diff --git a/React/Fabric/Mounting/ComponentViews/ScrollView/RCTPullToRefreshViewComponentView.h b/React/Fabric/Mounting/ComponentViews/ScrollView/RCTPullToRefreshViewComponentView.h
index 914a2494a..0deac55f2 100644
--- a/React/Fabric/Mounting/ComponentViews/ScrollView/RCTPullToRefreshViewComponentView.h
+++ b/React/Fabric/Mounting/ComponentViews/ScrollView/RCTPullToRefreshViewComponentView.h
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ NS_ASSUME_NONNULL_BEGIN
  */
 @interface RCTPullToRefreshViewComponentView : RCTViewComponentView <RCTCustomPullToRefreshViewProtocol>
 
+- (void)beginRefreshingProgrammatically;
+
 @end
 
 NS_ASSUME_NONNULL_END
diff --git a/React/Fabric/Mounting/ComponentViews/ScrollView/RCTScrollViewComponentView.mm b/React/Fabric/Mounting/ComponentViews/ScrollView/RCTScrollViewComponentView.mm
index 1494fd225..df643f5c8 100644
--- a/React/Fabric/Mounting/ComponentViews/ScrollView/RCTScrollViewComponentView.mm
+++ b/React/Fabric/Mounting/ComponentViews/ScrollView/RCTScrollViewComponentView.mm
@@ -1038,6 +1038,11 @@ static inline UIViewAnimationOptions animationOptionsWithCurve(UIViewAnimationCu
   }
 }
 
++ (BOOL)shouldBeRecycled
+{
+  return NO;
+}
+
 @end
 
 Class<RCTComponentViewProtocol> RCTScrollViewCls(void)
diff --git a/React/Views/RefreshControl/RCTRefreshControl.h b/React/Views/RefreshControl/RCTRefreshControl.h
index e9b330fa7..ec5f58c88 100644
--- a/React/Views/RefreshControl/RCTRefreshControl.h
+++ b/React/Views/RefreshControl/RCTRefreshControl.h
@@ -15,5 +15,8 @@
 @property (nonatomic, copy) NSString *title;
 @property (nonatomic, copy) RCTDirectEventBlock onRefresh;
 @property (nonatomic, weak) UIScrollView *scrollView;
+@property (nonatomic, copy) UIColor *customTintColor;
+
+- (void)forwarderBeginRefreshing;
 
 @end
diff --git a/React/Views/RefreshControl/RCTRefreshControl.m b/React/Views/RefreshControl/RCTRefreshControl.m
index 53bfd0470..ff1b1ed5e 100644
--- a/React/Views/RefreshControl/RCTRefreshControl.m
+++ b/React/Views/RefreshControl/RCTRefreshControl.m
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
   UIColor *_titleColor;
   CGFloat _progressViewOffset;
   BOOL _hasMovedToWindow;
+  UIColor *_customTintColor;
 }
 
 - (instancetype)init
@@ -58,6 +59,12 @@ RCT_NOT_IMPLEMENTED(-(instancetype)initWithCoder : (NSCoder *)aDecoder)
   _isInitialRender = false;
 }
 
+- (void)didMoveToSuperview
+{
+  [super didMoveToSuperview];
+  [self setTintColor:_customTintColor];
+}
+
 - (void)didMoveToWindow
 {
   [super didMoveToWindow];
@@ -221,4 +228,50 @@ RCT_NOT_IMPLEMENTED(-(instancetype)initWithCoder : (NSCoder *)aDecoder)
   }
 }
 
+// Fix for https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/43388
+// A bug in iOS 17.4 causes the haptic to not play when refreshing if the tintColor
+// is set before the refresh control gets added to the scrollview. We'll call this
+// function whenever the superview changes. We'll also call it if the value of customTintColor
+// changes.
+- (void)setTintColor:(UIColor *)tintColor
+{
+  if ([self.superview isKindOfClass:[UIScrollView class]] && self.tintColor != tintColor) {
+    [super setTintColor:tintColor];
+  }
+}
+
+// This method is used by Bluesky's ExpoScrollForwarder. This allows other React Native
+// libraries to perform a refresh of a scrollview and access the refresh control's onRefresh
+// function.
+- (void)forwarderBeginRefreshing
+{
+  _refreshingProgrammatically = NO;
+
+  [self sizeToFit];
+
+  if (!self.scrollView) {
+    return;
+  }
+
+  UIScrollView *scrollView = (UIScrollView *)self.scrollView;
+
+  [UIView animateWithDuration:0.3
+    delay:0
+    options:UIViewAnimationOptionBeginFromCurrentState
+    animations:^(void) {
+      // Whenever we call this method, the scrollview will always be at a position of
+      // -130 or less. Scrolling back to -65 simulates the default behavior of RCTRefreshControl
+      [scrollView setContentOffset:CGPointMake(0, -65)];
+    }
+    completion:^(__unused BOOL finished) {
+      [super beginRefreshing];
+      [self setCurrentRefreshingState:super.refreshing];
+
+      if (self->_onRefresh) {
+        self->_onRefresh(nil);
+      }
+    }
+  ];
+}
+
 @end
diff --git a/React/Views/RefreshControl/RCTRefreshControlManager.m b/React/Views/RefreshControl/RCTRefreshControlManager.m
index 40aaf9c51..1c60164b6 100644
--- a/React/Views/RefreshControl/RCTRefreshControlManager.m
+++ b/React/Views/RefreshControl/RCTRefreshControlManager.m
@@ -22,11 +22,12 @@ RCT_EXPORT_MODULE()
 
 RCT_EXPORT_VIEW_PROPERTY(onRefresh, RCTDirectEventBlock)
 RCT_EXPORT_VIEW_PROPERTY(refreshing, BOOL)
-RCT_EXPORT_VIEW_PROPERTY(tintColor, UIColor)
 RCT_EXPORT_VIEW_PROPERTY(title, NSString)
 RCT_EXPORT_VIEW_PROPERTY(titleColor, UIColor)
 RCT_EXPORT_VIEW_PROPERTY(progressViewOffset, CGFloat)
 
+RCT_REMAP_VIEW_PROPERTY(tintColor, customTintColor, UIColor)
+
 RCT_EXPORT_METHOD(setNativeRefreshing : (nonnull NSNumber *)viewTag toRefreshing : (BOOL)refreshing)
 {
   [self.bridge.uiManager addUIBlock:^(RCTUIManager *uiManager, NSDictionary<NSNumber *, UIView *> *viewRegistry) {
diff --git a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/core/JavaTimerManager.kt b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/core/JavaTimerManager.kt
index 8b6571698..27c97bfeb 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/core/JavaTimerManager.kt
+++ b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/core/JavaTimerManager.kt
@@ -313,8 +313,9 @@ public open class JavaTimerManager(
       // We also capture the idleCallbackRunnable to tentatively fix:
       // https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/44842
       currentIdleCallbackRunnable?.cancel()
-      currentIdleCallbackRunnable = IdleCallbackRunnable(frameTimeNanos)
-      reactApplicationContext.runOnJSQueueThread(currentIdleCallbackRunnable)
+      val idleCallbackRunnable = IdleCallbackRunnable(frameTimeNanos)
+      currentIdleCallbackRunnable = idleCallbackRunnable
+      reactApplicationContext.runOnJSQueueThread(idleCallbackRunnable)
       reactChoreographer.postFrameCallback(ReactChoreographer.CallbackType.IDLE_EVENT, this)
     }
   }
diff --git a/third-party-podspecs/fmt.podspec b/third-party-podspecs/fmt.podspec
index 2f38990e2..9b02e481e 100644
--- a/third-party-podspecs/fmt.podspec
+++ b/third-party-podspecs/fmt.podspec
@@ -26,4 +26,11 @@ Pod::Spec.new do |spec|
   spec.public_header_files = "include/fmt/*.h"
   spec.header_mappings_dir = "include"
   spec.source_files = ["include/fmt/*.h", "src/format.cc"]
+
+  # TODO: Remove after upgrading React Native past 0.83.x
+  # Fix fmt 11.0.2 consteval build error with Xcode 26.4 (facebook/react-native#55601)
+  # Fixed in RN 0.84+ which bumps fmt to a compatible version.
+  spec.prepare_command = <<~SCRIPT
+    perl -i -pe 's/^#  define FMT_USE_CONSTEVAL 1$/#  define FMT_USE_CONSTEVAL 0/' include/fmt/base.h
+  SCRIPT
 end