diff --git a/node_modules/expo-paste-input/ios/ExpoPasteInputView.swift b/node_modules/expo-paste-input/ios/ExpoPasteInputView.swift
index 2164aec4ec1d..d216db6d2927 100644
--- a/node_modules/expo-paste-input/ios/ExpoPasteInputView.swift
+++ b/node_modules/expo-paste-input/ios/ExpoPasteInputView.swift
@@ -511,14 +511,17 @@ class ExpoPasteInputView: ExpoView {
     var attachmentRanges: [NSRange] = []
     var mediaPayloads: [MediaPayload] = []
 
+    // Only track ranges for attachments we successfully extract a real payload
+    // from. Attachments without a payload (e.g. iOS dictation placeholders)
+    // are left alone — sanitizing them would delete characters the system
+    // manages itself, and emitting "unsupported" would raise a spurious error.
     attributedText.enumerateAttribute(.attachment, in: NSRange(location: 0, length: attributedText.length), options: []) { value, range, _ in
       guard let attachment = value as? NSTextAttachment else {
         return
       }
 
-      attachmentRanges.append(range)
-
       if let payload = self.extractMediaPayload(from: attachment, textView: textView, range: range) {
+        attachmentRanges.append(range)
         mediaPayloads.append(payload)
       }
     }
@@ -529,9 +532,8 @@ class ExpoPasteInputView: ExpoView {
           return
         }
 
-        attachmentRanges.append(range)
-
         if let payload = self.extractMediaPayload(from: adaptiveGlyph) {
+          attachmentRanges.append(range)
           mediaPayloads.append(payload)
         }
       }
@@ -539,17 +541,12 @@ class ExpoPasteInputView: ExpoView {
 
     attachmentRanges = uniqueRanges(attachmentRanges)
 
-    guard !attachmentRanges.isEmpty else {
-      return
-    }
-
-    sanitizeAttachments(in: textView, ranges: attachmentRanges)
-
     guard !mediaPayloads.isEmpty else {
-      handleUnsupportedPaste()
       return
     }
 
+    sanitizeAttachments(in: textView, ranges: attachmentRanges)
+
     emitImagesAsync(for: mediaPayloads)
   }
 
@@ -651,6 +648,11 @@ class ExpoPasteInputView: ExpoView {
   }
 
   private func extractMediaPayload(from attachment: NSTextAttachment, textView: UITextView, range: NSRange) -> MediaPayload? {
+    // Only accept attachments that carry real image payloads. We intentionally
+    // do not fall back to `image(forBounds:)` or rendering the text view's
+    // hierarchy, because system-inserted attachments (e.g. the iOS dictation
+    // placeholder) draw themselves via those paths and would cause us to
+    // emit a screenshot of the composer as a "pasted image".
     if let fileWrapperData = attachment.fileWrapper?.regularFileContents,
        let payload = extractMediaPayload(fromData: fileWrapperData) {
       return payload
@@ -667,20 +669,6 @@ class ExpoPasteInputView: ExpoView {
       return .image(image)
     }
 
-    let attachmentBounds = attachment.bounds.size.width > 0 && attachment.bounds.size.height > 0
-      ? attachment.bounds
-      : CGRect(origin: .zero, size: CGSize(width: 128, height: 128))
-
-    if let image = attachment.image(forBounds: attachmentBounds, textContainer: textView.textContainer, characterIndex: range.location),
-       image.size.width > 0,
-       image.size.height > 0 {
-      return .image(image)
-    }
-
-    if let renderedImage = renderTextAttachment(in: textView, range: range) {
-      return .image(renderedImage)
-    }
-
     return nil
   }
 
@@ -701,47 +689,6 @@ class ExpoPasteInputView: ExpoView {
     return .imageData(data)
   }
 
-  private func renderTextAttachment(in textView: UITextView, range: NSRange) -> UIImage? {
-    let glyphRange = textView.layoutManager.glyphRange(forCharacterRange: range, actualCharacterRange: nil)
-    var rect = textView.layoutManager.boundingRect(forGlyphRange: glyphRange, in: textView.textContainer)
-
-    rect.origin.x += textView.textContainerInset.left - textView.contentOffset.x
-    rect.origin.y += textView.textContainerInset.top - textView.contentOffset.y
-    rect = rect.integral
-
-    guard rect.width > 1, rect.height > 1 else {
-      return nil
-    }
-
-    let format = UIGraphicsImageRendererFormat.default()
-    format.scale = textView.window?.screen.scale ?? UIScreen.main.scale
-    format.opaque = false
-
-    let image = UIGraphicsImageRenderer(size: rect.size, format: format).image { _ in
-      let drawRect = CGRect(
-        origin: CGPoint(x: -rect.origin.x, y: -rect.origin.y),
-        size: textView.bounds.size
-      )
-
-      if textView.window != nil {
-        textView.drawHierarchy(in: drawRect, afterScreenUpdates: false)
-      } else {
-        guard let context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext() else {
-          return
-        }
-
-        context.translateBy(x: -rect.origin.x, y: -rect.origin.y)
-        textView.layer.render(in: context)
-      }
-    }
-
-    guard image.size.width > 0, image.size.height > 0 else {
-      return nil
-    }
-
-    return image
-  }
-
   @available(iOS 18.0, *)
   private func handleAdaptiveImageGlyphInsertion(_ adaptiveGlyph: NSAdaptiveImageGlyph) -> Bool {
     guard let payload = extractMediaPayload(from: adaptiveGlyph) else {