From 5dab6fa65b43ef3b09e082defc9d1a26c4a3c28b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Andrzej=20Antoni=20Kwa=C5=9Bniewski?=
 <andrzej.kwasniewski@swmansion.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:19:28 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] fix it

---
 .../src/v3/hooks/callbacks/useReanimatedEventHandler.ts        | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/src/v3/hooks/callbacks/useReanimatedEventHandler.ts b/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/src/v3/hooks/callbacks/useReanimatedEventHandler.ts
index 012d18d3dc..e98737e85b 100644
--- a/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/src/v3/hooks/callbacks/useReanimatedEventHandler.ts
+++ b/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/src/v3/hooks/callbacks/useReanimatedEventHandler.ts
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ export function useReanimatedEventHandler<THandlerData>(
         onUpdate: workletNOOP,
       };
     }
-
     return handlers;
   }, [handlers]);
 
@@ -58,7 +57,7 @@ export function useReanimatedEventHandler<THandlerData>(
       'onGestureHandlerReanimatedStateChange',
       'onGestureHandlerReanimatedTouchEvent',
     ],
-    !!reanimatedHandler?.doDependenciesDiffer
+    __DEV__ ? true : !!reanimatedHandler?.doDependenciesDiffer
   );
 
   return reanimatedEvent;

From 01c5c68989f4ae0829ceb75159763e816564c0ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Andrzej=20Antoni=20Kwa=C5=9Bniewski?=
 <andrzej.kwasniewski@swmansion.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:57:16 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] cleaner fix

---
 .../src/v3/hooks/callbacks/useReanimatedEventHandler.ts       | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/src/v3/hooks/callbacks/useReanimatedEventHandler.ts b/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/src/v3/hooks/callbacks/useReanimatedEventHandler.ts
index e98737e85b..2f5cc5d65c 100644
--- a/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/src/v3/hooks/callbacks/useReanimatedEventHandler.ts
+++ b/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/src/v3/hooks/callbacks/useReanimatedEventHandler.ts
@@ -21,7 +21,9 @@ export function useReanimatedEventHandler<THandlerData>(
   reanimatedHandler: ReanimatedHandler<THandlerData> | undefined,
   changeEventCalculator: ChangeCalculatorType<THandlerData> | undefined
 ) {
+  let didUpdateHandlers = false;
   const workletizedHandlers = useMemo(() => {
+    didUpdateHandlers = true;
     // We don't want to call hooks conditionally, `useEvent` will be always called.
     // The only difference is whether we will send events to Reanimated or not.
     // The problem here is that if someone passes `Animated.event` as `onUpdate` prop,
@@ -57,7 +59,7 @@ export function useReanimatedEventHandler<THandlerData>(
       'onGestureHandlerReanimatedStateChange',
       'onGestureHandlerReanimatedTouchEvent',
     ],
-    __DEV__ ? true : !!reanimatedHandler?.doDependenciesDiffer
+    didUpdateHandlers || !!reanimatedHandler?.doDependenciesDiffer
   );
 
   return reanimatedEvent;