diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/imagemanager/platform/ios/react/renderer/imagemanager/RCTImagePrimitivesConversions.h b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/imagemanager/platform/ios/react/renderer/imagemanager/RCTImagePrimitivesConversions.h
index b5f61f8a4ee..0aa6a75b92e 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/imagemanager/platform/ios/react/renderer/imagemanager/RCTImagePrimitivesConversions.h
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/imagemanager/platform/ios/react/renderer/imagemanager/RCTImagePrimitivesConversions.h
@@ -64,7 +64,8 @@ inline static NSURL *NSURLFromImageSource(const facebook::react::ImageSource &im
 
     if ([urlString rangeOfString:@":"].location != NSNotFound) {
       // The URL has a scheme.
-      urlString = [urlString stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
+      urlString =
+          [urlString stringByAddingPercentEncodingWithAllowedCharacters:[NSCharacterSet URLQueryAllowedCharacterSet]];
       url = [NSURL URLWithString:urlString];
       return url;
     }