diff --git a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/textinput/ReactEditText.java b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/textinput/ReactEditText.java
index 30ac0b05276..d5f9c604229 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/textinput/ReactEditText.java
+++ b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/textinput/ReactEditText.java
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ import android.text.style.BackgroundColorSpan;
 import android.text.style.ForegroundColorSpan;
 import android.view.Gravity;
 import android.view.KeyEvent;
-import android.view.MotionEvent;
 import android.view.View;
 import android.view.inputmethod.InputMethodManager;
 import android.widget.EditText;
@@ -96,24 +95,6 @@ public class ReactEditText extends EditText {
     mKeyListener = new InternalKeyListener();
   }
 
-  /**
-   * Make sure multiline text input can be scrolled within a ScrollView
-   */
-  @Override
-  public boolean dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
-    switch (ev.getAction()) {
-      case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
-        // Disallow ScrollView to intercept touch events.
-        this.getParent().requestDisallowInterceptTouchEvent(true);
-        break;
-      case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
-        // Allow ScrollView to intercept touch events.
-        this.getParent().requestDisallowInterceptTouchEvent(false);
-        break;
-    }
-    return super.dispatchTouchEvent(ev);
-  }
-
   // After the text changes inside an EditText, TextView checks if a layout() has been requested.
   // If it has, it will not scroll the text to the end of the new text inserted, but wait for the
   // next layout() to be called. However, we do not perform a layout() after a requestLayout(), so