diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8e79617208..127939ac55 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
 - Adds an experiment to shorten init time. [Adlai Holler](https://github.com/Adlai-Holler)
 - Adds a check that Texture is compiled with stdc++11 as specified by the podfile. gnu++11 can cause subtle issues that are currently being investigated. [Adlai Holler](https://github.com/Adlai-Holler)
 - Adds an experiment to call ASNetworkImageNode callbacks off main. [Garrett Moon](https://github.com/garrettmoon)
+- Prevent UITextView from updating contentOffset while deallocating [Michael Schneider](https://github.com/maicki)
 
 ## 2.6
 - [Xcode 9] Updated to require Xcode 9 (to fix warnings) [Garrett Moon](https://github.com/garrettmoon)
diff --git a/Source/TextKit/ASTextKitComponents.mm b/Source/TextKit/ASTextKitComponents.mm
index dbb611b78f..2a741db481 100644
--- a/Source/TextKit/ASTextKitComponents.mm
+++ b/Source/TextKit/ASTextKitComponents.mm
@@ -20,7 +20,10 @@
 
 #import <tgmath.h>
 
-@interface ASTextKitComponentsTextView ()
+@interface ASTextKitComponentsTextView () {
+  // Prevent UITextView from updating contentOffset while deallocating: https://github.com/TextureGroup/Texture/issues/860
+  BOOL _deallocating;
+}
 @property (atomic, assign) CGRect threadSafeBounds;
 @end
 
@@ -31,10 +34,16 @@
   self = [super initWithFrame:frame textContainer:textContainer];
   if (self) {
     _threadSafeBounds = self.bounds;
+    _deallocating = NO;
   }
   return self;
 }
 
+- (void)dealloc
+{
+  _deallocating = YES;
+}
+
 - (void)setFrame:(CGRect)frame
 {
   ASDisplayNodeAssertMainThread();
@@ -49,6 +58,16 @@
   self.threadSafeBounds = bounds;
 }
 
+- (void)setContentOffset:(CGPoint)contentOffset
+{
+  if (_deallocating) {
+    return;
+  }
+  
+  [super setContentOffset:contentOffset];
+}
+
+
 @end
 
 @interface ASTextKitComponents ()