diff --git a/native/chat/chat-input-bar.react.js b/native/chat/chat-input-bar.react.js
--- a/native/chat/chat-input-bar.react.js
+++ b/native/chat/chat-input-bar.react.js
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@
 import type { LayoutEvent } from '../types/react-native';
 import { type AnimatedViewStyle, AnimatedView } from '../types/styles';
 import { runTiming } from '../utils/animation-utils';
+import { waitForAnimationFrameFlush } from '../utils/timers';
 import { ChatContext } from './chat-context';
 import type { ChatNavigationProp } from './chat.react';
 
@@ -722,20 +723,54 @@
     });
   }, 400);
 
-  focusAndUpdateText = (text: string) => {
-    const { textInput } = this;
-    if (!textInput) {
-      return;
-    }
+  focusAndUpdateTextAndSelection = (text: string, selection: Selection) => {
+    // On iOS, the update of text below will trigger a selection change which
+    // will overwrite our update of selection. To address this, we schedule a
+    // second update of selection after waiting for the animation frame to
+    // flush. We also make sure that the overwriting selection change is not
+    // saved to our selection state by ignoring selection updates until our
+    // second update.
+    this.setState(
+      {
+        text,
+        textEdited: true,
+        selection,
+        controlSelection: true,
+      },
+      async () => {
+        if (Platform.OS !== 'ios') {
+          return;
+        }
+        await waitForAnimationFrameFlush();
+        this.setState({
+          selection,
+          controlSelection: true,
+        });
+      },
+    );
+    this.saveDraft(text);
+
+    this.focusAndUpdateButtonsVisibility();
+  };
 
+  focusAndUpdateText = (text: string) => {
     const currentText = this.state.text;
     if (!currentText.startsWith(text)) {
       const prependedText = text.concat(currentText);
       this.updateText(prependedText);
-      this.immediatelyShowSendButton();
-      this.immediatelyHideButtons();
     }
 
+    this.focusAndUpdateButtonsVisibility();
+  };
+
+  focusAndUpdateButtonsVisibility = () => {
+    const { textInput } = this;
+    if (!textInput) {
+      return;
+    }
+
+    this.immediatelyShowSendButton();
+    this.immediatelyHideButtons();
     textInput.focus();
   };