[expo] Supabase Auth Fails After Expo OTA Update IOS

[NoRoboto]

Bug report

• I confirm this is a bug with Supabase, not with my own application.
• I confirm I have searched the Docs, GitHub Discussions, and Discord.

Describe the bug

After applying an Expo OTA (Over-the-Air) update, Supabase authentication fails.

• Session persistence works fine when the app is closed and reopened normally.
• However, after running await Updates.reloadAsync(), the session cannot be restored automatically or manually using stored tokens.
• The error returned is: Network request failed - AuthRetryableFetchError

To Reproduce

1. Initialize Supabase with:

import AsyncStorage from '@react-native-async-storage/async-storage';

const supabaseInstance = createClient<Database>(supabaseUrl, supabaseAnonKey, {
  auth: {
    storage: AsyncStorage,
    autoRefreshToken: true,
    persistSession: true,
    detectSessionInUrl: false,
  },
});

2. Run an OTA update using await Updates.reloadAsync();
3. Observe that Supabase cannot restore the session.
4. as a workaround I tried to trigger the authentication manually by retrieving the session tokens, without success.

const { data, error } = await supabase.auth.setSession({
      access_token: tokens.access_token,
      refresh_token: tokens.refresh_token,
    });

or any other subsequent supabase call yields this error: Network request failed - AuthRetryableFetchError

The same tokens work correctly if not OTA downloaded.

Expected behavior

The session should persist across OTA updates, just like it does when the app is closed and reopened normally.

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System information

• OS: macOS
• Our app is only for IOS, we do not have support for android yet.
• "react-native": "0.76.5"
• "@supabase/supabase-js": "^2.43.5"