diff --git a/modules/react-native-ui-text-view/ios/RNUITextView.swift b/modules/react-native-ui-text-view/ios/RNUITextView.swift
index 10c283de5e..ba3ab8257a 100644
--- a/modules/react-native-ui-text-view/ios/RNUITextView.swift
+++ b/modules/react-native-ui-text-view/ios/RNUITextView.swift
@@ -9,7 +9,11 @@ class RNUITextView: UIView {
   }
 
   override init(frame: CGRect) {
-    self.textView = UITextView()
+    if #available(iOS 16.0, *) {
+      textView = UITextView(usingTextLayoutManager: false)
+    } else {
+      textView = UITextView()
+    }
 
     // Disable scrolling
     textView.isScrollEnabled = false
@@ -23,9 +27,14 @@ class RNUITextView: UIView {
 
     // Init
     super.init(frame: frame)
+    self.clipsToBounds = true
 
     // Add the view
     addSubview(textView)
+
+    let tapGestureRecognizer = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(callOnPress(_:)))
+    tapGestureRecognizer.isEnabled = true
+    textView.addGestureRecognizer(tapGestureRecognizer)
   }
 
   required init?(coder: NSCoder) {
@@ -39,10 +48,6 @@ class RNUITextView: UIView {
     }
   }
 
-  override func didUpdateReactSubviews() {
-    // Do nothing
-  }
-
   func setText(string: NSAttributedString, size: CGSize, numberOfLines: Int) -> Void {
     self.textView.frame.size = size
     self.textView.textContainer.maximumNumberOfLines = numberOfLines
@@ -51,13 +56,48 @@ class RNUITextView: UIView {
 
   @IBAction func callOnPress(_ sender: UITapGestureRecognizer) -> Void {
     // If we find a child, then call onPress
-//    if let child = getPressed(sender) {
-//      if textView.selectedTextRange == nil {
-//        child.onTextPress()
-//      } else {
-//        // Clear the selected text range if we are not pressing on a link
-//        textView.selectedTextRange = nil
-//      }
-//    }
+    if let child = getPressed(sender) {
+      if textView.selectedTextRange == nil, let onPress = child.onPress {
+        onPress(["": ""])
+      } else {
+        // Clear the selected text range if we are not pressing on a link
+        textView.selectedTextRange = nil
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // Try to get the pressed segment
+  func getPressed(_ sender: UITapGestureRecognizer) -> RNUITextViewChild? {
+    let layoutManager = textView.layoutManager
+    var location = sender.location(in: textView)
+
+    // Remove the padding
+    location.x -= textView.textContainerInset.left
+    location.y -= textView.textContainerInset.top
+
+    // Get the index of the char
+    let charIndex = layoutManager.characterIndex(
+      for: location,
+      in: textView.textContainer,
+      fractionOfDistanceBetweenInsertionPoints: nil
+    )
+
+    let text = textView.attributedText.string
+
+    for child in self.subviews {
+      guard let child = child as? RNUITextViewChild, let text = child.text else {
+        continue
+      }
+
+      let range = text.range(of: text)
+
+      if let lowerBound = range?.lowerBound, let upperBound = range?.upperBound {
+        if charIndex >= lowerBound.utf16Offset(in: text) && charIndex <= upperBound.utf16Offset(in: text) {
+          return child
+        }
+      }
+    }
+
+    return nil
   }
 }
diff --git a/modules/react-native-ui-text-view/ios/RNUITextViewChild.swift b/modules/react-native-ui-text-view/ios/RNUITextViewChild.swift
index 615ff283c0..c341c46e44 100644
--- a/modules/react-native-ui-text-view/ios/RNUITextViewChild.swift
+++ b/modules/react-native-ui-text-view/ios/RNUITextViewChild.swift
@@ -1,21 +1,4 @@
 class RNUITextViewChild: UIView {
-  @objc var text: String = "" {
-    didSet {
-      print(text)
-      let superview = self.superview as? RNUITextView
-    }
-  }
-  @objc var textStyle: TextStyle? {
-    didSet {
-      print(textStyle)
-    }
-  }
-
-  override init(frame: CGRect) {
-    super.init(frame: frame)
-  }
-
-  required init?(coder: NSCoder) {
-    fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented")
-  }
+  @objc var text: String?
+  @objc var onPress: RCTDirectEventBlock?
 }
diff --git a/modules/react-native-ui-text-view/ios/UiTextViewViewManager.m b/modules/react-native-ui-text-view/ios/UiTextViewViewManager.m
index 984131f44b..f5e8c0c19b 100644
--- a/modules/react-native-ui-text-view/ios/UiTextViewViewManager.m
+++ b/modules/react-native-ui-text-view/ios/UiTextViewViewManager.m
@@ -24,4 +24,7 @@ RCT_REMAP_SHADOW_PROPERTY(fontWeight, fontWeight, NSString)
 RCT_REMAP_SHADOW_PROPERTY(letterSpacing, letterSpacing, CGFloat)
 RCT_REMAP_SHADOW_PROPERTY(lineHeight, lineHeight, CGFloat)
 RCT_REMAP_SHADOW_PROPERTY(pointerEvents, pointerEvents, NSString)
+
+RCT_EXPORT_VIEW_PROPERTY(text, NSString)
+RCT_EXPORT_VIEW_PROPERTY(onPress, RCTBubblingEventBlock)
 @end
diff --git a/modules/react-native-ui-text-view/src/UITextView.tsx b/modules/react-native-ui-text-view/src/UITextView.tsx
index ea6926b371..79df9dc172 100644
--- a/modules/react-native-ui-text-view/src/UITextView.tsx
+++ b/modules/react-native-ui-text-view/src/UITextView.tsx
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ const textDefaults: TextProps = {
   selectable: true,
 }
 
-export function UITextView({style, children, onPress, ...rest}: TextProps) {
+export function UITextView({style, children, ...rest}: TextProps) {
   const [isAncestor, rootStyle] = useTextAncestorContext()
 
   // Flatten the styles, and apply the root styles when needed
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ export function UITextView({style, children, onPress, ...rest}: TextProps) {
                   key={index}
                   style={flattenedStyle}
                   text={c}
-                  onTextPress={onPress}
                   {...rest}
                 />
               )
@@ -60,7 +59,6 @@ export function UITextView({style, children, onPress, ...rest}: TextProps) {
                 key={index}
                 style={flattenedStyle}
                 text={c}
-                onTextPress={onPress}
                 {...rest}
               />
             )