diff --git a/native/chat/message-list-container.react.js b/native/chat/message-list-container.react.js
--- a/native/chat/message-list-container.react.js
+++ b/native/chat/message-list-container.react.js
@@ -265,6 +265,21 @@
       'threadInfo must be specified in messageListContainer',
     );
 
+    const inputState = React.useContext(InputStateContext);
+    invariant(inputState, 'inputState should be set in MessageListContainer');
+
+    const isFocused = props.navigation.isFocused();
+    const { setPendingThreadUpdateHandler } = inputState;
+    React.useEffect(() => {
+      if (!isFocused) {
+        return;
+      }
+      setPendingThreadUpdateHandler(threadInfo.id, setBaseThreadInfo);
+      return () => {
+        setPendingThreadUpdateHandler(threadInfo.id, undefined);
+      };
+    }, [setPendingThreadUpdateHandler, isFocused, threadInfo.id]);
+
     const { setParams } = props.navigation;
     const navigationStack = useNavigationState(state => state.routes);
     React.useEffect(() => {
@@ -278,8 +293,6 @@
       }
     }, [isSearching, navigationStack, setParams, threadInfo]);
 
-    const inputState = React.useContext(InputStateContext);
-    invariant(inputState, 'inputState should be set in MessageListContainer');
     const hideSearch = React.useCallback(() => {
       setBaseThreadInfo(threadInfo);
       setParams({ searching: false });
diff --git a/native/input/input-state-container.react.js b/native/input/input-state-container.react.js
--- a/native/input/input-state-container.react.js
+++ b/native/input/input-state-container.react.js
@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@
   activeURIs = new Map();
   replyCallbacks: Array<(message: string) => void> = [];
   pendingThreadCreations = new Map<string, Promise<string>>();
+  pendingThreadUpdateHandlers = new Map<string, (ThreadInfo) => mixed>();
 
   // When the user sends a multimedia message that triggers the creation of a
   // sidebar, the sidebar gets created right away, but the message needs to wait
@@ -389,6 +390,7 @@
       unregisterSendCallback: this.unregisterSendCallback,
       uploadInProgress: this.uploadInProgress,
       reportURIDisplayed: this.reportURIDisplayed,
+      setPendingThreadUpdateHandler: this.setPendingThreadUpdateHandler,
     }),
   );
 
@@ -447,6 +449,12 @@
         messageInfo.text,
         viewerID,
       );
+      if (threadInfo !== inputThreadInfo) {
+        const pendingThreadUpdateHandler = this.pendingThreadUpdateHandlers.get(
+          threadInfo.id,
+        );
+        pendingThreadUpdateHandler?.(threadInfo);
+      }
     }
 
     let newThreadID = null;
@@ -1435,6 +1443,20 @@
     });
   }
 
+  setPendingThreadUpdateHandler = (
+    threadID: string,
+    pendingThreadUpdateHandler: ?(ThreadInfo) => mixed,
+  ) => {
+    if (!pendingThreadUpdateHandler) {
+      this.pendingThreadUpdateHandlers.delete(threadID);
+    } else {
+      this.pendingThreadUpdateHandlers.set(
+        threadID,
+        pendingThreadUpdateHandler,
+      );
+    }
+  };
+
   render() {
     const inputState = this.inputStateSelector(this.state);
     return (
diff --git a/native/input/input-state.js b/native/input/input-state.js
--- a/native/input/input-state.js
+++ b/native/input/input-state.js
@@ -46,6 +46,10 @@
   +unregisterSendCallback: (() => void) => void,
   +uploadInProgress: () => boolean,
   +reportURIDisplayed: (uri: string, loaded: boolean) => void,
+  +setPendingThreadUpdateHandler: (
+    threadID: string,
+    pendingThreadUpdateHandler: ?(ThreadInfo) => mixed,
+  ) => void,
 };
 
 const InputStateContext: React.Context<?InputState> =