diff --git a/ios/EnrichedTextInputView.mm b/ios/EnrichedTextInputView.mm
index 8795f0bbb..94ce793be 100644
--- a/ios/EnrichedTextInputView.mm
+++ b/ios/EnrichedTextInputView.mm
@@ -1662,8 +1662,9 @@ - (void)handleWordModificationBasedChanges:(NSString *)word
 }
 
 - (void)anyTextMayHaveBeenModified {
-  // we don't do no text changes when working with iOS marked text
+  // we don't do text changes when working with iOS marked text
   if (textView.markedTextRange != nullptr) {
+    [self handlePlaceholderVisibility];
     return;
   }
 
@@ -1685,13 +1686,7 @@ - (void)anyTextMayHaveBeenModified {
     [mentionStyleClass manageMentionEditing];
   }
 
-  // placholder management
-  if (!_placeholderLabel.hidden && textView.textStorage.string.length > 0) {
-    [self setPlaceholderLabelShown:NO];
-  } else if (textView.textStorage.string.length == 0 &&
-             _placeholderLabel.hidden) {
-    [self setPlaceholderLabelShown:YES];
-  }
+  [self handlePlaceholderVisibility];
 
   // modified words handling
   NSArray *currentDirtyRanges = [attributesManager getDirtyRanges];
@@ -1747,6 +1742,16 @@ - (void)anyTextMayHaveBeenModified {
   [self scheduleRelayoutIfNeeded];
 }
 
+- (void)handlePlaceholderVisibility {
+  // placeholder management
+  if (!_placeholderLabel.hidden && textView.textStorage.string.length > 0) {
+    [self setPlaceholderLabelShown:NO];
+  } else if (textView.textStorage.string.length == 0 &&
+             _placeholderLabel.hidden) {
+    [self setPlaceholderLabelShown:YES];
+  }
+}
+
 // Debounced relayout helper - coalesces multiple requests into one per runloop
 // tick
 - (void)scheduleRelayoutIfNeeded {
diff --git a/ios/utils/ParagraphAttributesUtils.mm b/ios/utils/ParagraphAttributesUtils.mm
index 517e5b349..0a70351f9 100644
--- a/ios/utils/ParagraphAttributesUtils.mm
+++ b/ios/utils/ParagraphAttributesUtils.mm
@@ -20,6 +20,13 @@ + (BOOL)handleBackspaceInRange:(NSRange)range
     return NO;
   }
 
+  // Do not manually intervene if the user is in the middle of IME
+  // composition. Let the iOS system handle the backspace natively to prevent
+  // state desync.
+  if (typedInput->textView.markedTextRange != nullptr) {
+    return NO;
+  }
+
   // we make sure it was a backspace (text with 0 length) and it deleted
   // something (range longer than 0)
   if (text.length > 0 || range.length == 0) {