diff --git a/src/components/HTMLEngineProvider/BaseHTMLEngineProvider.js b/src/components/HTMLEngineProvider/BaseHTMLEngineProvider.js
index 4b61d55ae228..bba62cc4f4e0 100755
--- a/src/components/HTMLEngineProvider/BaseHTMLEngineProvider.js
+++ b/src/components/HTMLEngineProvider/BaseHTMLEngineProvider.js
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ const defaultViewProps = {style: [styles.alignItemsStart, styles.userSelectText]
 // costly invalidations and commits.
 function BaseHTMLEngineProvider(props) {
     // We need to memoize this prop to make it referentially stable.
-    const defaultTextProps = useMemo(() => ({selectable: props.textSelectable, allowFontScaling: false}), [props.textSelectable]);
+    const defaultTextProps = useMemo(() => ({selectable: props.textSelectable, allowFontScaling: false, textBreakStrategy: 'simple'}), [props.textSelectable]);
 
     // We need to pass multiple system-specific fonts for emojis but
     // we can't apply multiple fonts at once so we need to pass fallback fonts.