diff --git a/packages/react-native/Libraries/Components/ScrollView/ScrollView.js b/packages/react-native/Libraries/Components/ScrollView/ScrollView.js
index 53ff2d3d5b0b..85e304db34a5 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/Libraries/Components/ScrollView/ScrollView.js
+++ b/packages/react-native/Libraries/Components/ScrollView/ScrollView.js
@@ -1850,6 +1850,8 @@ class ScrollView extends React.Component<ScrollViewProps, ScrollViewState> {
           {style: StyleSheet.compose(baseStyle, outer)},
           <NativeScrollView
             {...props}
+            // Nested scroll should always be enabled to allow the child scroll view to handle events before passing them to the refresh control parent
+            nestedScrollEnabled={props.nestedScrollEnabled ?? true}
             style={StyleSheet.compose(baseStyle, inner)}
             // $FlowFixMe[incompatible-type] - Flow only knows element refs.
             ref={scrollViewRef}>
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/api/ReactAndroid.api b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/api/ReactAndroid.api
index 8e29b69bf890..f3506a16c8fd 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/api/ReactAndroid.api
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/api/ReactAndroid.api
@@ -6022,7 +6022,7 @@ public abstract interface class com/facebook/react/views/scroll/VirtualView {
 	public abstract fun onModeChange (Lcom/facebook/react/views/virtual/VirtualViewMode;Landroid/graphics/Rect;)V
 }
 
-public final class com/facebook/react/views/swiperefresh/ReactSwipeRefreshLayout : androidx/swiperefreshlayout/widget/SwipeRefreshLayout {
+public class com/facebook/react/views/swiperefresh/ReactSwipeRefreshLayout : androidx/swiperefreshlayout/widget/SwipeRefreshLayout {
 	public fun <init> (Lcom/facebook/react/bridge/ReactContext;)V
 	public fun canChildScrollUp ()Z
 	public fun dispatchGenericMotionEvent (Landroid/view/MotionEvent;)Z
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/swiperefresh/ReactSwipeRefreshLayout.kt b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/swiperefresh/ReactSwipeRefreshLayout.kt
index 4733a1bb15a1..8cea3fb14438 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/swiperefresh/ReactSwipeRefreshLayout.kt
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/swiperefresh/ReactSwipeRefreshLayout.kt
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ import kotlin.math.abs
  * pull-to-refresh functionality. It handles touch event interception for the refresh gesture while
  * properly forwarding other events to its children.
  */
-public class ReactSwipeRefreshLayout(reactContext: ReactContext) :
+public open class ReactSwipeRefreshLayout(reactContext: ReactContext) :
     SwipeRefreshLayout(reactContext) {
 
   private var didLayout: Boolean = false