diff --git a/React/Views/RefreshControl/RCTRefreshControl.m b/React/Views/RefreshControl/RCTRefreshControl.m
index d6c6e487ab0658..b09e6530c24841 100644
--- a/React/Views/RefreshControl/RCTRefreshControl.m
+++ b/React/Views/RefreshControl/RCTRefreshControl.m
@@ -117,6 +117,13 @@ - (void)endRefreshingProgrammatically
 
 - (void)_applyProgressViewOffset
 {
+  // Setting the UIRefreshControl's frame breaks integration with ContentInset from the superview
+  // if it is a UIScrollView. This integration happens when setting the UIScrollView's .refreshControl
+  // property. For this reason, setting the frame manually should be avoided, if not needed.
+  if (_progressViewOffset == 0.f) {
+    return;
+  }
+
   // progressViewOffset must be converted from the ScrollView parent's coordinate space to
   // the coordinate space of the RefreshControl. This ensures that the control respects any
   // offset in the view hierarchy, and that progressViewOffset is not inadvertently applied