diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/uimanager/UIManager.cpp b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/uimanager/UIManager.cpp
index 6e909a73902b..e5ced223b613 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/uimanager/UIManager.cpp
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/uimanager/UIManager.cpp
@@ -268,7 +268,12 @@ ShadowNode::Shared UIManager::getNewestCloneOfShadowNode(
       shadowNode.getSurfaceId(), [&](const ShadowTree& shadowTree) {
         ancestorShadowNode = shadowTree.getCurrentRevision().rootShadowNode;
       });
+  return getNewestCloneOfShadowNodeFromAncestor(shadowNode, ancestorShadowNode);
+}
 
+ShadowNode::Shared UIManager::getNewestCloneOfShadowNodeFromAncestor(
+    const ShadowNode& shadowNode,
+    const ShadowNode::Shared& ancestorShadowNode) const {
   if (!ancestorShadowNode) {
     return nullptr;
   }
@@ -427,6 +432,8 @@ void UIManager::setNativeProps_DEPRECATED(
       family.getSurfaceId(), [&](const ShadowTree& shadowTree) {
         // The lambda passed to `commit` may be executed multiple times.
         // We need to create fresh copy of the `RawProps` object each time.
+        auto ancestorShadowNode =
+            shadowTree.getCurrentRevision().rootShadowNode;
         shadowTree.commit(
             [&](RootShadowNode const& oldRootShadowNode) {
               auto rootNode = oldRootShadowNode.cloneTree(
@@ -438,7 +445,9 @@ void UIManager::setNativeProps_DEPRECATED(
                         family.getSurfaceId(), *contextContainer_.get()};
                     auto props = componentDescriptor.cloneProps(
                         propsParserContext,
-                        getNewestCloneOfShadowNode(*shadowNode)->getProps(),
+                        getNewestCloneOfShadowNodeFromAncestor(
+                            *shadowNode, ancestorShadowNode)
+                            ->getProps(),
                         RawProps(rawProps));
 
                     return oldShadowNode.clone({/* .props = */ props});
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/uimanager/UIManager.h b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/uimanager/UIManager.h
index d32dca94b190..e0dc7e98a485 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/uimanager/UIManager.h
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/uimanager/UIManager.h
@@ -218,6 +218,10 @@ class UIManager final : public ShadowTreeDelegate {
       const jsi::Value& successCallback,
       const jsi::Value& failureCallback) const;
 
+  ShadowNode::Shared getNewestCloneOfShadowNodeFromAncestor(
+      const ShadowNode& shadowNode,
+      const ShadowNode::Shared& ancestorShadowNode) const;
+
   SharedComponentDescriptorRegistry componentDescriptorRegistry_;
   UIManagerDelegate* delegate_{};
   UIManagerAnimationDelegate* animationDelegate_{nullptr};