 out of 2 changed files in this pull request and generated 1 comment.

File Description
vnext/Microsoft.ReactNative/Fabric/Composition/RootComponentView.cpp Corrects programmatic focus-state selection.
change/react-native-windows-85a3d26d-f9c2-4888-9e32-a6a3f9f4a2b9.json Adds release-note metadata.

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"type": "patch",
"comment": "Remove Focus Outline for Programmatical Focus",
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Focus outline/visual incorrectly shown when element receives focus programmatically on app start

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