diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/api/ReactAndroid.api b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/api/ReactAndroid.api
index dd22a0e6747..3ac2275e0de 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/api/ReactAndroid.api
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/api/ReactAndroid.api
@@ -6278,7 +6278,7 @@ public class com/facebook/react/views/scroll/ReactHorizontalScrollView : android
 	public fun addFocusables (Ljava/util/ArrayList;II)V
 	public fun arrowScroll (I)Z
 	public fun canScrollHorizontally (I)Z
-	public fun dispatchGenericPointerEvent (Landroid/view/MotionEvent;)Z
+	public fun dispatchGenericMotionEvent (Landroid/view/MotionEvent;)Z
 	public fun draw (Landroid/graphics/Canvas;)V
 	public fun executeKeyEvent (Landroid/view/KeyEvent;)Z
 	public fun flashScrollIndicators ()V
@@ -6404,7 +6404,7 @@ public class com/facebook/react/views/scroll/ReactScrollView : android/widget/Sc
 	public fun <init> (Landroid/content/Context;)V
 	public fun <init> (Landroid/content/Context;Lcom/facebook/react/views/scroll/FpsListener;)V
 	public fun abortAnimation ()V
-	public fun dispatchGenericPointerEvent (Landroid/view/MotionEvent;)Z
+	public fun dispatchGenericMotionEvent (Landroid/view/MotionEvent;)Z
 	public fun draw (Landroid/graphics/Canvas;)V
 	public fun executeKeyEvent (Landroid/view/KeyEvent;)Z
 	public fun flashScrollIndicators ()V
@@ -7567,7 +7567,7 @@ public class com/facebook/react/views/view/ReactViewGroup : android/view/ViewGro
 	public fun addView (Landroid/view/View;ILandroid/view/ViewGroup$LayoutParams;)V
 	protected fun addViewInLayout (Landroid/view/View;ILandroid/view/ViewGroup$LayoutParams;Z)Z
 	protected fun dispatchDraw (Landroid/graphics/Canvas;)V
-	public fun dispatchGenericPointerEvent (Landroid/view/MotionEvent;)Z
+	public fun dispatchGenericMotionEvent (Landroid/view/MotionEvent;)Z
 	public fun dispatchProvideStructure (Landroid/view/ViewStructure;)V
 	protected fun dispatchSetPressed (Z)V
 	protected fun drawChild (Landroid/graphics/Canvas;Landroid/view/View;J)Z
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/scroll/ReactHorizontalScrollView.java b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/scroll/ReactHorizontalScrollView.java
index 7dbcb788c3a..7e52edb5a2c 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/scroll/ReactHorizontalScrollView.java
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/scroll/ReactHorizontalScrollView.java
@@ -640,13 +640,13 @@ public class ReactHorizontalScrollView extends HorizontalScrollView
   }
 
   @Override
-  public boolean dispatchGenericPointerEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
-    // We do not dispatch the pointer event if its children are not supposed to receive it
+  public boolean dispatchGenericMotionEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
+    // We do not dispatch the motion event if its children are not supposed to receive it
     if (!PointerEvents.canChildrenBeTouchTarget(mPointerEvents)) {
       return false;
     }
 
-    return super.dispatchGenericPointerEvent(ev);
+    return super.dispatchGenericMotionEvent(ev);
   }
 
   @Override
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/scroll/ReactScrollView.java b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/scroll/ReactScrollView.java
index 49f7326f0a2..50fc9b0bc43 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/scroll/ReactScrollView.java
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/scroll/ReactScrollView.java
@@ -463,13 +463,13 @@ public class ReactScrollView extends ScrollView
   }
 
   @Override
-  public boolean dispatchGenericPointerEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
-    // We do not dispatch the pointer event if its children are not supposed to receive it
+  public boolean dispatchGenericMotionEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
+    // We do not dispatch the motion event if its children are not supposed to receive it
     if (!PointerEvents.canChildrenBeTouchTarget(mPointerEvents)) {
       return false;
     }
 
-    return super.dispatchGenericPointerEvent(ev);
+    return super.dispatchGenericMotionEvent(ev);
   }
 
   @Override
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/view/ReactViewGroup.java b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/view/ReactViewGroup.java
index af5dea7170d..bc5d22b34cc 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/view/ReactViewGroup.java
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/view/ReactViewGroup.java
@@ -284,13 +284,13 @@ public class ReactViewGroup extends ViewGroup
   }
 
   @Override
-  public boolean dispatchGenericPointerEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
-    // We do not dispatch the pointer event if its children are not supposed to receive it
+  public boolean dispatchGenericMotionEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
+    // We do not dispatch the motion event if its children are not supposed to receive it
     if (!PointerEvents.canChildrenBeTouchTarget(mPointerEvents)) {
       return false;
     }
 
-    return super.dispatchGenericPointerEvent(ev);
+    return super.dispatchGenericMotionEvent(ev);
   }
 
   /**