diff --git a/src/components/Composer/index.tsx b/src/components/Composer/index.tsx
index 5d01b05bb51f..69cc6b208652 100755
--- a/src/components/Composer/index.tsx
+++ b/src/components/Composer/index.tsx
@@ -388,13 +388,20 @@ function Composer(
                 disabled={isDisabled}
                 onKeyPress={handleKeyPress}
                 onFocus={(e) => {
-                    ReportActionComposeFocusManager.onComposerFocus(() => {
-                        if (!textInput.current) {
-                            return;
-                        }
-
-                        textInput.current.focus();
-                    });
+                    if (isReportActionCompose) {
+                        ReportActionComposeFocusManager.onComposerFocus(null);
+                    } else {
+                        // While a user edits a comment, if they open the LHN menu, we want to ensure that
+                        // the focus returns to the message edit composer after they click on a menu item (e.g. mark as read).
+                        // To achieve this, we re-assign the focus callback here.
+                        ReportActionComposeFocusManager.onComposerFocus(() => {
+                            if (!textInput.current) {
+                                return;
+                            }
+
+                            textInput.current.focus();
+                        });
+                    }
 
                     props.onFocus?.(e);
                 }}
diff --git a/src/libs/ReportActionComposeFocusManager.ts b/src/libs/ReportActionComposeFocusManager.ts
index 123d97987e14..11c1fd04329f 100644
--- a/src/libs/ReportActionComposeFocusManager.ts
+++ b/src/libs/ReportActionComposeFocusManager.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import type {TextInput} from 'react-native';
 import ROUTES from '@src/ROUTES';
 import Navigation from './Navigation/Navigation';
 
-type FocusCallback = () => void;
+type FocusCallback = (shouldFocusForNonBlurInputOnTapOutside?: boolean) => void;
 
 const composerRef = React.createRef<TextInput>();
 const editComposerRef = React.createRef<TextInput>();
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ let mainComposerFocusCallback: FocusCallback | null = null;
  *
  * @param callback callback to register
  */
-function onComposerFocus(callback: FocusCallback, isMainComposer = false) {
+function onComposerFocus(callback: FocusCallback | null, isMainComposer = false) {
     if (isMainComposer) {
         mainComposerFocusCallback = callback;
     } else {
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ function onComposerFocus(callback: FocusCallback, isMainComposer = false) {
 /**
  * Request focus on the ReportActionComposer
  */
-function focus() {
+function focus(shouldFocusForNonBlurInputOnTapOutside?: boolean) {
     /** Do not trigger the refocusing when the active route is not the report route, */
     if (!Navigation.isActiveRoute(ROUTES.REPORT_WITH_ID.getRoute(Navigation.getTopmostReportId() ?? ''))) {
         return;
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ function focus() {
             return;
         }
 
-        mainComposerFocusCallback();
+        mainComposerFocusCallback(shouldFocusForNonBlurInputOnTapOutside);
         return;
     }
 
diff --git a/src/pages/home/report/ContextMenu/ContextMenuActions.tsx b/src/pages/home/report/ContextMenu/ContextMenuActions.tsx
index c8e0b64cc434..4aba9e43b1c0 100644
--- a/src/pages/home/report/ContextMenu/ContextMenuActions.tsx
+++ b/src/pages/home/report/ContextMenu/ContextMenuActions.tsx
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import ExpensiMark from 'expensify-common/lib/ExpensiMark';
 import type {MutableRefObject} from 'react';
 import React from 'react';
+import {InteractionManager} from 'react-native';
 // eslint-disable-next-line no-restricted-imports
 import type {GestureResponderEvent, Text, View} from 'react-native';
 import type {OnyxEntry} from 'react-native-onyx';
@@ -200,7 +201,11 @@ const ContextMenuActions: ContextMenuAction[] = [
         onPress: (closePopover, {reportAction, reportID}) => {
             if (closePopover) {
                 hideContextMenu(false, () => {
-                    ReportActionComposeFocusManager.focus();
+                    InteractionManager.runAfterInteractions(() => {
+                        // Normally the focus callback of the main composer doesn't focus when willBlurTextInputOnTapOutside
+                        // is false, so we need to pass true here to override this condition.
+                        ReportActionComposeFocusManager.focus(true);
+                    });
                     Report.navigateToAndOpenChildReport(reportAction?.childReportID ?? '0', reportAction, reportID);
                 });
                 return;
diff --git a/src/pages/home/report/ReportActionCompose/ComposerWithSuggestions/ComposerWithSuggestions.tsx b/src/pages/home/report/ReportActionCompose/ComposerWithSuggestions/ComposerWithSuggestions.tsx
index bfcef66e7c54..f8147dfda81d 100644
--- a/src/pages/home/report/ReportActionCompose/ComposerWithSuggestions/ComposerWithSuggestions.tsx
+++ b/src/pages/home/report/ReportActionCompose/ComposerWithSuggestions/ComposerWithSuggestions.tsx
@@ -591,8 +591,8 @@ function ComposerWithSuggestions(
 
     const setUpComposeFocusManager = useCallback(() => {
         // This callback is used in the contextMenuActions to manage giving focus back to the compose input.
-        ReportActionComposeFocusManager.onComposerFocus(() => {
-            if (!willBlurTextInputOnTapOutside || !isFocused) {
+        ReportActionComposeFocusManager.onComposerFocus((shouldFocusForNonBlurInputOnTapOutside = false) => {
+            if ((!willBlurTextInputOnTapOutside && !shouldFocusForNonBlurInputOnTapOutside) || !isFocused) {
                 return;
             }