[iOS] Tabs don't fire tabLongPress event on iOS 26

[alizahid]

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Bug summary

Tabs don't fire tabLongPress event on iOS 26. However, it does work on iOS 18.

Library version

1.4.0

Environment info

"react-native": "0.86.3",
"expo": "~57.0.20",
"expo-router": "~57.0.19",
"react-native-bottom-tabs": "^1.4.0",
"@bottom-tabs/react-navigation": "^1.4.0",

Steps to reproduce

1. Create an expo app with expo router
2. Install bottom-tabs
3. Add a tabLongPress listener to a tab

Reproducible sample code

import {
  createNativeBottomTabNavigator,
  type NativeBottomTabNavigationEventMap,
  type NativeBottomTabNavigationOptions,
} from '@bottom-tabs/react-navigation'
import { type TabNavigationState, withLayoutContext } from 'expo-router'
import { type ParamListBase } from 'expo-router/react-navigation'

const { Navigator } = createNativeBottomTabNavigator()

const Tabs = withLayoutContext<
  NativeBottomTabNavigationOptions,
  typeof Navigator,
  TabNavigationState<ParamListBase>,
  NativeBottomTabNavigationEventMap
>(Navigator)

function App() {
  <Tabs>
    <Tabs.Screen
      listeners={{
        tabLongPress() {
          console.log('tabLongPress')
        },
      }}
      name="index"
    />
  </Tabs>
}