diff --git a/TestsExample/App.js b/TestsExample/App.js
index 8e04dd995a..e81f44c3e9 100644
--- a/TestsExample/App.js
+++ b/TestsExample/App.js
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ import Test1227 from './src/Test1227';
 import Test1228 from './src/Test1228';
 import Test1259 from './src/Test1259';
 import Test1260 from './src/Test1260';
+import Test1299 from './src/Test1299';
 
 enableFreeze(true);
 
diff --git a/TestsExample/src/Test1299.tsx b/TestsExample/src/Test1299.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5104f4da86
--- /dev/null
+++ b/TestsExample/src/Test1299.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+import * as React from 'react';
+import { View, StyleSheet, Button } from 'react-native';
+import { createNativeStackNavigator } from 'react-native-screens/native-stack';
+import { NavigationContainer, useNavigation } from '@react-navigation/native';
+
+export const Modal1 = React.memo(() => {
+  return <View style={{ flexGrow: 1, backgroundColor: 'red', opacity: 0.7 }} />;
+});
+
+export const Modal2 = React.memo(() => {
+  return (
+    <View style={{ flexGrow: 1, backgroundColor: 'blue', opacity: 0.7 }} />
+  );
+});
+export const MainScreen = React.memo(() => {
+  const navigation = useNavigation();
+  return (
+    <View
+      style={{ flexGrow: 1, justifyContent: 'center', alignItems: 'center' }}>
+      <Button title={'Open modal 1'} onPress={() => {
+        navigation.navigate('modalScreen-1')
+      }}/>
+      <Button title={'Open modal 2'} onPress={() => {
+        navigation.navigate('modalScreen-2')
+      }}/>
+    </View>
+  );
+});
+
+const Stack = createNativeStackNavigator();
+
+export default function App() {
+  return (
+    <View style={styles.container}>
+      <NavigationContainer>
+        <Stack.Navigator>
+          <Stack.Screen key={'main'} name={'main'} component={MainScreen} />
+          <Stack.Screen
+            key={'modalScreen-1'}
+            name={'modalScreen-1'}
+            component={Modal1}
+            options={{ stackPresentation: 'modal', headerShown: false }}
+          />
+          <Stack.Screen
+            key={'modalScreen-2'}
+            name={'modalScreen-2'}
+            component={Modal2}
+            options={{ stackPresentation: 'modal', headerShown: false }}
+          />
+        </Stack.Navigator>
+      </NavigationContainer>
+    </View>
+  );
+}
+
+const styles = StyleSheet.create({
+  container: {
+    flex: 1,
+    justifyContent: 'center',
+    backgroundColor: '#ecf0f1',
+  },
+});
diff --git a/ios/RNSScreenStack.m b/ios/RNSScreenStack.m
index 9548ff7224..47c8f8da35 100644
--- a/ios/RNSScreenStack.m
+++ b/ios/RNSScreenStack.m
@@ -142,6 +142,10 @@ - (void)presentationControllerDidDismiss:(UIPresentationController *)presentatio
     // that can handle it when dismissing a modal, the same for orientation
     [RNSScreenWindowTraits updateWindowTraits];
     [_presentedModals removeObject:presentationController.presentedViewController];
+    // we double check if there are no new controllers pending to be presented since someone could
+    // have tried to push another one during the transition
+    _updatingModals = NO;
+    [self updateContainer];
     if (self.onFinishTransitioning) {
       // instead of directly triggering onFinishTransitioning this time we enqueue the event on the
       // main queue. We do that because onDismiss event is also enqueued and we want for the transition
@@ -362,6 +366,14 @@ - (void)setModalViewControllers:(NSArray<UIViewController *> *)controllers
         BOOL shouldAnimate = lastModal && [next isKindOfClass:[RNSScreen class]] &&
             ((RNSScreenView *)next.view).stackAnimation != RNSScreenStackAnimationNone;
 
+        // if you want to present another modal quick enough after dismissing the previous one,
+        // it will result in wrong changeRootController, see repro in
+        // https://github.com/software-mansion/react-native-screens/issues/1299 We call `updateContainer` again in
+        // `presentationControllerDidDismiss` to cover this case and present new controller
+        if (previous.beingDismissed) {
+          return;
+        }
+
         [previous presentViewController:next
                                animated:shouldAnimate
                              completion:^{