diff --git a/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/apple/RNGestureHandlerButton.h b/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/apple/RNGestureHandlerButton.h
index 839877120a..6e4186b627 100644
--- a/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/apple/RNGestureHandlerButton.h
+++ b/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/apple/RNGestureHandlerButton.h
@@ -49,6 +49,14 @@
  */
 - (void)applyStartAnimationState;
 
+/**
+ * Resets all transient press/animation state so the button can be safely reused
+ * by Fabric view recycling. Cancels pending press-out blocks, removes in-flight
+ * animations, and unconditionally restores the animation target's transform/alpha
+ * and the underlay opacity to neutral values.
+ */
+- (void)prepareForRecycle;
+
 /**
  * Updates the underlay layer's corner radii with separate horizontal/vertical
  * components per corner, supporting elliptical inner corners when border widths
diff --git a/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/apple/RNGestureHandlerButton.mm b/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/apple/RNGestureHandlerButton.mm
index 8acc1a5544..cdb82f1a4e 100644
--- a/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/apple/RNGestureHandlerButton.mm
+++ b/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/apple/RNGestureHandlerButton.mm
@@ -117,6 +117,28 @@ - (void)cancelPendingPressOutAnimation
   [_underlayLayer removeAllAnimations];
 }
 
+- (void)prepareForRecycle
+{
+  // Fabric reuses the same wrapper + button instance across mounts. Without
+  // this reset, residual press-in transform/alpha/underlay-opacity from a
+  // prior use leaks into the recycled view, and `updateProps:` won't undo it
+  // when defaults are unchanged between mounts.
+  [self cancelPendingPressOutAnimation];
+
+  RNGHUIView *target = self.animationTarget ?: self;
+  target.layer.transform = CATransform3DIdentity;
+#if !TARGET_OS_OSX
+  target.alpha = 1.0;
+#else
+  target.alphaValue = 1.0;
+#endif
+  _underlayLayer.opacity = 0;
+
+  _isTouchInsideBounds = NO;
+  _suppressSuperControlActionDispatch = NO;
+  _pressInTimestamp = 0;
+}
+
 #if TARGET_OS_OSX
 - (void)viewWillMoveToWindow:(RNGHWindow *)newWindow
 {
diff --git a/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/apple/RNGestureHandlerButtonComponentView.mm b/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/apple/RNGestureHandlerButtonComponentView.mm
index ac73f1c0e8..164163869a 100644
--- a/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/apple/RNGestureHandlerButtonComponentView.mm
+++ b/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/apple/RNGestureHandlerButtonComponentView.mm
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ @interface RNGestureHandlerButtonComponentView () <RCTRNGestureHandlerButtonView
 
 @implementation RNGestureHandlerButtonComponentView {
   RNGestureHandlerButton *_buttonView;
+  BOOL _needsAnimationStateReset;
 }
 
 #if TARGET_OS_OSX
@@ -67,6 +68,20 @@ - (instancetype)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame
   return self;
 }
 
+- (void)prepareForRecycle
+{
+  [self.layer removeAnimationForKey:@"transform"];
+  self.layer.transform = CATransform3DIdentity;
+
+  [_buttonView prepareForRecycle];
+
+  // Force the next updateProps: to re-run applyStartAnimationState even if
+  // the new mount's defaults match the previous mount's.
+  _needsAnimationStateReset = YES;
+
+  [super prepareForRecycle];
+}
+
 - (void)mountChildComponentView:(RNGHUIView<RCTComponentViewProtocol> *)childComponentView index:(NSInteger)index
 {
   [_buttonView mountChildComponentView:childComponentView index:index];
@@ -143,8 +158,33 @@ - (void)updateLayoutMetrics:(const facebook::react::LayoutMetrics &)layoutMetric
 
 - (void)finalizeUpdates:(RNComponentViewUpdateMask)updateMask
 {
+  // super's invalidateLayer (called via finalizeUpdates) unconditionally sets
+  // self.layer.opacity to the React style.opacity, overwriting our
+  // applyStartAnimationState alpha and interrupting in-flight press
+  // animations. Save/restore around super, but only touch what super actually
+  // disturbed — re-adding an unchanged animation resets its progress.
+  float savedOpacity = self.layer.opacity;
+  CAAnimation *savedOpacityAnimation = [self.layer animationForKey:@"opacity"];
+
   [super finalizeUpdates:updateMask];
 
+  BOOL opacityChanged = savedOpacity != self.layer.opacity;
+  BOOL animationChanged = savedOpacityAnimation != [self.layer animationForKey:@"opacity"];
+  if (opacityChanged || animationChanged) {
+    [CATransaction begin];
+    [CATransaction setDisableActions:YES];
+    if (animationChanged) {
+      [self.layer removeAnimationForKey:@"opacity"];
+      if (savedOpacityAnimation) {
+        [self.layer addAnimation:savedOpacityAnimation forKey:@"opacity"];
+      }
+    }
+    if (opacityChanged) {
+      self.layer.opacity = savedOpacity;
+    }
+    [CATransaction commit];
+  }
+
   // Resolve per-corner border radii from props and forward to the button
   // so its underlay CALayer gets the matching shape.
   const auto borderMetrics = _props->resolveBorderMetrics(_layoutMetrics);
@@ -267,11 +307,15 @@ - (void)updateProps:(const Props::Shared &)props oldProps:(const Props::Shared &
 {
   const auto &newProps = *std::static_pointer_cast<const RNGestureHandlerButtonProps>(props);
 
-  // Re-apply the idle visual state only on first mount or when one of the default
-  // values actually changed. Doing it on every commit interrupts in-flight press
-  // animations whenever React re-renders the children mid-press.
-  BOOL shouldApplyStartAnimationState = !oldProps;
-  if (oldProps) {
+  // After recycling, treat diffing branches as a fresh mount so values that
+  // survived recycling on _buttonView (e.g. pointerEvents) get re-applied.
+  BOOL treatAsFirstMount = !oldProps || _needsAnimationStateReset;
+  _needsAnimationStateReset = NO;
+
+  // Avoid re-running applyStartAnimationState on every commit — it would
+  // interrupt in-flight press animations during mid-press re-renders.
+  BOOL shouldApplyStartAnimationState = treatAsFirstMount;
+  if (!treatAsFirstMount) {
     const auto &oldButtonProps = *std::static_pointer_cast<const RNGestureHandlerButtonProps>(oldProps);
     shouldApplyStartAnimationState = oldButtonProps.defaultOpacity != newProps.defaultOpacity ||
         oldButtonProps.defaultScale != newProps.defaultScale ||
@@ -303,7 +347,7 @@ - (void)updateProps:(const Props::Shared &)props oldProps:(const Props::Shared &
   // This is necessary because pointerEvents is redefined in the spec,
   // which shadows the base property with a different, incompatible type.
   const auto &newViewProps = static_cast<const ViewProps &>(newProps);
-  if (!oldProps) {
+  if (treatAsFirstMount) {
     _buttonView.pointerEvents = RCTPointerEventsToEnum(newViewProps.pointerEvents);
   } else {
     const auto &oldButtonProps = *std::static_pointer_cast<const RNGestureHandlerButtonProps>(oldProps);