diff --git a/packages/react-native/React/Fabric/Mounting/ComponentViews/View/RCTViewComponentView.mm b/packages/react-native/React/Fabric/Mounting/ComponentViews/View/RCTViewComponentView.mm
index 473eab307dca..aa827366d07d 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/React/Fabric/Mounting/ComponentViews/View/RCTViewComponentView.mm
+++ b/packages/react-native/React/Fabric/Mounting/ComponentViews/View/RCTViewComponentView.mm
@@ -2323,6 +2323,14 @@ - (void)mouseExited:(NSEvent *)event
   [self emitMouseEvent:MouseLeave];
 }
 
+- (void)mouseDown:(NSEvent *)event
+{
+  // Accept mouseDown: the surface's touch handler, a gesture recognizer, has already taken the
+  // press. NSView's default passes it on to an overlapping sibling view beneath the point, and a
+  // text field there starts a tracking loop that consumes the mouseUp, so a button drawn over a
+  // TextInput would never be pressed.
+}
+
 - (void)mouseUp:(NSEvent *)event
 {
   BOOL hasDoubleClickEventHandler = _props->hostPlatformEvents[HostPlatformViewEvents::Offset::DoubleClick];