Create blank screen Add Tab View Add Second Tab View Item to Tab View Add one Text Input Box to each Tab View Item Set Auto Focus to enabled on both text boxes Tab View disappears and you're left with one item. Appears to be reproducible only in Web View, because app previews work fine. However, in Web View it is impossible to develop once this occurs. Console log shows "Animated: useNativeDriver is not supported because the native animated module is missing. Falling back to JS-based animation. To resolve this, add RCTAnimation module to this app, or remove useNativeDriver . Make sure to run bundle exec pod install first. Read more about autolinking: https://github.com/react-native-community/cli/blob/master/docs/autolinking.md "