diff --git a/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/gesturehandler/core/GestureHandlerOrchestrator.kt b/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/gesturehandler/core/GestureHandlerOrchestrator.kt
index 4917f8487a..2e1f7c23e3 100644
--- a/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/gesturehandler/core/GestureHandlerOrchestrator.kt
+++ b/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/gesturehandler/core/GestureHandlerOrchestrator.kt
@@ -871,9 +871,11 @@ class GestureHandlerOrchestrator(
                 // A child view is handling touch, also extract handlers attached to this view
                 if (found) {
                   recordViewHandlersForPointer(view, coords, pointerId, event)
-                } else if (view is RNGestureHandlerDetectorView) {
+                } else if (view is RNGestureHandlerDetectorView && !allChildrenHidden(view)) {
                   // No child consumed the touch, but we still record the detector's own handlers so
-                  // that `hitSlop` expansion keeps working. The detector's frame ignores
+                  // that `hitSlop` expansion keeps working. Skipped when every child is hidden or
+                  // below the alpha gate, otherwise the detector would stay tappable while its
+                  // content is invisible. The detector's frame ignores
                   // child transforms, so for a single-child detector we check bounds in the child's
                   // transform-aware coordinate space - otherwise the detector would steal presses over
                   // areas its content has been moved away from.
@@ -911,6 +913,10 @@ class GestureHandlerOrchestrator(
 
   private fun canReceiveEvents(view: View) = view.visibility == View.VISIBLE && view.alpha >= minimumAlphaForTraversal
 
+  // True when the group has children and none of them can receive events (hidden or below the alpha gate).
+  private fun allChildrenHidden(viewGroup: ViewGroup) =
+    viewGroup.childCount > 0 && (0 until viewGroup.childCount).none { canReceiveEvents(viewGroup.getChildAt(it)) }
+
   // if view is not a view group it is clipping, otherwise we check for `getClipChildren` flag to
   // be turned on and also confirm with the ViewConfigHelper implementation
   private fun isClipping(view: View) = view !is ViewGroup || viewConfigHelper.isViewClippingChildren(view)
diff --git a/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/gesturehandler/react/RNGestureHandlerRootHelper.kt b/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/gesturehandler/react/RNGestureHandlerRootHelper.kt
index 63001c1799..1dd76feaed 100644
--- a/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/gesturehandler/react/RNGestureHandlerRootHelper.kt
+++ b/packages/react-native-gesture-handler/android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/gesturehandler/react/RNGestureHandlerRootHelper.kt
@@ -185,7 +185,8 @@ class RNGestureHandlerRootHelper(private val context: ReactContext, wrappedView:
   }
 
   companion object {
-    private const val MIN_ALPHA_FOR_TOUCH = 0.1f
+    // Same threshold as UIKit / RCTViewComponentView hit testing on iOS.
+    private const val MIN_ALPHA_FOR_TOUCH = 0.01f
     private fun findRootViewTag(viewGroup: ViewGroup): ViewGroup {
       UiThreadUtil.assertOnUiThread()
       var parent: ViewParent? = viewGroup