Session Recordings Persist for 180 Hours in posthog-react-native

[mshaheer-softindex]

Bug description

Session recordings in PostHog for our app are lasting up to 180 hours, which is an excessive waste of resources and should be handled better.

How to reproduce

1. Use posthog-react-native (3.6.1) and posthog-react-native-session-replay (0.1.8).
2. Enable session replay and allow sessions to be recorded.
3. Observe session durations reaching 180 hours instead of expected shorter durations.

Related sub-libraries

• All of them
• posthog-web
• posthog-node
• posthog-react-native

Additional context

This issue causes unnecessary storage and resource consumption, leading to inefficiencies. A fix to limit session lengths appropriately would be highly beneficial.

[marandaneto]

hello @mshaheer-softindex
this should not happen since session id should be rotated if inactive for 30min.
is that Android, iOS, or both?
Can you share the link to a recording? you can email me manoel @ posthog . com
can you upgrade the SDK to the latest version (including upgrading your iOS pods), and test this out again?

Thanks.

[mshaheer-softindex]

hello @mshaheer-softindex this should not happen since session id should be rotated if inactive for 30min. is that Android, iOS, or both? Can you share the link to a recording? you can email me manoel @ posthog . com can you upgrade the SDK to the latest version (including upgrading your iOS pods), and test this out again?

Thanks.

This issue occurs on iOS only. I am unable to share the recording. However, I will provide an update once I have updated the packages.