diff --git a/native/navigation/app-navigator.react.js b/native/navigation/app-navigator.react.js
--- a/native/navigation/app-navigator.react.js
+++ b/native/navigation/app-navigator.react.js
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 import HomeTabTip from './home-tab-tip.react.js';
 import IntroTip from './intro-tip.react.js';
 import MutedTabTip from './muted-tab-tip.react.js';
+import { NavContext } from './navigation-context.js';
 import NUXTipOverlayBackdrop from './nux-tip-overlay-backdrop.react.js';
 import { createOverlayNavigator } from './overlay-navigator.react.js';
 import type {
@@ -80,6 +81,8 @@
 function AppNavigator(props: AppNavigatorProps): React.Node {
   const { navigation } = props;
 
+  const navContext = React.useContext(NavContext);
+
   const fontsLoaded = useLoadCommFonts();
 
   const rootContext = React.useContext(RootContext);
@@ -96,7 +99,11 @@
     React.useState(splashScreenHasHidden);
 
   React.useEffect(() => {
-    if (localSplashScreenHasHidden || !fontsLoaded) {
+    if (
+      localSplashScreenHasHidden ||
+      !fontsLoaded ||
+      !navContext?.hasNavigatedToInitialState
+    ) {
       return;
     }
     splashScreenHasHidden = true;
@@ -108,7 +115,11 @@
         setLocalSplashScreenHasHidden(true);
       }
     })();
-  }, [localSplashScreenHasHidden, fontsLoaded]);
+  }, [
+    localSplashScreenHasHidden,
+    fontsLoaded,
+    navContext?.hasNavigatedToInitialState,
+  ]);
 
   let pushHandler;
   if (localSplashScreenHasHidden) {
diff --git a/native/navigation/navigation-context.js b/native/navigation/navigation-context.js
--- a/native/navigation/navigation-context.js
+++ b/native/navigation/navigation-context.js
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 export type NavContextType = {
   +state: PossiblyStaleNavigationState,
   +dispatch: (action: NavAction) => void,
+  +hasNavigatedToInitialState: boolean,
 };
 
 const NavContext: React.Context<?NavContextType> =
diff --git a/native/root.react.js b/native/root.react.js
--- a/native/root.react.js
+++ b/native/root.react.js
@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@
         | (PossiblyStaleNavigationState => GenericNavigationAction),
     ) => void>();
   const navStateInitializedRef = React.useRef(false);
+  const hasNavigatedToInitialState = React.useRef(false);
 
   // We call this here to start the loading process
   // We gate the UI on the fonts loading in AppNavigator
@@ -152,6 +153,7 @@
     const updatedNavContext = {
       state: navStateRef.current,
       dispatch: navDispatchRef.current,
+      hasNavigatedToInitialState: hasNavigatedToInitialState.current,
     };
     setNavContext(updatedNavContext);
     setGlobalNavContext(updatedNavContext);
@@ -166,6 +168,7 @@
     void (async () => {
       let loadedState = initialState;
       if (__DEV__) {
+        hasNavigatedToInitialState.current = true;
         try {
           const navStateString = await AsyncStorage.getItem(
             navStateAsyncStorageKey,
@@ -217,6 +220,7 @@
       invariant(state, 'nav state should be non-null');
       const prevState = navStateRef.current;
       navStateRef.current = state;
+      hasNavigatedToInitialState.current = true;
       updateNavContext();
 
       const queuedActions = queuedActionsRef.current;