diff --git a/Source/Private/ASLayoutTransition.mm b/Source/Private/ASLayoutTransition.mm
index 85cfcd2085..f1b15dd02a 100644
--- a/Source/Private/ASLayoutTransition.mm
+++ b/Source/Private/ASLayoutTransition.mm
@@ -137,7 +137,9 @@ static inline BOOL ASLayoutCanTransitionAsynchronous(ASLayout *layout) {
     // In this case we should only remove the subnode if it's still a subnode of the _node that executes a layout transition.
     // It can happen that a node already did a layout transition and added this subnode, in this case the subnode
     // would be removed from the new node instead of _node
-    [subnode _removeFromSupernodeIfEqualTo:_node];
+    if (_node.automaticallyManagesSubnodes) {
+      [subnode _removeFromSupernodeIfEqualTo:_node];
+    }
   }
 }