diff --git a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/fabric/mounting/SurfaceMountingManager.java b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/fabric/mounting/SurfaceMountingManager.java
index a01798d0bf..9058dcc7b1 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/fabric/mounting/SurfaceMountingManager.java
+++ b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/fabric/mounting/SurfaceMountingManager.java
@@ -498,7 +498,6 @@ public class SurfaceMountingManager {
       view =
           viewManager.createView(
               reactTag, mThemedReactContext, propsDiffMap, stateWrapper, mJSResponderHandler);
-      view.setId(reactTag);
     }
 
     ViewState viewState = new ViewState(reactTag, view, viewManager);
diff --git a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/NativeViewHierarchyManager.java b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/NativeViewHierarchyManager.java
index ac2a51d668..e429eba16a 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/NativeViewHierarchyManager.java
+++ b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/NativeViewHierarchyManager.java
@@ -282,14 +282,6 @@ public class NativeViewHierarchyManager {
           viewManager.createView(tag, themedContext, initialProps, null, mJSResponderHandler);
       mTagsToViews.put(tag, view);
       mTagsToViewManagers.put(tag, viewManager);
-
-      // Use android View id field to store React tag. This is possible since we don't inflate
-      // React views from layout xmls. Thus it is easier to just reuse that field instead of
-      // creating another (potentially much more expensive) mapping from view to React tag
-      view.setId(tag);
-      if (initialProps != null) {
-        viewManager.updateProperties(view, initialProps);
-      }
     } finally {
       Systrace.endSection(Systrace.TRACE_TAG_REACT_VIEW);
     }
diff --git a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/ViewManager.java b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/ViewManager.java
index cf1be7c7ce..ccde14ae9c 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/ViewManager.java
+++ b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/ViewManager.java
@@ -122,7 +122,10 @@ public abstract class ViewManager<T extends View, C extends ReactShadowNode>
   /**
    * Subclasses should return a new View instance of the proper type. This is an optional method
    * that will call createViewInstance for you. Override it if you need props upon creation of the
-   * view.
+   * view, or state.
+   *
+   * <p>If you override this method, you *must* guarantee that you you're handling updateProperties,
+   * view.setId, addEventEmitters, and updateState/updateExtraData properly!
    *
    * @param reactTag reactTag that should be set as ID of the view instance
    * @param reactContext ReactContext used to initialize view instance
@@ -140,6 +143,7 @@ public abstract class ViewManager<T extends View, C extends ReactShadowNode>
     if (initialProps != null) {
       updateProperties(view, initialProps);
     }
+    // Only present in Fabric; but always present in Fabric.
     if (stateWrapper != null) {
       Object extraData = updateState(view, initialProps, stateWrapper);
       if (extraData != null) {