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Activity Tab (User story): Timeline of Behavior - Empty State
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Description

User story

As a user with no history to see, I would like to see an empty state so I understand what the screen will show.

Requirements:
  • Show empty state if user has no history to show in the timeline
  • Show empty state right away if someone uses "Clear reading history"

Empty State

  • If no timeline data, still show “Today” header
  • Build empty view and show (note, we may need to build a non-scrollable variant of our current empty view so we don’t have a scroll view embedded within a scroll view). Try to use WMFEmptyView from WMFComponents if possible.
Testing Notes

These fixes are in the TestFlight Wikipedia app 7.8.7, starting in build 5894 (this can also be tested in a later build number).

Event Timeline

Tsevener updated the task description. (Show Details)
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HNordeenWMF triaged this task as Medium priority.Nov 7 2025, 5:24 PM
HNordeenWMF renamed this task from Activity Tab (Eng Subtask): Timeline of Behavior - Empty State to Activity Tab (User story): Timeline of Behavior - Empty State.Nov 14 2025, 8:45 PM
HNordeenWMF updated the task description. (Show Details)

P0 items that must be fixed (see punchlist):

  • 1 borders around "no history to show"
  • 3 when logging out and deleting activity, not all activity deletes

@HNordeenWMF @Tsevener

1 is fixed but i'm still seeing 3 — see video here: @Tsevener

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eag2Vkxvwd0ig51FQmrKyJVXNjJTiMs6/view?usp=sharing

(also there's an odd space between the last and penultimate item, not sure what that's about — do you know?)

@Tsevener i'm also noticing that when i log out now i'm not seeing the empty state illustration + title surface anymore, is this a known issue?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bp2Opka7dpAGeLkUX7NwyBnXS0GnLAN-/view?usp=sharing

i'm also noticing that when i log out now i'm not seeing the empty state illustration + title surface anymore, is this a known issue?

Per @SChekfa-WMF this isn't happening anymore, so fine to move along.

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Working on 7.8.7 (5900). Tested on iPhone 16 on iOS 26, iPad Pro on iPadOS 26, iPhone SE on iOS 26, and iPhone 11 on iOS 18.