To give more clarity on the issue, i am developing this for IOS using expo push notifications and react-navigation v6 along with expo sdk44 in my current project.

I am having an issue when the user interacts with the notification while the app is in a killed state (the notificatiosn arrives succesfully with all of the data), what im having trouble with is, i want to navigate the user to a specific screen. The problem is because my navigationRef is null. Here i need to mention i did not create a seperate RootNavigator. Like it is shown here

The docs also show you how to integrate this listener with react-navigation. Link: https://docs.expo.dev/versions/latest/sdk/notifications/#handling-push-notifications-with-react-navigation