diff --git a/src/status_im/chat/screen.cljs b/src/status_im/chat/screen.cljs
index 05abcee0f8..85f51fab26 100644
--- a/src/status_im/chat/screen.cljs
+++ b/src/status_im/chat/screen.cljs
@@ -168,6 +168,7 @@
                 :renderScrollComponent     #(invertible-scroll-view (js->clj %))
                 :onEndReached              (when-not loaded? #(dispatch [:load-more-messages]))
                 :enableEmptySections       true
+                :keyboardShouldPersistTaps true
                 :dataSource                (to-datasource-inverted messages)}]))
 
 (defview chat []