Login - Onboarding modal does not appear when logging in with a new account

[IuliiaHerets]

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Version Number: v9.0.68-0 Reproducible in staging?: Y Reproducible in production?: Y Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): htad26+dfgssdsddhgf@gmail.com Issue reported by: Applause Internal Team

Action Performed:

1. Navigate to staging.new.expensify.com
2. Log in with a new gmail account

Expected Result:

Onboarding modal appears when logging in with a new Gmail account

Actual Result:

Onboarding modal doesn't appear when logging in with a new Gmail account. User is logged in to the account directly without the onboarding proccess

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

• [ ] Android: Standalone
• [ ] Android: HybridApp
• [x] Android: mWeb Chrome
• [ ] iOS: Standalone
• [ ] iOS: HybridApp
• [ ] iOS: mWeb Safari
• [x] MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• [ ] MacOS: Desktop

Screenshots/Videos

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d102ebc8-68f3-4af3-aa1d-2bdb5c444e59

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[melvin-bot[bot]]

Triggered auto assignment to @muttmuure (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details. Please add this bug to a GH project, as outlined in the SO.

[NJ-2020]

BE issue, OpenApp api command returning empty object for onboarding value

[melvin-bot[bot]]

@muttmuure Whoops! This issue is 2 days overdue. Let's get this updated quick!

[mountiny]

Cc @trjExpensify

[trjExpensify]

Ah, is this the bug you saw on dev only? 🤔

[trjExpensify]

Discussing in this thread.

[trjExpensify]

Taking this over. Vit has a PR up.

[mountiny]

PR is merged, but we could not reproduce locally as this seems to be some production specific issue when user runs into a commit, this explains flakiness. hopefully this change will fix it