diff --git a/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/apple/RNManualActivationRecognizer.m b/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/apple/RNManualActivationRecognizer.m
index 2ecaef6e2e..d99b1eed3c 100644
--- a/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/apple/RNManualActivationRecognizer.m
+++ b/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/apple/RNManualActivationRecognizer.m
@@ -22,24 +22,31 @@ - (id)initWithGestureHandler:(RNGestureHandler *)gestureHandler
 - (void)handleGesture:(UIGestureRecognizer *)recognizer
 {
   if (recognizer.state == UIGestureRecognizerStateBegan) {
+#if TARGET_OS_OSX
+    // On iOS, this recognizer completing is enough to deny the handler's recognizer —
+    // UIKit fails a recognizer whose required-to-fail dependency recognizes. AppKit
+    // does not do this reliably: completing the blocker can flush the dependent
+    // recognizer's buffered recognition instead of discarding it.
+    _handler.recognizer.state = UIGestureRecognizerStateFailed;
+#endif
     self.state = UIGestureRecognizerStateEnded;
     [self reset];
   }
 }
 
 #if TARGET_OS_OSX
-- (void)mouseUp:(NSEvent *)event
+- (void)mouseDown:(NSEvent *)event
 {
-  [super mouseUp:event];
+  [super mouseDown:event];
 
-  _activePointers -= 1;
+  _activePointers += 1;
 }
 
-- (void)mouseDown:(NSEvent *)event
+- (void)mouseUp:(NSEvent *)event
 {
-  [super mouseDown:event];
+  [super mouseUp:event];
 
-  _activePointers += 1;
+  _activePointers -= 1;
 
   if (_activePointers == 0) {
     self.state = UIGestureRecognizerStateBegan;
@@ -80,6 +87,7 @@ - (void)touchesCancelled:(NSSet<RNGHUITouch *> *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)ev
 - (void)reset
 {
   self.enabled = YES;
+  _activePointers = 0;
   [super reset];
 }
 
@@ -106,4 +114,15 @@ - (BOOL)shouldBeRequiredToFailByGestureRecognizer:(UIGestureRecognizer *)otherGe
   return NO;
 }
 
+#if TARGET_OS_OSX
+// On iOS the method above is a UIGestureRecognizer subclass override, called by the system
+// to establish the failure requirement. NSGestureRecognizer has no such subclass hook —
+// AppKit only consults the delegate, so forward the delegate callback to the shared logic.
+- (BOOL)gestureRecognizer:(NSGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer
+    shouldBeRequiredToFailByGestureRecognizer:(NSGestureRecognizer *)otherGestureRecognizer
+{
+  return [self shouldBeRequiredToFailByGestureRecognizer:otherGestureRecognizer];
+}
+#endif
+
 @end