diff --git a/packages/react-native/React/Fabric/RCTSurfacePresenter.mm b/packages/react-native/React/Fabric/RCTSurfacePresenter.mm
index 11452ab5602d..dbea5607fb98 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/React/Fabric/RCTSurfacePresenter.mm
+++ b/packages/react-native/React/Fabric/RCTSurfacePresenter.mm
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
 #import <React/RCTFabricSurface.h>
 #import <React/RCTFollyConvert.h>
 #import <React/RCTI18nUtil.h>
-#import <React/RCTInitializeUIKitProxies.h>
 #import <React/RCTMountingManager.h>
 #import <React/RCTMountingManagerDelegate.h>
 #import <React/RCTScheduler.h>
@@ -65,7 +64,6 @@ - (instancetype)initWithContextContainer:(ContextContainer::Shared)contextContai
               bridgelessBindingsExecutor:(std::optional<RuntimeExecutor>)bridgelessBindingsExecutor
 {
   if (self = [super init]) {
-    RCTInitializeUIKitProxies();
     assert(contextContainer && "RuntimeExecutor must be not null.");
     _runtimeExecutor = runtimeExecutor;
     _bridgelessBindingsExecutor = bridgelessBindingsExecutor;
diff --git a/packages/react-native/React/Fabric/Surface/RCTFabricSurface.mm b/packages/react-native/React/Fabric/Surface/RCTFabricSurface.mm
index 7b3ce5918ce5..3a9c5a939d1d 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/React/Fabric/Surface/RCTFabricSurface.mm
+++ b/packages/react-native/React/Fabric/Surface/RCTFabricSurface.mm
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 #import <React/RCTConversions.h>
 #import <React/RCTFollyConvert.h>
 #import <React/RCTI18nUtil.h>
+#import <React/RCTInitializeUIKitProxies.h>
 #import <React/RCTMountingManager.h>
 #import <React/RCTSurfaceDelegate.h>
 #import <React/RCTSurfaceRootView.h>
@@ -54,6 +55,7 @@ - (instancetype)initWithSurfacePresenter:(RCTSurfacePresenter *)surfacePresenter
                        initialProperties:(NSDictionary *)initialProperties
 {
   if (self = [super init]) {
+    RCTInitializeUIKitProxies();
     _surfacePresenter = surfacePresenter;
 
     _surfaceHandler =