diff --git a/docs/docs/api/components/keyboard-chat-scroll-view.mdx b/docs/docs/api/components/keyboard-chat-scroll-view.mdx
index f8a07dcedb..d00c74faec 100644
--- a/docs/docs/api/components/keyboard-chat-scroll-view.mdx
+++ b/docs/docs/api/components/keyboard-chat-scroll-view.mdx
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ import { ScrollView } from "react-native-gesture-handler";
 
 When `true`, freezes all keyboard-driven layout changes. This is useful when dismissing the keyboard to show a custom input view (such as an emoji picker or bottom sheet) — it prevents the chat content from shifting while the transition happens.
 
+Accepts either a plain `boolean` or a [Reanimated `SharedValue<boolean>`](https://docs.swmansion.com/react-native-reanimated/docs/core/useSharedValue/). Using a `SharedValue` allows you to toggle freezing from the UI thread (e.g., inside a worklet or gesture handler) without triggering a React re-render.
+
 ### `inverted`
 
 Set to `true` if your list uses the `inverted` prop (the standard pattern for chat-style lists where the newest messages appear at the bottom).
diff --git a/docs/docs/guides/building-chat-app.mdx b/docs/docs/guides/building-chat-app.mdx
index 104e71c276..03f7eb56cb 100644
--- a/docs/docs/guides/building-chat-app.mdx
+++ b/docs/docs/guides/building-chat-app.mdx
@@ -197,6 +197,28 @@ const onKeyboardPress = () => {
 
 When `freeze` is `true`, all keyboard-driven layout changes (padding, content offset, scroll position) are paused.
 
+:::tip SharedValue support
+`freeze` also accepts a [Reanimated `SharedValue<boolean>`](https://docs.swmansion.com/react-native-reanimated/docs/core/useSharedValue/). This is useful when you need to toggle freezing synchronously from a worklet — for example, inside a gesture handler:
+
+```tsx
+import { useSharedValue } from "react-native-reanimated";
+import { Gesture, GestureDetector } from "react-native-gesture-handler";
+
+const freeze = useSharedValue(false);
+
+const gesture = Gesture.Pan().onStart(() => {
+  "worklet";
+  // freeze synchronously on the UI thread before the keyboard starts dismissing
+  freeze.value = true;
+});
+
+<KeyboardChatScrollView freeze={freeze}>
+  {/* ...messages... */}
+</KeyboardChatScrollView>;
+```
+
+:::
+
 ### Handling a growing multiline input
 
 If your composer has a `multiline` `TextInput` that grows as the user types, you need to tell `KeyboardChatScrollView` about the extra space it takes up — otherwise the component doesn't know the scrollable range has changed and the bottom messages can get clipped under the input.
diff --git a/docs/versioned_docs/version-1.21.0/api/components/keyboard-chat-scroll-view.mdx b/docs/versioned_docs/version-1.21.0/api/components/keyboard-chat-scroll-view.mdx
index f8a07dcedb..d00c74faec 100644
--- a/docs/versioned_docs/version-1.21.0/api/components/keyboard-chat-scroll-view.mdx
+++ b/docs/versioned_docs/version-1.21.0/api/components/keyboard-chat-scroll-view.mdx
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ import { ScrollView } from "react-native-gesture-handler";
 
 When `true`, freezes all keyboard-driven layout changes. This is useful when dismissing the keyboard to show a custom input view (such as an emoji picker or bottom sheet) — it prevents the chat content from shifting while the transition happens.
 
+Accepts either a plain `boolean` or a [Reanimated `SharedValue<boolean>`](https://docs.swmansion.com/react-native-reanimated/docs/core/useSharedValue/). Using a `SharedValue` allows you to toggle freezing from the UI thread (e.g., inside a worklet or gesture handler) without triggering a React re-render.
+
 ### `inverted`
 
 Set to `true` if your list uses the `inverted` prop (the standard pattern for chat-style lists where the newest messages appear at the bottom).
diff --git a/docs/versioned_docs/version-1.21.0/guides/building-chat-app.mdx b/docs/versioned_docs/version-1.21.0/guides/building-chat-app.mdx
index 104e71c276..03f7eb56cb 100644
--- a/docs/versioned_docs/version-1.21.0/guides/building-chat-app.mdx
+++ b/docs/versioned_docs/version-1.21.0/guides/building-chat-app.mdx
@@ -197,6 +197,28 @@ const onKeyboardPress = () => {
 
 When `freeze` is `true`, all keyboard-driven layout changes (padding, content offset, scroll position) are paused.
 
+:::tip SharedValue support
+`freeze` also accepts a [Reanimated `SharedValue<boolean>`](https://docs.swmansion.com/react-native-reanimated/docs/core/useSharedValue/). This is useful when you need to toggle freezing synchronously from a worklet — for example, inside a gesture handler:
+
+```tsx
+import { useSharedValue } from "react-native-reanimated";
+import { Gesture, GestureDetector } from "react-native-gesture-handler";
+
+const freeze = useSharedValue(false);
+
+const gesture = Gesture.Pan().onStart(() => {
+  "worklet";
+  // freeze synchronously on the UI thread before the keyboard starts dismissing
+  freeze.value = true;
+});
+
+<KeyboardChatScrollView freeze={freeze}>
+  {/* ...messages... */}
+</KeyboardChatScrollView>;
+```
+
+:::
+
 ### Handling a growing multiline input
 
 If your composer has a `multiline` `TextInput` that grows as the user types, you need to tell `KeyboardChatScrollView` about the extra space it takes up — otherwise the component doesn't know the scrollable range has changed and the bottom messages can get clipped under the input.
diff --git a/src/components/KeyboardChatScrollView/index.tsx b/src/components/KeyboardChatScrollView/index.tsx
index be5179ac81..27353b57dc 100644
--- a/src/components/KeyboardChatScrollView/index.tsx
+++ b/src/components/KeyboardChatScrollView/index.tsx
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ const KeyboardChatScrollView = forwardRef<
   ) => {
     const scrollViewRef = useAnimatedRef<Reanimated.ScrollView>();
     const onRef = useCombinedRef(ref, scrollViewRef);
+    const freezeSV = useDerivedValue(() =>
+      typeof freeze === "boolean" ? freeze : freeze.value,
+    );
     const {
       padding,
       currentHeight,
@@ -55,7 +58,7 @@ const KeyboardChatScrollView = forwardRef<
     } = useChatKeyboard(scrollViewRef, {
       inverted,
       keyboardLiftBehavior,
-      freeze,
+      freeze: freezeSV,
       offset,
       blankSpace,
       extraContentPadding,
@@ -72,7 +75,7 @@ const KeyboardChatScrollView = forwardRef<
       contentOffsetY,
       inverted,
       keyboardLiftBehavior,
-      freeze,
+      freeze: freezeSV,
     });
 
     const totalPadding = useDerivedValue(() =>
diff --git a/src/components/KeyboardChatScrollView/types.ts b/src/components/KeyboardChatScrollView/types.ts
index 7766cdc77a..a853aece4b 100644
--- a/src/components/KeyboardChatScrollView/types.ts
+++ b/src/components/KeyboardChatScrollView/types.ts
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ export type KeyboardChatScrollViewProps = {
    *
    * Default is `false`.
    */
-  freeze?: boolean;
+  freeze?: boolean | SharedValue<boolean>;
   /**
    * A shared value representing additional padding from external elements
    * (e.g., a growing multiline `TextInput` in a `KeyboardStickyView`).
diff --git a/src/components/KeyboardChatScrollView/useChatKeyboard/__fixtures__/testUtils.ts b/src/components/KeyboardChatScrollView/useChatKeyboard/__fixtures__/testUtils.ts
index f7fa93d6b5..141e0929e3 100644
--- a/src/components/KeyboardChatScrollView/useChatKeyboard/__fixtures__/testUtils.ts
+++ b/src/components/KeyboardChatScrollView/useChatKeyboard/__fixtures__/testUtils.ts
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ type RenderOptions = Omit<
   Parameters<typeof useChatKeyboard>[1],
   "freeze" | "offset" | "blankSpace" | "extraContentPadding"
 > & {
-  freeze?: boolean;
+  freeze?: boolean | SharedValue<boolean>;
   offset?: number;
   blankSpace?: SharedValue<number>;
   extraContentPadding?: SharedValue<number>;
@@ -99,9 +99,11 @@ export function createRender(modulePath: string) {
     return renderHook(() => {
       const ref = useAnimatedRef<Reanimated.ScrollView>();
 
+      const freeze = options.freeze ?? false;
+
       return mod.useChatKeyboard(ref, {
         ...options,
-        freeze: options.freeze ?? false,
+        freeze: typeof freeze === "boolean" ? sv(freeze) : freeze,
         offset: options.offset ?? 0,
         blankSpace: options.blankSpace ?? sv(0),
         extraContentPadding: options.extraContentPadding ?? sv(0),
diff --git a/src/components/KeyboardChatScrollView/useChatKeyboard/index.ios.ts b/src/components/KeyboardChatScrollView/useChatKeyboard/index.ios.ts
index e533615877..560df54bae 100644
--- a/src/components/KeyboardChatScrollView/useChatKeyboard/index.ios.ts
+++ b/src/components/KeyboardChatScrollView/useChatKeyboard/index.ios.ts
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ function useChatKeyboard(
       onStart: (e) => {
         "worklet";
 
-        if (freeze) {
+        if (freeze.value) {
           return;
         }
 
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ function useChatKeyboard(
       onEnd: (e) => {
         "worklet";
 
-        if (freeze) {
+        if (freeze.value) {
           return;
         }
 
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ function useChatKeyboard(
         padding.value = effective;
       },
     },
-    [inverted, keyboardLiftBehavior, freeze, offset, extraContentPadding],
+    [inverted, keyboardLiftBehavior, offset, extraContentPadding],
   );
 
   return {
diff --git a/src/components/KeyboardChatScrollView/useChatKeyboard/index.ts b/src/components/KeyboardChatScrollView/useChatKeyboard/index.ts
index e118852af7..48178d9246 100644
--- a/src/components/KeyboardChatScrollView/useChatKeyboard/index.ts
+++ b/src/components/KeyboardChatScrollView/useChatKeyboard/index.ts
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ function useChatKeyboard(
       onStart: (e) => {
         "worklet";
 
-        if (freeze) {
+        if (freeze.value) {
           return;
         }
 
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ function useChatKeyboard(
       onMove: (e) => {
         "worklet";
 
-        if (freeze) {
+        if (freeze.value) {
           return;
         }
 
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ function useChatKeyboard(
       onEnd: (e) => {
         "worklet";
 
-        if (freeze) {
+        if (freeze.value) {
           return;
         }
 
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ function useChatKeyboard(
         }
       },
     },
-    [inverted, keyboardLiftBehavior, freeze, offset],
+    [inverted, keyboardLiftBehavior, offset],
   );
 
   return {
diff --git a/src/components/KeyboardChatScrollView/useChatKeyboard/types.ts b/src/components/KeyboardChatScrollView/useChatKeyboard/types.ts
index ebf6f6d4f7..02abf5cd94 100644
--- a/src/components/KeyboardChatScrollView/useChatKeyboard/types.ts
+++ b/src/components/KeyboardChatScrollView/useChatKeyboard/types.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ type KeyboardLiftBehavior = "always" | "whenAtEnd" | "persistent" | "never";
 type UseChatKeyboardOptions = {
   inverted: boolean;
   keyboardLiftBehavior: KeyboardLiftBehavior;
-  freeze: boolean;
+  freeze: SharedValue<boolean>;
   offset: number;
   blankSpace: SharedValue<number>;
   /** Extra content padding shared value — needed on iOS to correctly clamp contentOffset. */
diff --git a/src/components/KeyboardChatScrollView/useExtraContentPadding/__fixtures__/setup.ts b/src/components/KeyboardChatScrollView/useExtraContentPadding/__fixtures__/setup.ts
index e92e4030f1..772ab443bf 100644
--- a/src/components/KeyboardChatScrollView/useExtraContentPadding/__fixtures__/setup.ts
+++ b/src/components/KeyboardChatScrollView/useExtraContentPadding/__fixtures__/setup.ts
@@ -34,20 +34,23 @@ jest.mock("react-native-reanimated", () => ({
 
 type RenderOptions = Omit<
   Parameters<typeof useExtraContentPadding>[0],
-  "scrollViewRef" | "blankSpace"
+  "scrollViewRef" | "blankSpace" | "freeze"
 > & {
   blankSpace?: SharedValue<number>;
+  freeze: boolean | SharedValue<boolean>;
 };
 
 export const createRender = () => {
   return function render(options: RenderOptions) {
     return renderHook(() => {
       const ref = useAnimatedRef<Reanimated.ScrollView>();
+      const { freeze, ...rest } = options;
 
       useExtraContentPadding({
         scrollViewRef: ref,
         blankSpace: options.blankSpace ?? sv(0),
-        ...options,
+        freeze: typeof freeze === "boolean" ? sv(freeze) : freeze,
+        ...rest,
       });
     });
   };
diff --git a/src/components/KeyboardChatScrollView/useExtraContentPadding/index.ts b/src/components/KeyboardChatScrollView/useExtraContentPadding/index.ts
index 24a25ae12f..0f6d7c67a3 100644
--- a/src/components/KeyboardChatScrollView/useExtraContentPadding/index.ts
+++ b/src/components/KeyboardChatScrollView/useExtraContentPadding/index.ts
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ type UseExtraContentPaddingOptions = {
   contentOffsetY?: SharedValue<number>;
   inverted: boolean;
   keyboardLiftBehavior: KeyboardLiftBehavior;
-  freeze: boolean;
+  freeze: SharedValue<boolean>;
 };
 
 /**
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ function useExtraContentPadding(options: UseExtraContentPaddingOptions): void {
   useAnimatedReaction(
     () => extraContentPadding.value,
     (current, previous) => {
-      if (freeze || previous === null) {
+      if (freeze.value || previous === null) {
         return;
       }
 
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ function useExtraContentPadding(options: UseExtraContentPaddingOptions): void {
         scrollToTarget(target);
       }
     },
-    [inverted, keyboardLiftBehavior, freeze],
+    [inverted, keyboardLiftBehavior],
   );
 }