diff --git a/packages/react-native/Libraries/Animated/__tests__/AnimatedBackend-itest.js b/packages/react-native/Libraries/Animated/__tests__/AnimatedBackend-itest.js
index 29eaab4df765..f581950bf029 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/Libraries/Animated/__tests__/AnimatedBackend-itest.js
+++ b/packages/react-native/Libraries/Animated/__tests__/AnimatedBackend-itest.js
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
  * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
  *
- * @fantom_flags useSharedAnimatedBackend:true
+ * @fantom_flags useSharedAnimatedBackend:true updateRuntimeShadowNodeReferencesOnCommitThread:*
  * @flow strict-local
  * @format
  */
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ import type {HostInstance} from 'react-native';
 
 import ensureInstance from '../../../src/private/__tests__/utilities/ensureInstance';
 import * as Fantom from '@react-native/fantom';
-import {createRef, useEffect, useState} from 'react';
-import {Animated, useAnimatedValue} from 'react-native';
+import {createRef, memo, useEffect, useMemo, useState} from 'react';
+import {Animated, View, useAnimatedValue} from 'react-native';
 import {allowStyleProp} from 'react-native/Libraries/Animated/NativeAnimatedAllowlist';
 import ReactNativeElement from 'react-native/src/private/webapis/dom/nodes/ReactNativeElement';
 
@@ -468,3 +468,90 @@ test('animate width, height and opacity at once', () => {
     root.getRenderedOutput({props: ['width', 'height', 'opacity']}).toJSX(),
   ).toEqual(<rn-view height="200.000000" opacity="0.5" width="200.000000" />);
 });
+
+test('animate width with memo and rerender (js sync test)', () => {
+  const viewRef = createRef<HostInstance>();
+  allowStyleProp('width');
+
+  let _widthAnimation;
+  let _setState;
+
+  function useAnimation() {
+    const animatedValue = useAnimatedValue(100);
+
+    useEffect(() => {
+      const animation = Animated.timing(animatedValue, {
+        toValue: 200,
+        duration: 1000,
+        useNativeDriver: true,
+      });
+      _widthAnimation = animation;
+      animation.start();
+
+      return () => {
+        animation.stop();
+      };
+    }, [animatedValue]);
+
+    return animatedValue;
+  }
+
+  const AnimatedComponent = memo(() => {
+    const animatedValue = useAnimation();
+
+    const animatedStyle = useMemo(() => {
+      return {
+        width: animatedValue,
+      };
+    }, [animatedValue]);
+
+    return (
+      <Animated.View
+        ref={viewRef}
+        style={[{backgroundColor: 'green', height: 100}, animatedStyle]}
+      />
+    );
+  });
+
+  function MyApp() {
+    const [state, setState] = useState(0);
+    _setState = setState;
+
+    return (
+      <>
+        <View key={state} />
+        <AnimatedComponent />
+      </>
+    );
+  }
+
+  const root = Fantom.createRoot();
+
+  Fantom.runTask(() => {
+    root.render(<MyApp />);
+  });
+
+  expect(root.getRenderedOutput({props: ['width', 'height']}).toJSX()).toEqual(
+    <rn-view height="100.000000" width="100.000000" />,
+  );
+
+  Fantom.unstable_produceFramesForDuration(1000);
+
+  // TODO: this shouldn't be necessary since animation should be stopped after duration
+  Fantom.runTask(() => {
+    _widthAnimation?.stop();
+  });
+
+  expect(root.getRenderedOutput({props: ['width']}).toJSX()).toEqual(
+    <rn-view width="200.000000" />,
+  );
+
+  // Trigger rerender after animation completes to see if animation state gets overwritten
+  Fantom.runTask(() => {
+    _setState(s => 1 - s);
+  });
+
+  expect(root.getRenderedOutput({props: ['width']}).toJSX()).toEqual(
+    <rn-view width="200.000000" />,
+  );
+});
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/animationbackend/AnimationBackend.cpp b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/animationbackend/AnimationBackend.cpp
index 5bff2e5d119e..3ad43b8e0210 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/animationbackend/AnimationBackend.cpp
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/animationbackend/AnimationBackend.cpp
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 #include "AnimatedPropsRegistry.h"
 
 #include <react/debug/react_native_assert.h>
+#include <react/featureflags/ReactNativeFeatureFlags.h>
 #include <react/renderer/animationbackend/AnimatedPropsSerializer.h>
 #include <react/renderer/graphics/Color.h>
 #include <chrono>
@@ -152,8 +153,7 @@ void AnimationBackend::commitUpdates(
                         return shadowNode.clone(
                             {.props = newProps,
                              .children = fragment.children,
-                             .state = shadowNode.getState(),
-                             .runtimeShadowNodeReference = false});
+                             .state = shadowNode.getState()});
                       }));
             },
             {.mountSynchronously = true});
@@ -177,24 +177,45 @@ void AnimationBackend::requestAsyncFlushForSurfaces(
   react_native_assert(
       jsInvoker_ != nullptr ||
       surfaces.empty() && "jsInvoker_ was not provided");
+  std::weak_ptr<AnimatedPropsRegistry> weakAnimatedPropsRegistry =
+      animatedPropsRegistry_;
   for (const auto& surfaceId : surfaces) {
     // perform an empty commit on the js thread, to force the commit hook to
     // push updated shadow nodes to react through RSNRU
-    jsInvoker_->invokeAsync([weakUIManager = uiManager_, surfaceId]() {
-      auto uiManager = weakUIManager.lock();
-      if (!uiManager) {
-        return;
-      }
-      uiManager->getShadowTreeRegistry().visit(
-          surfaceId, [](const ShadowTree& shadowTree) {
-            shadowTree.commit(
-                [](const RootShadowNode& oldRootShadowNode) {
-                  return std::static_pointer_cast<RootShadowNode>(
-                      oldRootShadowNode.ShadowNode::clone({}));
-                },
-                {.source = ShadowTreeCommitSource::AnimationEndSync});
-          });
-    });
+    jsInvoker_->invokeAsync(
+        [weakUIManager = uiManager_, surfaceId, weakAnimatedPropsRegistry]() {
+          auto uiManager = weakUIManager.lock();
+          if (!uiManager) {
+            return;
+          }
+          uiManager->getShadowTreeRegistry().visit(
+              surfaceId,
+              [weakAnimatedPropsRegistry](const ShadowTree& shadowTree) {
+                auto result = shadowTree.commit(
+                    [weakAnimatedPropsRegistry](
+                        const RootShadowNode& oldRootShadowNode) {
+                      return std::static_pointer_cast<RootShadowNode>(
+                          oldRootShadowNode.ShadowNode::clone({}));
+                    },
+                    {.source = ShadowTreeCommitSource::AnimationEndSync});
+                // To clear the registry, the updates neeed to be propagated to
+                // React with RSNRU. Without
+                // updateRuntimeShadowNodeReferencesOnCommitThread this won't
+                // happen if we do any commits on the main thread, since the
+                // runtimeShadowNodeReference_ is not propagated to nodes cloned
+                // outside of the JS thread. So when the flag is disabled we
+                // keep the updates in the registry and we will reapply them in
+                // a commit hook triggered by a rerender.
+                if (result == ShadowTree::CommitStatus::Succeeded &&
+                    ReactNativeFeatureFlags::
+                        updateRuntimeShadowNodeReferencesOnCommitThread()) {
+                  if (auto animatedPropsRegistry =
+                          weakAnimatedPropsRegistry.lock()) {
+                    animatedPropsRegistry->clear(shadowTree.getSurfaceId());
+                  }
+                }
+              });
+        });
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/private/react-native-fantom/tester/src/TesterAnimationChoreographer.cpp b/private/react-native-fantom/tester/src/TesterAnimationChoreographer.cpp
index b9d32f853f1f..8c2c535911dd 100644
--- a/private/react-native-fantom/tester/src/TesterAnimationChoreographer.cpp
+++ b/private/react-native-fantom/tester/src/TesterAnimationChoreographer.cpp
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 
 #include "TesterAnimationChoreographer.h"
 #include <react/renderer/core/ReactPrimitives.h>
+#include <react/renderer/core/ShadowNode.h>
 #include <react/runtime/ReactInstanceConfig.h>
 
 namespace facebook::react {
@@ -20,7 +21,9 @@ void TesterAnimationChoreographer::pause() {
 
 void TesterAnimationChoreographer::runUITick(AnimationTimestamp timestamp) {
   if (!isPaused_) {
+    ShadowNode::setUseRuntimeShadowNodeReferenceUpdateOnThread(false);
     onAnimationFrame(timestamp);
+    ShadowNode::setUseRuntimeShadowNodeReferenceUpdateOnThread(true);
   }
 }