diff --git a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/ReactTextView.java b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/ReactTextView.java
index 63b820482..11f1aee50 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/ReactTextView.java
+++ b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/ReactTextView.java
@@ -143,7 +143,6 @@ public class ReactTextView extends TextView implements ReactCompoundView {
   @Override
   public void onAttachedToWindow() {
     super.onAttachedToWindow();
-    setTextIsSelectable(mTextIsSelectable);
     if (mContainsImages && getText() instanceof Spanned) {
       Spanned text = (Spanned) getText();
       TextInlineImageSpan[] spans = text.getSpans(0, text.length(), TextInlineImageSpan.class);
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 497a3ec0f..61f8d0d49 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
@@ -396,7 +396,6 @@ public class ReactEditText extends EditText {
   @Override
   public void onAttachedToWindow() {
     super.onAttachedToWindow();
-    setTextIsSelectable(mTextIsSelectable);
     if (mContainsImages && getText() instanceof Spanned) {
       Spanned text = (Spanned) getText();
       TextInlineImageSpan[] spans = text.getSpans(0, text.length(), TextInlineImageSpan.class);