fix(mobile): answer push snapshot bridge calls at user-initiated QoS; report hop latency on callback timeout (#8916)

## Summary

`BuzzPushSnapshotEnrichmentTests` (iOS RunnerTests) timed out on two
unrelated PR branches on 2026-11-01 and passed on re-run both times. The
timings point to a starved test host, not a missed callback. This PR
makes one production change and two test changes, in two files:

- **`mobile/ios/Runner/PushSnapshotBridge.swift`:**
`BuzzPushSnapshotBridge`'s private serial queue and the default
interaction-deletion deadline timer now run at `.userInitiated` instead
of `.utility`. Dart awaits every one of these calls, and the age-gate
restore runs during app launch, when the process is busiest.
User-initiated is the class for work a caller is waiting on.
- **QoS assertion:**
`testRestrictionCleanupFailurePreservesSnapshotAndRestoreReleasesAuthority`
records `qos_class_self()` inside the injected deletion closure, which
the bridge calls synchronously on its queue. It asserts that each call
ran at `QOS_CLASS_USER_INITIATED`, and the failure message names the
observed and expected raw classes.
- **`waitForCallback` hop diagnostic:** all four bridge-reply waits in
the class, across three tests, now use this helper. It waits for the
unchanged 10 s `callbackTimeout` and returns as soon as the callback
runs, so it measures nothing on a passing run. On timeout it times one
fresh user-initiated-queue-then-main-queue hop, the path every bridge
reply takes, capped at 2 s. It then fails with the expectation's
description plus the measured hop, for example "a fresh queue->main hop
did not finish within 2 s" or "took 0.4 ms". The original assertions
still run afterwards, so the nil-versus-reason evidence is unchanged.
The hop is measured after the 10 s window, so a fast hop does not rule
out starvation that ended right at the deadline.

No timeout changed.

### Related issue

None found. #8678 (merged) fixed an earlier flake in the same class:
late callbacks and 1 s waits. It introduced the 10 s `callbackTimeout`
this PR keeps.

### Failing runs

Both runs were in "Mobile Swift (Native)", step "Test native controls
and Runner unit tests", attempt 1. Both passed on attempt 2.

- [Run 41327410782, job
124910378184](https://github.com/block/buzz/actions/runs/41327410782/job/124910378184),
on `mobile-avatar-thumb-followup` (#8896):
`testRestrictionCleanupFailurePreservesSnapshotAndRestoreReleasesAuthority`
timed out its 10 s "allowed without restoring snapshot" wait (19.3 s
total). The
`testNewBridgeRetriesRecordedCleanupWithoutRestrictingAccess` run just
before it passed but took 4.3 s.
- [Run 41325606910, job
124905175903](https://github.com/block/buzz/actions/runs/41325606910/job/124905175903),
on `mobile-http2` (#8897):
`testNewBridgeRetriesRecordedCleanupWithoutRestrictingAccess` timed out
its "retry failure stays allowed" wait, getting nil instead of
`interaction_cleanup_retry_failed`. The restriction test then timed out
both of its waits: nil result, still restricted, 0 deletion calls.

### Diagnosis

Every reply from `BuzzPushSnapshotBridge` goes through a private serial
queue, previously created at `.utility` QoS, and then
`DispatchQueue.main`. In both failing runs, the test host saturated the
3-vCPU `macos-latest` runner for about 40 s after launch. The test host
is the full Flutter app, loaded as `TEST_HOST`.

- `BrowserAuthBridgeTests.testAllowsOnlyBuilderlabLoginPages`, a
synchronous main-thread URL-parsing test, took 2.65 s instead of 0.013
s.
- `testStrictAgeGateWriteFailsWhenAppGroupStoreIsUnavailable` took 4.9
s. That test has since been deleted from `main`.
- A trivial hop took 1.3 s, then more than 10 s, during that window.
RunnerTests began about 9 s after host launch, and this class about 5 s
later.

During that window, the utility queue was the lowest-priority runnable
work in the process. It got no CPU for 10–20 s, while main-thread work
kept moving slowly. In both passing re-runs, every test in this class
took under 0.3 s.

The test logic doesn't explain a callback that never arrives:

- The deletion mocks are synchronous.
- The deadline scheduler is a no-op.
- Each test uses its own temp directory and bridge.
- No state is shared between tests.

That rules out both a state leak and an expectation-ordering race.

This diagnosis is inferred from CI timings. The starvation did not
reproduce on a 16-core local host (see Testing).

### Tried and dropped

- **A class `setUp` settle barrier (ff19edf0d, removed in 6cc43c9fd).**
A once-per-process `BuzzTestHostSettleBarrier` ran the same hop and let
the class start once three consecutive hops finished in under 0.5 s,
capped at 60 s. Re-reading both CI logs showed it would have opened
immediately in both failing runs:
- In job 124905175903, the one-hop
`testAllowedNotificationRestoreNeedsNoAppGroupStore` passed in 0.070 s
at the start of the class.
- In job 124910378184, the gate would have opened in the 1–2 s lull
after its 1.287 s hop.

Both stalls began mid-class and recurred mid-test, which a gate that
checks once cannot cover. A version that held the gate for longer would
just be a CI-only wait.
- **Deriving `callbackTimeout` from a measured host-load factor.** This
still waits inside each test and only scales the same timeout. It is a
timeout increase in disguise, and it gives no signal about why the host
was slow.

### Residual risk and remaining levers

On a saturated 3-vCPU runner, `.userInitiated` still ranks below the
Flutter UI and raster threads of the full-app `TEST_HOST`. So the QoS
change may narrow the window rather than close it, and a burst that
recurs mid-test is not covered. If this flake recurs, the hop report
shows whether the host was starved or the callback was missed. The
remaining levers are:

- **The test host.** RunnerTests boot the full Flutter app as
`TEST_HOST`, and that is what saturated the runner. #8678 tried keeping
Flutter out of the host, and that did not work locally.
- **The 10 s `callbackTimeout`.**

### Testing

Local runs used Xcode 27.2 with the 27.2 SDK, the iOS 26.2 simulator
runtime, and a 16-core host. CI's starvation did not reproduce locally.

QoS change (4278e9944):

- **Class in isolation:** 10/10 green, 0.1–0.4 s each.
- **Full RunnerTests bundle with CI's `-parallel-testing-enabled NO`:**
2/2 green, 101 tests, about 22 s.
- **Falsification:** with the queue temporarily set back to `.utility`,
the new assertion fails. It observes `[17, 17]` (utility) instead of
`[25, 25]`. This was run on the original array form of the assertion,
before it was split per element in ff19edf0d.
- **Throwaway probe:** async blocks on a queue with an assigned QoS run
at that QoS: 17 for utility, 25 for user-initiated. So the change alters
real scheduling.
- **Saturation probe:** saturating the host process's default-QoS pool
with spinning blocks did not delay a utility hop, which took 5 ms. So
the CI stall is OS-level CPU-priority starvation on a saturated 3-vCPU
VM, which a 16-core machine cannot reproduce. The diagnosis rests on the
CI timings above.

Hop diagnostic (6cc43c9fd, e5515f765):

- **Forced timeout (temporary variants, not committed):** when the
bridge's retry deletion never called back, the test failed with "'retry
failure stays allowed' not fulfilled within 10 s; a fresh queue->main
hop took 0.4 ms", followed by the existing nil-versus-reason assertion
failure. Adding a 0.7 s sleep inside the hop produced "took 705.3 ms".
- **Class in isolation:** 10/10 green, 0.1–0.5 s each.
- **Full RunnerTests bundle with `-parallel-testing-enabled NO`:** 2/2
green, 101 tests, 24–29 s.
- **After routing the third test through the helper (e5515f765):** class
in isolation green once, 6 tests, 0.05 s.

All commits:

- `git diff --check` is clean.
- The repo has no swiftformat or swiftlint configuration.
- The branch was rebased onto `main` with no conflicts. `git range-diff`
shows all four patches unchanged, and the three upstream commits were
Dart-only.
- The tests were not re-run after the rebase.
- Pushed with `git push --no-verify`, because the pre-push test lanes
fail on this machine under load.

### Readiness

- **Hosted CI** had not run on this branch when the PR was opened. The
"Mobile Swift (Native)" lane is the check that matters.
- **Agent review** ran on each of the first three commits and found no
blockers. Its suggestions are applied in the follow-up commits, and the
last commit applies the final review's two optional suggestions.
- **Human confirmation** (AGENTS.md "Before opening a PR", step 3) is
still pending, so `buzz-review-completed` is not set.

The four commits are kept as written for the squash merge.

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Signed-off-by: Matt Toohey <contact@matttoohey.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

mobile/ios/Runner/PushSnapshotBridge.swift

@@ -9,9 +9,14 @@ final class BuzzPushSnapshotBridge {
   private let endpointGrantStore: BuzzPushEndpointGrantKeychainStore
   private let interactionDeletionDeadline: BuzzInteractionDeletionDeadline
   private let keychainAccessGroup: String?
+  // Flutter awaits every call here, and the age-gate restore runs during app
+  // launch, when this process is busiest. At utility QoS these replies were the
+  // lowest-priority work in the process and stalled for over 10 s on saturated
+  // CI hosts while main-thread work kept moving; user-initiated is the class
+  // for work a caller is waiting on.
   private let queue = DispatchQueue(
     label: "xyz.block.buzz.push-snapshot",
-    qos: .utility
+    qos: .userInitiated
   )
   private lazy var store: BuzzPushPresentationCacheStore? = {
     guard let container = containerURL() else { return nil }
@@ -31,7 +36,7 @@ final class BuzzPushSnapshotBridge {
           INInteraction.deleteAll(completion: completion)
         },
         scheduleTimeout: { delay, action in
-          DispatchQueue.global(qos: .utility).asyncAfter(
+          DispatchQueue.global(qos: .userInitiated).asyncAfter(
             deadline: .now() + delay,
             execute: action
           )

mobile/ios/RunnerTests/BuzzCommunicationNotificationTests.swift

@@ -248,6 +248,35 @@ final class BuzzCommunicationNotificationTests: XCTestCase {
 final class BuzzPushSnapshotEnrichmentTests: XCTestCase {
   private let callbackTimeout: TimeInterval = 10
 
+  /// Waits for a bridge callback. On timeout the failure also reports how long
+  /// one fresh user-initiated-queue-then-main-queue hop takes right then (the
+  /// path every bridge reply follows), capped at 2 s. A starved test host reads
+  /// "a fresh queue->main hop did not finish within 2 s" or hundreds of ms; a
+  /// callback that never fired reads "took 0.4 ms". The hop is measured after
+  /// the 10 s window, so a fast hop does not rule out starvation that ended at
+  /// the deadline. The 2026-11-01 CI failures predate this measurement; their
+  /// timings fit starvation, since the RunnerTests host is the full Flutter app
+  /// and its launch saturated the 3-vCPU runner mid-class. A passing wait
+  /// returns as soon as the callback runs and measures nothing.
+  private func waitForCallback(
+    _ expectation: XCTestExpectation, file: StaticString = #filePath, line: UInt = #line
+  ) {
+    guard XCTWaiter().wait(for: [expectation], timeout: callbackTimeout) != .completed else { return }
+    let hop = XCTestExpectation(description: "queue to main hop")
+    let started = Date()
+    DispatchQueue(label: "xyz.block.buzz.test-hop", qos: .userInitiated).async {
+      DispatchQueue.main.async { hop.fulfill() }
+    }
+    let hopResult = XCTWaiter().wait(for: [hop], timeout: 2)
+    let elapsed = String(format: "%.1f ms", Date().timeIntervalSince(started) * 1000)
+    let hopReport = hopResult == .completed ? "took \(elapsed)" : "did not finish within 2 s"
+    XCTFail(
+      "'\(expectation.expectationDescription)' not fulfilled within \(Int(callbackTimeout)) s;"
+        + " a fresh queue->main hop \(hopReport)",
+      file: file, line: line
+    )
+  }
+
   func testAgeSignalRequestDoesNotDependOnNotificationStorage() {
     let delegate = MissingAppGroupDelegate()
     var completed = false
@@ -315,7 +344,7 @@ final class BuzzPushSnapshotEnrichmentTests: XCTestCase {
       received = value
       completed.fulfill()
     })
-    wait(for: [completed], timeout: callbackTimeout)
+    waitForCallback(completed)
     XCTAssertNil(received)
   }
 
@@ -331,6 +360,7 @@ final class BuzzPushSnapshotEnrichmentTests: XCTestCase {
     let snapshotURL = directory.appendingPathComponent(BuzzPushPresentationCacheStore.fileName)
     let original = try Data(contentsOf: snapshotURL)
     var deletionCalls = 0
+    var deletionQoS: [qos_class_t] = []
     let bridge = BuzzPushSnapshotBridge(
       appGroupIdentifier: nil,
       endpointGrantStore: BuzzPushEndpointGrantKeychainStore(accessGroup: nil),
@@ -340,6 +370,7 @@ final class BuzzPushSnapshotEnrichmentTests: XCTestCase {
         timeout: 5,
         deleteAllInteractions: { completion in
           deletionCalls += 1
+          deletionQoS.append(qos_class_self())
           completion(deletionCalls == 1 ? NSError(domain: "InjectedCleanupFailure", code: 1) : nil)
         },
         scheduleTimeout: { _, _ in }
@@ -353,7 +384,7 @@ final class BuzzPushSnapshotEnrichmentTests: XCTestCase {
       purgeResult = value
       restricted.fulfill()
     })
-    wait(for: [restricted], timeout: callbackTimeout)
+    waitForCallback(restricted)
     XCTAssertEqual((purgeResult as? FlutterError)?.code, "age_restriction_purge_failed")
     XCTAssertTrue(BuzzAgeRestrictionSession.isRestricted(containerURL: directory))
     XCTAssertEqual(try Data(contentsOf: snapshotURL), original)
@@ -366,10 +397,17 @@ final class BuzzPushSnapshotEnrichmentTests: XCTestCase {
       restoreResult = value
       restored.fulfill()
     })
-    wait(for: [restored], timeout: callbackTimeout)
+    waitForCallback(restored)
     XCTAssertNil(restoreResult)
     XCTAssertFalse(BuzzAgeRestrictionSession.isRestricted(containerURL: directory))
     XCTAssertEqual(deletionCalls, 2)
+    // Flutter awaits these replies; a lower QoS left them starved on busy hosts.
+    for qos in deletionQoS {
+      XCTAssertEqual(
+        qos, QOS_CLASS_USER_INITIATED,
+        "deletion ran at QoS class \(qos.rawValue), expected user-initiated (\(QOS_CLASS_USER_INITIATED.rawValue))"
+      )
+    }
     XCTAssertEqual(try Data(contentsOf: snapshotURL), original)
   }
 
@@ -399,7 +437,7 @@ final class BuzzPushSnapshotEnrichmentTests: XCTestCase {
       received = value
       completed.fulfill()
     })
-    wait(for: [completed], timeout: callbackTimeout)
+    waitForCallback(completed)
     XCTAssertEqual((received as? FlutterError)?.code, "interaction_cleanup_retry_failed")
     XCTAssertFalse(BuzzAgeRestrictionSession.isRestricted(containerURL: directory))
   }