diff --git a/packages/driver/cypress/e2e/commands/actions/type.cy.js b/packages/driver/cypress/e2e/commands/actions/type.cy.js
index 301f660b098e..01cc7298adf4 100644
--- a/packages/driver/cypress/e2e/commands/actions/type.cy.js
+++ b/packages/driver/cypress/e2e/commands/actions/type.cy.js
@@ -958,25 +958,6 @@ describe('src/cy/commands/actions/type - #type', () => {
       .should('have.value', 'baroo')
     })
 
-    // WebKit will select all input content on focus. This causes our
-    // cursor placement logic to be ignored, as we interpret the default
-    // selection as a user-provided selection that we do not want to override.
-    // We work around this by preventing the default selection on focus using
-    // our own capture-phase 'focus' event handler; this test ensures that user-set
-    // capture-phase events continue to function as expected for the purpose
-    // of selection updates.
-    it('respects changed selection in focus handler during capture phase', () => {
-      cy.get('#input-without-value')
-      .then(($el) => {
-        $el.val('foo')
-        $el.get(0).addEventListener('focus', (e) => {
-          e.currentTarget.setSelectionRange(0, 1)
-        }, { capture: true })
-      })
-      .type('bar')
-      .should('have.value', 'baroo')
-    })
-
     it('overwrites text when selectAll in mouseup handler', () => {
       cy.$$('#input-without-value').val('0').mouseup(function () {
         $(this).select()
diff --git a/packages/driver/src/cy/focused.ts b/packages/driver/src/cy/focused.ts
index 2a685acd46a1..d20f9e61475d 100644
--- a/packages/driver/src/cy/focused.ts
+++ b/packages/driver/src/cy/focused.ts
@@ -144,9 +144,9 @@ export const create = (state: StateFunc) => ({
       // and persist it, leaving the selection contents to be overwritten rather than appended to
       // on subsequent actions.
       //
-      // In order to avoid this behavior, we explicitly set the selection range with the current
-      // selectionStart/selectionEnd values. This will bypass the default select-all behavior, even though
-      // logically it looks like a no-op.
+      // To avoid this behavior, we explicitly set the selection range with the current
+      // selectionStart/selectionEnd values prior to calling focus. This will bypass the
+      // default select-all behavior even though logically it looks like a no-op.
       try {
         el.setSelectionRange(el.selectionStart, el.selectionEnd)
       } catch (e) {