diff --git a/packages/block-editor/src/components/rich-text/index.native.js b/packages/block-editor/src/components/rich-text/index.native.js
index 95a2d91d2f2ff..0eadf49c00a0d 100644
--- a/packages/block-editor/src/components/rich-text/index.native.js
+++ b/packages/block-editor/src/components/rich-text/index.native.js
@@ -484,7 +484,6 @@ export class RichText extends Component {
 		// we don't want to refresh aztec as no content can have changed from this event
 		// let's update lastContent to prevent that in shouldComponentUpdate
 		this.lastContent = this.removeRootTagsProduceByAztec( unescapeSpaces( text ) );
-		this.props.onChange( this.lastContent );
 	}
 
 	isEmpty() {