diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/fabric/mounting/SurfaceMountingManager.java b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/fabric/mounting/SurfaceMountingManager.java
index 63b79a4d222..754bc894574 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/fabric/mounting/SurfaceMountingManager.java
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/fabric/mounting/SurfaceMountingManager.java
@@ -211,11 +211,22 @@ public class SurfaceMountingManager {
                     + " tag: [%d]",
                 rootView.getId(),
                 mSurfaceId);
-            throw new IllegalViewOperationException(
-                "Trying to add a root view with an explicit id already set. React Native uses the"
-                    + " id field to track react tags and will overwrite this field. If that is"
-                    + " fine, explicitly overwrite the id field to View.NO_ID before calling"
-                    + " addRootView.");
+            // This behavior can not be guaranteed in hybrid apps that have a native android layer
+            // over
+            // which reactRootViews are added and the native views need to have ids on them in order
+            // to
+            // work.
+            // Hence this can cause unnecessary crashes at runtime for hybrid apps.
+            // So converting this to a soft exception such that pure react-native devs can still see
+            // the
+            // warning while hybrid apps continue to run without crashes
+            ReactSoftExceptionLogger.logSoftException(
+                TAG,
+                new IllegalViewOperationException(
+                    "Trying to add a root view with an explicit id already set. React Native uses"
+                        + " the id field to track react tags and will overwrite this field. If that"
+                        + " is fine, explicitly overwrite the id field to View.NO_ID before calling"
+                        + " addRootView."));
           }
           rootView.setId(mSurfaceId);