diff --git a/patches/react-native@0.81.5.patch b/patches/react-native@0.81.5.patch
index d7e0d10328..504a3f678d 100644
--- a/patches/react-native@0.81.5.patch
+++ b/patches/react-native@0.81.5.patch
@@ -1,3 +1,28 @@
+diff --git a/React/Fabric/Mounting/ComponentViews/ScrollView/RCTEnhancedScrollView.mm b/React/Fabric/Mounting/ComponentViews/ScrollView/RCTEnhancedScrollView.mm
+index c593d9ee2155a826352ebca34845aa5792b2eec3..3c26cd737f21116ff0aa48190e97e6c0649b5fac 100644
+--- a/React/Fabric/Mounting/ComponentViews/ScrollView/RCTEnhancedScrollView.mm
++++ b/React/Fabric/Mounting/ComponentViews/ScrollView/RCTEnhancedScrollView.mm
+@@ -101,6 +101,20 @@ - (void)setContentOffset:(CGPoint)contentOffset
+       RCTSanitizeNaNValue(contentOffset.y, @"scrollView.contentOffset.y"));
+ }
+ 
++- (void)setCenterContent:(BOOL)centerContent
++{
++  if (_centerContent != centerContent) {
++    _centerContent = centerContent;
++    [self centerContentIfNeeded];
++  }
++}
++
++- (void)setContentSize:(CGSize)contentSize
++{
++  [super setContentSize:contentSize];
++  [self centerContentIfNeeded];
++}
++
+ - (void)setFrame:(CGRect)frame
+ {
+   [super setFrame:frame];
 diff --git a/React/Fabric/Mounting/ComponentViews/ScrollView/RCTPullToRefreshViewComponentView.h b/React/Fabric/Mounting/ComponentViews/ScrollView/RCTPullToRefreshViewComponentView.h
 index 914a2494a57923fbf185644b7e2bb8aca8848e56..0deac55f22350f5e8377d8963fb1c2434bf6abfd 100644
 --- a/React/Fabric/Mounting/ComponentViews/ScrollView/RCTPullToRefreshViewComponentView.h
@@ -35,10 +60,27 @@ index 0d231bc8aa938da296eb3b981e8ac9595a43b87f..be0a10d9c4de1892fa00bcbf8d63d739
  
    if (newConcreteProps.tintColor != oldConcreteProps.tintColor) {
 diff --git a/React/Fabric/Mounting/ComponentViews/ScrollView/RCTScrollViewComponentView.mm b/React/Fabric/Mounting/ComponentViews/ScrollView/RCTScrollViewComponentView.mm
-index 1494fd225aff1fa0429e917404d6b4ca5fc961c5..df643f5c844ad2e684de5161528eba17f4a188d0 100644
+index 1494fd225aff1fa0429e917404d6b4ca5fc961c5..682e41b141c38c830bbcd9f2ce0de07b18f13977 100644
 --- a/React/Fabric/Mounting/ComponentViews/ScrollView/RCTScrollViewComponentView.mm
 +++ b/React/Fabric/Mounting/ComponentViews/ScrollView/RCTScrollViewComponentView.mm
-@@ -1038,6 +1038,11 @@ - (void)_adjustForMaintainVisibleContentPosition
+@@ -380,7 +380,15 @@ - (void)updateProps:(const Props::Shared &)props oldProps:(const Props::Shared &
+ 
+   MAP_SCROLL_VIEW_PROP(zoomScale);
+ 
+-  if (oldScrollViewProps.contentInset != newScrollViewProps.contentInset) {
++  // When disabling centerContent, reset inset to prop value
++  // (enabling is handled automatically by the setCenterContent: setter)
++  if (oldScrollViewProps.centerContent && !newScrollViewProps.centerContent) {
++    _scrollView.contentInset = RCTUIEdgeInsetsFromEdgeInsets(newScrollViewProps.contentInset);
++  }
++
++  // Only apply contentInset from props if centerContent is disabled
++  // When centerContent is enabled, the inset is calculated by centerContentIfNeeded
++  if (oldScrollViewProps.contentInset != newScrollViewProps.contentInset && !newScrollViewProps.centerContent) {
+     _scrollView.contentInset = RCTUIEdgeInsetsFromEdgeInsets(newScrollViewProps.contentInset);
+   }
+ 
+@@ -1038,6 +1046,11 @@ - (void)_adjustForMaintainVisibleContentPosition
    }
  }
  
diff --git a/patches/react-native@0.81.5.patch.md b/patches/react-native@0.81.5.patch.md
index adf2e4912d..e6ba33c310 100644
--- a/patches/react-native@0.81.5.patch.md
+++ b/patches/react-native@0.81.5.patch.md
@@ -25,6 +25,26 @@ props for the create-mutation path.
 
 Issue: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/56343
 
+## RCTEnhancedScrollView.mm / RCTScrollViewComponentView.mm Patch - centerContent insets stale after content resize on New Arch
+
+**TODO: Remove after bumping React Native to 0.87+** (fixed upstream by facebook/react-native#56832,
+commit d50c1b5207; first shipped in 0.87.0-rc.0).
+
+On Fabric, `centerContent` centers by computing `contentInset` in `centerContentIfNeeded`, but that
+recompute only ran on `setFrame`/`didAddSubview`/`scrollViewDidZoom` - not when a state update assigns a
+new `contentSize` in `updateState`. Any content that resizes after mount inside a `centerContent`
+ScrollView (e.g. the lightbox image crop view getting its real aspect ratio from `onLoad` when the embed
+has no aspectRatio metadata) keeps the old insets: content rests off-center and the excess inset creates
+phantom scroll range, so the image can be dragged and parked off-center and the native scroll steals the
+swipe-down-to-dismiss pan. The old architecture paired every `contentSize` update with re-centering in
+`RCTScrollView.updateContentSizeIfNeeded`; Fabric dropped that link.
+
+Backport of the upstream fix: `setContentSize:`/`setCenterContent:` overrides on `RCTEnhancedScrollView`
+that call `centerContentIfNeeded`, plus the `updateProps` guards so the `contentInset` prop does not
+fight the computed centering inset.
+
+Issue: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/55090
+
 ## RCTTextLayoutManager.mm Patch - Text overflows instead of wrapping on the last line
 
 Issue: https://github.com/react/react-native/issues/53450#issuecomment-3298157830 
diff --git a/src/components/Lightbox/pager/ImageItem/ImageItem.ios.tsx b/src/components/Lightbox/pager/ImageItem/ImageItem.ios.tsx
index 19373cbe1a..216ac176c0 100644
--- a/src/components/Lightbox/pager/ImageItem/ImageItem.ios.tsx
+++ b/src/components/Lightbox/pager/ImageItem/ImageItem.ios.tsx
@@ -170,8 +170,6 @@ const ImageItem = ({
       width: screenSize.width,
       maxHeight: screenSize.height,
       alignSelf: 'center',
-      aspectRatio: imageAspect ?? 1 /* force onLoad */,
-      opacity: imageAspect === undefined ? 0 : 1,
     }
   })
 
@@ -180,11 +178,19 @@ const ImageItem = ({
     return {
       transform: cropContentTransform,
       width: '100%',
-      aspectRatio: imageAspect ?? 1 /* force onLoad */,
-      opacity: imageAspect === undefined ? 0 : 1,
     }
   })
 
+  /*
+   * When the aspect ratio is unknown until onLoad fires, these layout props
+   * change after mount. They must be applied via a React render rather than
+   * useAnimatedStyle
+   */
+  const imageLayoutStyle = {
+    aspectRatio: imageAspect ?? 1 /* force onLoad */,
+    opacity: imageAspect === undefined ? 0 : 1,
+  }
+
   const [showLoader, setShowLoader] = useState(false)
   const [hasLoaded, setHasLoaded] = useState(false)
   useAnimatedReaction(
@@ -225,8 +231,8 @@ const ImageItem = ({
         {showLoader && (
           <ActivityIndicator size="small" color="#FFF" style={styles.loading} />
         )}
-        <Animated.View style={imageCropStyle}>
-          <Animated.View style={imageStyle}>
+        <Animated.View style={[imageCropStyle, imageLayoutStyle]}>
+          <Animated.View style={[imageStyle, imageLayoutStyle]}>
             <Image
               contentFit="contain"
               source={{uri: imageSrc.uri}}