From 8bd745a1ceac33b968518741acd1b7ce9207031d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Qutrek <235843705+qutrek@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 02:36:15 +0300
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] [iOS] Resolve natural text alignment from the layout
 direction for LTR as well as RTL

---
 .../react/renderer/textlayoutmanager/RCTAttributedTextUtils.mm  | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/textlayoutmanager/platform/ios/react/renderer/textlayoutmanager/RCTAttributedTextUtils.mm b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/textlayoutmanager/platform/ios/react/renderer/textlayoutmanager/RCTAttributedTextUtils.mm
index 1a33fa977d82..a3ad0ba00df3 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/textlayoutmanager/platform/ios/react/renderer/textlayoutmanager/RCTAttributedTextUtils.mm
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/textlayoutmanager/platform/ios/react/renderer/textlayoutmanager/RCTAttributedTextUtils.mm
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ inline static CGFloat RCTEffectiveFontSizeMultiplierFromTextAttributes(const Tex
   NSMutableParagraphStyle *paragraphStyle = [NSMutableParagraphStyle new];
   BOOL isParagraphStyleUsed = NO;
   const bool isRTL = textAttributes.layoutDirection == LayoutDirection::RightToLeft;
-  if (textAttributes.alignment.has_value() || isRTL) {
+  if (textAttributes.alignment.has_value() || textAttributes.layoutDirection.has_value()) {
     TextAlignment textAlignment =
         RCTResolveTextAlignment(textAttributes.alignment.value_or(TextAlignment::Natural), isRTL);
 

From bdd8fbeeb67244c889f94cc7d4d27c917231db74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Qutrek <235843705+qutrek@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:30:53 +0300
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Move isRTL inside the if

---
 .../react/renderer/textlayoutmanager/RCTAttributedTextUtils.mm  | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/textlayoutmanager/platform/ios/react/renderer/textlayoutmanager/RCTAttributedTextUtils.mm b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/textlayoutmanager/platform/ios/react/renderer/textlayoutmanager/RCTAttributedTextUtils.mm
index a3ad0ba00df3..791d8d129473 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/textlayoutmanager/platform/ios/react/renderer/textlayoutmanager/RCTAttributedTextUtils.mm
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/textlayoutmanager/platform/ios/react/renderer/textlayoutmanager/RCTAttributedTextUtils.mm
@@ -218,8 +218,8 @@ inline static CGFloat RCTEffectiveFontSizeMultiplierFromTextAttributes(const Tex
   // Paragraph Style
   NSMutableParagraphStyle *paragraphStyle = [NSMutableParagraphStyle new];
   BOOL isParagraphStyleUsed = NO;
-  const bool isRTL = textAttributes.layoutDirection == LayoutDirection::RightToLeft;
   if (textAttributes.alignment.has_value() || textAttributes.layoutDirection.has_value()) {
+    const bool isRTL = textAttributes.layoutDirection == LayoutDirection::RightToLeft;
     TextAlignment textAlignment =
         RCTResolveTextAlignment(textAttributes.alignment.value_or(TextAlignment::Natural), isRTL);