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This PR is another take on how to fix the occasional brief flash to the start of the signup process described in: #9331 - See that PR for a description of the issue.

It also integrates and fixes the failing tests from: #9363

The core fix here is to pull apart a single useEffect that was checking signIn.status for both null and other statuses, into two separate effects, and letting the null effect run only on mount.

If null happens after mount, the assumption is that it's not this components job to handle it. It's expected that:

  • Whoever started the process that consumed the signIn owns what happens next
    • Any setActive in signIn navigates on success
    • The caller of setActive handles any errors

If setActive is running when null happens on mount, we don't leave immediately. There are two cases:

  • The running setActive is part of this signIn attempt
  • The running setActive is unrelated to this signIn attempt, and does not navigate

To avoid an infinite loading state for the second case, we start a poll for __internal_setActiveInProgress (since it is not reactive). In scenario 1, that setActive will navigate, which unmounts the component and cancels the poller. In other scenarios where setActive is no longer running, and signIn.status is still null, we leave to the first page (or afterSignIn in some cases in FactorTwo) to avoid being stuck on loading.

The second effect that checks for specific statuses does not need to worry about setActive running or not, so the check was left out there. This effect is still reactive to signIn.status.

All of this was abstracted into a new hook useSignInStepGuard.


FactorOne and FactorTwo has slightly different behavior from before. FactorOne always redirects to the start, but FactorTwo can also redirect to the afterSignInUrl in case there's a signed in user. This can happen for example in multi-session scenarios. To me it seems like this should align between the components, but I wasn't sure so I kept the existing behavior.


This is a very gnarly area of the code. A better fix likely lives in setActive, but that's a bigger and riskier change, so I didn't want to tackle it right now.


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  • pnpm test runs as expected.
  • pnpm build runs as expected.
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  • packages/ui/src/components/SignIn/__tests__/SignInFactorOne.test.tsx
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Adds useSignInStepGuard for inactive and transitional sign-in states. Applies the guard to SignInFactorOne and SignInFactorTwo. Adds navigation tests for activation, recovery, abandoned flows, and signed-in redirects. Adds a patch changeset for @clerk/ui.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 496d4

This localized sign-in navigation fix prevents a brief flash of the signup start screen; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

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Description check ✅ Passed The description clearly explains the sign-in flash fix, the new guard hook, redirect behavior, and test integration.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: fixing the brief sign-in start-page flash before successful navigation.
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%.
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In `@packages/ui/src/components/SignIn/__tests__/SignInFactorOne.test.tsx`:
- Around line 93-110: Update the mount-time restoration tests for
SignInFactorOne and SignInFactorTwo: in both specified files and line ranges,
set __internal_setActiveInProgress before render, restore signIn.status to a
non-null value before clearing the restoration flag, wait beyond the
useSignInStepGuard polling interval, then assert navigation was not called.
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Ephem force-pushed the fredrik/fix-signin-bounce branch from cc1404e to f0f6f70 Compare August 18, 2026 15:00
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