diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/ReactTextView.java b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/ReactTextView.java
index b8150596cc0..b72e987d439 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/ReactTextView.java
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/ReactTextView.java
@@ -542,7 +542,16 @@ public class ReactTextView extends AppCompatTextView implements ReactCompoundVie
   @Override
   public void onAttachedToWindow() {
     super.onAttachedToWindow();
-    setTextIsSelectable(mTextIsSelectable);
+
+    // This is a workaround to ensure the text becomes selectable as it doesn't work if we call
+    // `setTextIsSelectable(true)` directly when setTextIsSelectable was already true.
+    if (mTextIsSelectable) {
+      setTextIsSelectable(false);
+      setTextIsSelectable(true);
+    } else {
+      setTextIsSelectable(false);
+    }
+
     if (mContainsImages && getText() instanceof Spanned) {
       Spanned text = (Spanned) getText();
       TextInlineImageSpan[] spans = text.getSpans(0, text.length(), TextInlineImageSpan.class);