TouchableWithoutFeedback

Do not use unless you have a very good reason. All elements that respond to press should have a visual feedback when touched.

TouchableWithoutFeedback supports only one child. If you wish to have several child components, wrap them in a View. Importantly, TouchableWithoutFeedback works by cloning its child and applying responder props to it. It is therefore required that any intermediary components pass through those props to the underlying React Native component.

Usage Pattern

function MyComponent(props: MyComponentProps) {
  return (
    <View {...props} style={{flex: 1, backgroundColor: '#fff'}}>
      <Text>My Component</Text>
    </View>
  );
}

<TouchableWithoutFeedback onPress={() => alert('Pressed!')}>
  <MyComponent />
</TouchableWithoutFeedback>;

Example

import React, {useState} from 'react';
import {StyleSheet, TouchableWithoutFeedback, Text, View} from 'react-native';

const TouchableWithoutFeedbackExample = () => {
  const [count, setCount] = useState(0);

  const onPress = () => {
    setCount(count + 1);
  };

  return (
    <View style={styles.container}>
      <View style={styles.countContainer}>
        <Text style={styles.countText}>Count: {count}</Text>
      </View>
      <TouchableWithoutFeedback onPress={onPress}>
        <View style={styles.button}>
          <Text>Touch Here</Text>
        </View>
      </TouchableWithoutFeedback>
    </View>
  );
};

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    justifyContent: 'center',
    paddingHorizontal: 10,
  },
  button: {
    alignItems: 'center',
    backgroundColor: '#DDDDDD',
    padding: 10,
  },
  countContainer: {
    alignItems: 'center',
    padding: 10,
  },
  countText: {
    color: '#FF00FF',
  },
});

export default TouchableWithoutFeedbackExample;

Reference

Props

accessible

When true, indicates that the view is an accessibility element. By default, all the touchable elements are accessible.

accessibilityLabel

Overrides the text that's read by the screen reader when the user interacts with the element. By default, the label is constructed by traversing all the children and accumulating all the Text nodes separated by space.

accessibilityHint

An accessibility hint helps users understand what will happen when they perform an action on the accessibility element when that result is not clear from the accessibility label.

accessibilityRole

accessibilityRole communicates the purpose of a component to the user of an assistive technology.

accessibilityRole can be one of the following:

• 'none' - Used when the element has no role.
• 'button' - Used when the element should be treated as a button.
• 'link' - Used when the element should be treated as a link.
• 'search' - Used when the text field element should also be treated as a search field.
• 'image' - Used when the element should be treated as an image. Can be combined with button or link, for example.
• 'keyboardkey' - Used when the element acts as a keyboard key.
• 'text' - Used when the element should be treated as static text that cannot change.
• 'adjustable' - Used when an element can be "adjusted" (e.g. a slider).
• 'imagebutton' - Used when the element should be treated as a button and is also an image.
• 'header' - Used when an element acts as a header for a content section (e.g. the title of a navigation bar).
• 'summary' - Used when an element can be used to provide a quick summary of current conditions in the app when the app first launches.
• 'alert' - Used when an element contains important text to be presented to the user.
• 'checkbox' - Used when an element represents a checkbox which can be checked, unchecked, or have mixed checked state.
• 'combobox' - Used when an element represents a combo box, which allows the user to select among several choices.
• 'menu' - Used when the component is a menu of choices.
• 'menubar' - Used when a component is a container of multiple menus.
• 'menuitem' - Used to represent an item within a menu.
• 'progressbar' - Used to represent a component which indicates progress of a task.
• 'radio' - Used to represent a radio button.
• 'radiogroup' - Used to represent a group of radio buttons.
• 'scrollbar' - Used to represent a scroll bar.
• 'spinbutton' - Used to represent a button which opens a list of choices.
• 'switch' - Used to represent a switch which can be turned on and off.
• 'tab' - Used to represent a tab.
• 'tablist' - Used to represent a list of tabs.
• 'timer' - Used to represent a timer.
• 'toolbar' - Used to represent a tool bar (a container of action buttons or components).

accessibilityState

Describes the current state of a component to the user of an assistive technology.

See the Accessibility guide for more information.

accessibilityActions

Accessibility actions allow an assistive technology to programmatically invoke the actions of a component. The accessibilityActions property should contain a list of action objects. Each action object should contain the field name and label.

See the Accessibility guide for more information.

aria-busy

Indicates an element is being modified. Assistive technologies may want to wait until the changes are complete before informing the user about the update.

aria-checked

Indicates the state of a checkable element. This field can either take a boolean or the "mixed" string to represent mixed checkboxes.

aria-disabled

Indicates that the element is perceivable but disabled, so it is not editable or otherwise operable.

aria-expanded

Indicates whether an expandable element is currently expanded or collapsed.

aria-hidden

Indicates whether the accessibility elements contained within this accessibility element are hidden.

For example, in a window that contains sibling views A and B, setting aria-hidden to true on view B causes VoiceOver to ignore the elements in the view B.

ariaLabel

Obsolete. Use aria-label instead.

The value for ariaLabel refers to the name of the item, such as "Alexa, select Prime Video".

This prop is required if the app wants to allow user to perform voice selection based on the name.

Note: Providing the prop with a value does not result in the value being rendered as the title of the component, the app must explictly render the same text value for the item.

aria-label

aria-label is an accessibility prop. You can use it to specify the name of the item in voice selection, such as "Alexa, select Prime Video".

This prop is required if the app needs to allow the user to perform voice selection based on the name.

Note: Providing the prop with a value does not result in the value being rendered as the title of the component, the app must explictly render the same text value for the item.

aria-labelledby

Identifies the element that labels the element it is applied to. Note: If the value of aria-labelledby doesn't match the nativeID value of the related element the element won't be labled.

<View>
  <Text nativeID="formLabel">Label for Input Field</Text>
  <TextInput aria-label="input" aria-labelledby="formLabel" />
</View>

aria-live

Indicates that an element will be updated, and describes the types of updates the user agents, assistive technologies, and user can expect from the live region.

• off Accessibility services should not announce changes to this view.
• polite Accessibility services should announce changes to this view.
• assertive Accessibility services should interrupt ongoing speech to immediately announce changes to this view.

aria-selected

Indicates whether a selectable element is currently selected or not.

onAccessibilityAction

Invoked when the user performs the accessibility actions. The only argument to this function is an event containing the name of the action to perform.

See the Accessibility guide for more information.

accessibilityValue

Represents the current value of a component. It can be a textual description of a component's value, or for range-based components, such as sliders and progress bars, it contains range information (minimum, current, and maximum).

See the Accessibility guide for more information.

aria-valuemax

Represents the maximum value for range-based components, such as sliders and progress bars. Has precedence over the max value in the accessibilityValue prop.

aria-valuemin

Represents the minimum value for range-based components, such as sliders and progress bars. Has precedence over the min value in the accessibilityValue prop.

aria-valuenow

Represents the current value for range-based components, such as sliders and progress bars. Has precedence over the now value in the accessibilityValue prop.

aria-valuetext

Represents the textual description of the component. Has precedence over the text value in the accessibilityValue prop.

accessibilityDescribedByKepler

This property receives a list of nativeID of elements which describe this element. In the context of TV you can use it to link an individual content tile with the details view or other on-screen elements which describe it. As with label relationships, description relationships should be reciprocal. If element A is describedBy elements B and C, then elements B and C should also be a descriptionFor element A.

accessibilityOrientationTextKepler

This optional string property describes how a user should interact with content inside this pane. It should only be included when the understanding of the visual layout of content is essential to navigating it successfully.

disabled

If true, disable all interactions for this component.

hitSlop

This defines how far your touch can start away from the button. This is added to pressRetentionOffset when moving off of the button.

The touch area never extends past the parent view bounds and the Z-index of sibling views always takes precedence if a touch hits two overlapping views.

id

Used to locate this view from native code. Has precedence over nativeID prop.

onBlur

Invoked when the item loses focus.

onFocus

Invoked when the item receives focus.

enableSynchronousFocusEventsKepler

When set to true, onFocus and onBlur events are dispatched synchronously. UI Thread will be blocked until the execution of onFocus or onBlur from JavaScript has completed.

onLayout

Invoked on mount and on layout changes.

nativeID

testID

Used to locate this view in end-to-end tests.

alexaEntityType - Kepler Only

alexaEntityType represents the value for the type of object that needs to be considered by Alexa UIController Interface. This is an optional prop and specific to Alexa UIController Interface support, it maps to the entity.type field from the Alexa UIController Interface (Alexa UIController API doc)

alexaExternalIds - Kepler Only

This is an optional prop and specific to Alexa UIController Interface support, it maps to the entity.ExternalIds field from the Alexa UIController Interface (Alexa UIController API doc)

entity.ExternalIds are the identifiers for this entity unique within the scope of this endpoint. The entity.externalIds field are opaque to Alexa and are only used to include in directives from Alexa. The identifiers reported in entity.externalIds are required to be understood by the endpoint on all directive commands that accept an entity structure.

ariaPosInSet

The value for ariaPosInSet refers to the number of the element when the user can refer to the element by number, such as "Alexa, select number one."

This prop is required if the app wants to allow user to perform voice selection based on the number.

Note that providing the prop with a value does not result in the value being rendered automatically from the component, for a consistent user behavior, app needs to render the same ordinal value for the item.

keplerAltLabels - Kepler Only

The value for keplerAltLabels refers to the list of alternate names for the item.

Note: This property replaces keplerAtlLabels. keplerAtlLabels is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

This prop is required if the app wants to allow user to perform voice selection on the same item with different names.

Last updated: Sep 30, 2025