diff --git a/packages/react-native/React/Base/RCTUtils.mm b/packages/react-native/React/Base/RCTUtils.mm
index d2bf9ded0d1..6d89ba62303 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/React/Base/RCTUtils.mm
+++ b/packages/react-native/React/Base/RCTUtils.mm
@@ -431,7 +431,9 @@ CGSize RCTSwitchSize(void)
   static CGSize rctSwitchSize;
   static dispatch_once_t onceToken;
   dispatch_once(&onceToken, ^{
-    rctSwitchSize = [UISwitch new].intrinsicContentSize;
+    RCTUnsafeExecuteOnMainQueueSync(^{
+      rctSwitchSize = [UISwitch new].intrinsicContentSize;
+    });
   });
   return rctSwitchSize;
 }
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/switch/iosswitch/react/renderer/components/switch/IOSSwitchShadowNode.mm b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/switch/iosswitch/react/renderer/components/switch/IOSSwitchShadowNode.mm
index b38b0b0509c..d1981f17c06 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/switch/iosswitch/react/renderer/components/switch/IOSSwitchShadowNode.mm
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/switch/iosswitch/react/renderer/components/switch/IOSSwitchShadowNode.mm
@@ -20,7 +20,9 @@ Size SwitchShadowNode::measureContent(
     const LayoutConstraints & /*layoutConstraints*/) const
 {
   CGSize uiSwitchSize = RCTSwitchSize();
-  return {.width = uiSwitchSize.width, .height = uiSwitchSize.height};
+  // Apple has some error when returning the width of the component and it doesn't
+  // account for the borders.
+  return {.width = uiSwitchSize.width + 2, .height = uiSwitchSize.height};
 }
 
 } // namespace facebook::react