diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6edcd9f9..01641b72 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -106,6 +106,8 @@ For more examples, see the [example app](example/src): nested pagers, keyboard h
 
 `PagerView` also accepts all standard `View` props.
 
+Leaving a page blurs an input focused on it, whatever `keyboardDismissMode` is set to. On iOS the blur follows `onPageSelected`, including the one sent on mount, and is held off while any scroll view in the app is being dragged or is still decelerating, so a swipe never dismisses the keyboard under the user's finger. Because the blur follows the event, it never takes the focus from an input an `onPageSelected` handler focused, though the keyboard can close and reopen on the way. On iOS that event arrives when the pager starts moving rather than when it settles, so a focus call made from the handler during an animated `setPage` can land on a page that is not on screen yet and do nothing; focus from `onPageScrollStateChanged` once the state is `idle` where it has to hold.
+
 ### Methods
 
 | Method                                     | Description                                                                                                                                                 | Platform |
diff --git a/e2e/README.md b/e2e/README.md
index 464af1f6..491ce267 100644
--- a/e2e/README.md
+++ b/e2e/README.md
@@ -40,6 +40,14 @@ bun run e2e:test:android
 From this directory, `bun run test:ios -- --tag smoke` runs only the smoke
 test, and `bun run list` prints every test without running it.
 
+### Software keyboard on iOS
+
+The keyboard tests (`issue-1096-keyboard-shrink` and `issue-1154-page-change-focus`) need the simulator to show its own keyboard. A device that has seen a Mac keyboard once shows none again, across boots, and `Simulator.app`'s `ConnectHardwareKeyboard` preference does not reach a device the engine booted itself, so clear the device's own flag:
+
+```bash
+xcrun simctl spawn booted defaults write com.apple.keyboard.preferences HardwareKeyboardLastSeen -bool false
+```
+
 ### Several simulators at once
 
 With nothing pinned, the engine uses every booted simulator as the pool, so
diff --git a/e2e/tests/issues/issue-1154-page-change-focus.e2e.ts b/e2e/tests/issues/issue-1154-page-change-focus.e2e.ts
index ffcff23b..da3f44b1 100644
--- a/e2e/tests/issues/issue-1154-page-change-focus.e2e.ts
+++ b/e2e/tests/issues/issue-1154-page-change-focus.e2e.ts
@@ -4,21 +4,29 @@ import { openExample } from '../support/app.ts';
 
 freshAppBeforeEach();
 
-// Android-only: on iOS the pager never kept focus on the page being left.
-const options = { tags: ['regression', 'issue-1154'], platforms: ['android'] };
+const options = { tags: ['regression', 'issue-1154'] };
 
 /**
- * Checks the selected page and the focused input. The keyboard part of the
- * status line is not checked: agent-device swaps in its own headless IME for
- * the run, so React Native never reports the keyboard as shown.
+ * Checks the selected page, the focused input, and the keyboard, which has to
+ * follow the focus. The keyboard is checked on iOS only: Android runs a
+ * headless IME that never reports it. An iOS check that fails with
+ * `Keyboard: hidden` means the simulator is showing no software keyboard
+ * because it has seen a Mac keyboard once, which it remembers across boots.
+ * `xcrun simctl spawn booted defaults write com.apple.keyboard.preferences
+ * HardwareKeyboardLastSeen -bool false` clears that.
  */
 async function expectStatus(
   screen: Screen,
+  platform: string,
   page: number,
   focused: string
 ): Promise<void> {
+  const keyboard =
+    platform === 'ios'
+      ? ` Keyboard: ${focused === 'none' ? 'hidden' : 'visible'}`
+      : '';
   await expect(screen.getByTestId('issue-1154-status')).toHaveText(
-    new RegExp(`^Selected: ${page} \\| Focused: ${focused} \\|`)
+    new RegExp(`^Selected: ${page} \\| Focused: ${focused} \\|${keyboard}`)
   );
 }
 
@@ -26,6 +34,7 @@ async function expectStatus(
 async function focusInputOnPage(
   app: App,
   screen: Screen,
+  platform: string,
   page: number
 ): Promise<void> {
   await openExample(app, screen, 'Issue #1154 Page Change Focus Repro');
@@ -33,50 +42,64 @@ async function focusInputOnPage(
     await screen.getByTestId(`issue-1154-go-${page}`).tap();
   }
   await screen.getByTestId(`issue-1154-input-${page}`).tap();
-  await expectStatus(screen, page, `input ${page}`);
+  await expectStatus(screen, platform, page, `input ${page}`);
 }
 
 test(
   'leaving a page with setPage blurs its input',
   options,
-  async ({ app, screen }) => {
-    await focusInputOnPage(app, screen, 1);
+  async ({ app, screen, platform }) => {
+    await focusInputOnPage(app, screen, platform, 1);
 
     // Before the fix the off-screen input kept focus.
     await screen.getByTestId('issue-1154-go-0').tap();
-    await expectStatus(screen, 0, 'none');
+    await expectStatus(screen, platform, 0, 'none');
   }
 );
 
 test(
   'leaving a page with a swipe blurs its input',
   options,
-  async ({ app, screen }) => {
-    await focusInputOnPage(app, screen, 0);
+  async ({ app, screen, platform }) => {
+    await focusInputOnPage(app, screen, platform, 0);
 
     // Swipe on the page title: a swipe that starts on the input is taken by
     // the input instead of the pager.
     await screen
       .getByTestId('issue-1154-label-0')
-      .swipe({ direction: 'right' });
-    await expectStatus(screen, 1, 'none');
+      .swipe({ direction: 'right', momentum: 'fast' });
+    await expectStatus(screen, platform, 1, 'none');
   }
 );
 
 test(
   'an input focused on the new page keeps focus',
   options,
-  async ({ app, screen }) => {
-    await focusInputOnPage(app, screen, 1);
+  async ({ app, screen, platform }) => {
+    await focusInputOnPage(app, screen, platform, 1);
 
-    // Focused right after setPage, while the pager is still animating.
+    // Focused right after setPage, before the pager has settled.
     await screen.getByTestId('issue-1154-mode-onPress').tap();
     await screen.getByTestId('issue-1154-go-0').tap();
-    await expectStatus(screen, 0, 'input 0');
+    await expectStatus(screen, platform, 0, 'input 0');
+  }
+);
+
+// A focus call made from an `onPageSelected` handler is covered for a swipe
+// only. iOS reports the selection when SwiftUI applies it, at the start of an
+// animated `setPage`, and a focus call made then can land on a page that is
+// not in the window yet, where it silently does nothing.
+
+test(
+  'a swipe keeps the focus the new page takes from onPageSelected',
+  options,
+  async ({ app, screen, platform }) => {
+    await focusInputOnPage(app, screen, platform, 0);
 
-    // Focused from onPageSelected, once the pager has settled.
     await screen.getByTestId('issue-1154-mode-onSelected').tap();
-    await screen.getByTestId('issue-1154-go-1').tap();
-    await expectStatus(screen, 1, 'input 1');
+    await screen
+      .getByTestId('issue-1154-label-0')
+      .swipe({ direction: 'right', momentum: 'fast' });
+    await expectStatus(screen, platform, 1, 'input 1');
   }
 );
diff --git a/example/src/gh-issues/Issue1154PageChangeFocusRepro.tsx b/example/src/gh-issues/Issue1154PageChangeFocusRepro.tsx
index edad1eaa..317a4a7d 100644
--- a/example/src/gh-issues/Issue1154PageChangeFocusRepro.tsx
+++ b/example/src/gh-issues/Issue1154PageChangeFocusRepro.tsx
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 /**
- * Repro for #1154: on Android, a focused TextInput must lose focus and hide
- * the keyboard when its page is left, via setPage or a swipe. The mode buttons
- * focus the new page's input from onPageSelected or right after setPage, which
- * must keep working.
+ * Repro for #1154: a focused TextInput must lose focus and hide the keyboard
+ * when its page is left, via setPage or a swipe. The mode buttons focus the
+ * new page's input from onPageSelected or right after setPage, which must
+ * keep working.
  */
 import React, { useEffect, useRef, useState } from 'react';
 import {
diff --git a/ios/PagerViewProvider.swift b/ios/PagerViewProvider.swift
index 82cf6f1e..39d1a4de 100644
--- a/ios/PagerViewProvider.swift
+++ b/ios/PagerViewProvider.swift
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import UIKit
   }
 }
 
+@MainActor
 @objc public protocol PagerViewProviderDelegate {
   func onPageScroll(data: OnPageScrollEventData)
   func onPageScrollStateChanged(state: PageScrollState)
@@ -63,11 +64,80 @@ import UIKit
     }
   }
 
+  private lazy var selectionObserver = PagerSelectionObserver(provider: self)
+
   @objc public convenience init(delegate: PagerViewProviderDelegate) {
     self.init()
     self.delegate = delegate
   }
 
+  fileprivate func forward(pageScroll data: OnPageScrollEventData) {
+    delegate?.onPageScroll(data: data)
+  }
+
+  fileprivate func forward(scrollState state: PageScrollState) {
+    delegate?.onPageScrollStateChanged(state: state)
+  }
+
+  fileprivate func handle(pageSelected position: Int) {
+    delegate?.onPageSelected(position: position)
+    scheduleBlur()
+  }
+
+  /// Resigning inside a selection change forces a synchronous layout pass that
+  /// applies the change outside its animation. Default mode also holds the
+  /// blur for the whole of a swipe: a gesture and the deceleration that
+  /// follows it keep the run loop in tracking mode, so the keyboard cannot
+  /// close under the finger. The timer this schedules wakes the run loop,
+  /// which a queued block would not.
+  private func scheduleBlur() {
+    cancelScheduledBlur()
+    perform(#selector(blurOutsideCurrentPage), with: nil, afterDelay: 0, inModes: [.default])
+  }
+
+  private func cancelScheduledBlur() {
+    NSObject.cancelPreviousPerformRequests(
+      withTarget: self,
+      selector: #selector(blurOutsideCurrentPage),
+      object: nil
+    )
+  }
+
+  /// The selected page is read here rather than captured when the blur was
+  /// scheduled, so a second page change that arrives first decides which page
+  /// keeps its input. A responder inside the pager but outside its pages is
+  /// SwiftUI's own, and one that takes no text, such as a key-command view, is
+  /// not an input.
+  @objc private func blurOutsideCurrentPage() {
+    let page = props.currentPage
+    guard props.children[safe: page] != nil else {
+      return
+    }
+    // A window has one first responder, so the first page that holds it is the
+    // only one that can.
+    for (index, child) in props.children.enumerated() where index != page {
+      guard let responder = Self.firstResponder(in: child.view) else {
+        continue
+      }
+      if responder is UIKeyInput || responder.inputView != nil {
+        responder.resignFirstResponder()
+      }
+      return
+    }
+  }
+
+  private static func firstResponder(in view: UIView) -> UIView? {
+    if view.isFirstResponder {
+      return view
+    }
+    for subview in view.subviews {
+      if let responder = firstResponder(in: subview) {
+        return responder
+      }
+    }
+    return nil
+  }
+
   @objc(insertChild:atIndex:)
   public func insertChild(_ child: UIView, at index: Int) {
     guard index >= 0 && index <= props.children.count else {
@@ -95,6 +165,9 @@ import UIKit
     super.willMove(toWindow: newWindow)
     if newWindow != nil {
       syncParentViewController()
+    } else {
+      // A scheduled blur retains the pager until it fires.
+      cancelScheduledBlur()
     }
   }
 
@@ -237,7 +310,7 @@ import UIKit
     // insets (the RN screen's, including a native search bar) and re-injects
     // them; the two are independent.
     let hostingController = UIHostingController(
-      rootView: PagerView(props: props, delegate: delegate),
+      rootView: PagerView(props: props, delegate: selectionObserver),
       ignoreSafeArea: true
     )
     self.hostingController = hostingController
@@ -268,3 +341,25 @@ import UIKit
     hostingController.didMove(toParent: parentViewController)
   }
 }
+
+/// A separate type keeps the delegate methods off `PagerViewProvider`, where
+/// conforming to an `@objc` protocol would make them public.
+private final class PagerSelectionObserver: NSObject, PagerViewProviderDelegate {
+  private weak var provider: PagerViewProvider?
+
+  init(provider: PagerViewProvider) {
+    self.provider = provider
+  }
+
+  func onPageScroll(data: OnPageScrollEventData) {
+    provider?.forward(pageScroll: data)
+  }
+
+  func onPageScrollStateChanged(state: PageScrollState) {
+    provider?.forward(scrollState: state)
+  }
+
+  func onPageSelected(position: Int) {
+    provider?.handle(pageSelected: position)
+  }
+}