diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/api/ReactAndroid.api b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/api/ReactAndroid.api
index 6a14ffd1705780..cfdade228fc841 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/api/ReactAndroid.api
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/api/ReactAndroid.api
@@ -7732,6 +7732,7 @@ public class com/facebook/react/views/textinput/ReactEditText : androidx/appcomp
 	public fun setBorderStyle (Ljava/lang/String;)V
 	public fun setBorderWidth (IF)V
 	public fun setContentSizeWatcher (Lcom/facebook/react/views/textinput/ContentSizeWatcher;)V
+	public fun setContextMenuHidden (Z)V
 	public fun setDisableFullscreenUI (Z)V
 	public fun setFontFamily (Ljava/lang/String;)V
 	public fun setFontFeatureSettings (Ljava/lang/String;)V
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/textinput/ReactEditText.java b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/textinput/ReactEditText.java
index 014e0b489dd340..92cd700113c86e 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/textinput/ReactEditText.java
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/textinput/ReactEditText.java
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ public class ReactEditText extends AppCompatEditText {
   private int mFontWeight = ReactConstants.UNSET;
   private int mFontStyle = ReactConstants.UNSET;
   private boolean mAutoFocus = false;
+  private boolean mContextMenuHidden = false;
   private boolean mDidAttachToWindow = false;
   private @Nullable String mPlaceholder = null;
 
@@ -191,6 +192,9 @@ public boolean performAccessibilityAction(View host, int action, Bundle args) {
            */
           @Override
           public boolean onCreateActionMode(ActionMode mode, Menu menu) {
+            if (mContextMenuHidden) {
+              return false;
+            }
             menu.removeItem(android.R.id.pasteAsPlainText);
             return true;
           }
@@ -1121,6 +1125,10 @@ public void setAutoFocus(boolean autoFocus) {
     mAutoFocus = autoFocus;
   }
 
+  public void setContextMenuHidden(boolean contextMenuHidden) {
+    mContextMenuHidden = contextMenuHidden;
+  }
+
   protected void applyTextAttributes() {
     // In general, the `getEffective*` functions return `Float.NaN` if the
     // property hasn't been set.
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/textinput/ReactTextInputManager.java b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/textinput/ReactTextInputManager.java
index 2c225da1554890..a0e92290e417c6 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/textinput/ReactTextInputManager.java
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/textinput/ReactTextInputManager.java
@@ -651,14 +651,7 @@ && shouldHideCursorForEmailTextInput()) {
 
   @ReactProp(name = "contextMenuHidden", defaultBoolean = false)
   public void setContextMenuHidden(ReactEditText view, boolean contextMenuHidden) {
-    final boolean _contextMenuHidden = contextMenuHidden;
-    view.setOnLongClickListener(
-        new View.OnLongClickListener() {
-          public boolean onLongClick(View v) {
-            return _contextMenuHidden;
-          }
-          ;
-        });
+    view.setContextMenuHidden(contextMenuHidden);
   }
 
   @ReactProp(name = "selectTextOnFocus", defaultBoolean = false)