[Part 27] Remove Onyx.connect from LocalePhoneNumber

[marufsharifi]

Explanation of Change

Refactor formatPhoneNumber in SidebarsUtils.ts

This PR also updates the Enable Travel legal-name step to use formatPhoneNumber from useLocalize() instead of importing it directly from LocalePhoneNumber.

A focused test was added to verify the legal-name step submits trimmed names with the localized formatter and advances to the next step.

Fixed Issues

$ #66327
PROPOSAL:

Tests

• Verify that no errors appear in the JS console

Offline tests

QA Steps

Case 1: Verify a country phone number in a direct chat

Precondition: Have a chat participant whose login is a phone number.

1. Start or open a direct chat with the phone-number user.

2. Verify the phone number is displayed in the expected national format in the:

   • LHN chat title
   • Chat header
   • “This chat is with…” welcome message

3. Send a message and navigate away from the chat.

4. Verify the phone number and message preview are displayed correctly in the LHN.

5. Reopen the chat.

6. Verify the phone number remains correctly formatted.

Case 2: Verify phone numbers in a group chat

1. Create a group chat containing the same-country and different-country phone-number users.
2. Open the group chat.
3. Verify the beginning-of-chat welcome message displays both participants’ phone numbers correctly.
4. Navigate away from the group chat.
5. Verify the group chat appears correctly in the LHN.
6. Reopen the group chat and verify the welcome message remains correct.

Case 3: Verify an individual invoice-room welcome message

Precondition: The individual invoice recipient must use a phone number as their login and must not have a display name.

1. Send an invoice to the individual phone-number user.
2. Open the generated invoice room.
3. Verify the beginning-of-chat invoice message displays the individual’s correctly formatted phone number.
4. Navigate away from the invoice room and reopen it.
5. Verify the phone number remains correctly formatted.

Case 4: Travel Legal Name Step.

1. Sign in with a new Expensify account.
2. Create a new workspace.
3. Go to the workspace settings.
4. Go to More features.
5. Enable Travel.
6. Open the Travel page in workspace settings.
7. Click Let’s go.
8. Verify the Book travel panel opens with What’s your legal name?.
9. Enter a value in Legal first name.
10. Enter a value in Legal last name.
11. Click Next.
12. Verify the flow advances successfully and shows the travel request confirmation/request sent state.

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• Verify that no errors appear in the JS console

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Screenshots/Videos

Android: Native

Android: mWeb Chrome

iOS: Native

iOS: mWeb Safari

MacOS: Chrome / Safari

Case 1: Verify a country phone number in a direct chat

Screencast.From.2026-08-04.22-36-01.webm

Case 2: Verify phone numbers in a group chat

Screencast.From.2026-08-04.22-37-24.webm

Case 3: Verify an individual invoice-room welcome message

Screencast.From.2026-08-04.22-39-37.webm

Case 4: Travel Legal Name Step.

Screencast.From.2026-07-30.23-42-14.webm

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[marufsharifi]

@shubham1206agra, could you please take a look at this pr when you get a chance? thanks.

the failure actions are not related to our changes. BTW

[trjExpensify]

PR doesn’t need product input as a refactor PR. Unassigning and unsubscribing myself.

[marufsharifi]

@shubham1206agra, Gentle bump. thanks.

[marufsharifi]

@shubham1206agra, Gentle bump. thanks.

[shubham1206agra]

Let's hold this PR on #97995

[shubham1206agra]

@marufsharifi Merge main please

[shubham1206agra]

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No help site changes required

I reviewed the changes in this PR against Expensify's help site content in App/docs/articles, and no documentation updates are needed — so I did not create a draft docs PR.

Why: This is an internal refactor ([Part 27] Remove Onyx.connect from LocalePhoneNumber). It threads formatPhoneNumber from useLocalize() through function parameters instead of importing it directly from LocalePhoneNumber (in SidebarUtils.ts, ReportWelcomeText.tsx, OptionRowLHNData.tsx, DebugReportActions.tsx, and the Travel LegalNameStep.tsx), plus added tests. There is:

• No new feature, setting, tab, button, or label
• No user-facing copy added or changed
• No behavior change — phone numbers still render in the same national format; the QA steps only verify existing behavior is preserved

None of this maps to a customer-facing concept documented on the help site, so there's nothing to update.

@marufsharifi, since no help site PR was created, there's nothing further to review here. If you believe a specific article should still be updated, let me know which one and I'll take another look.