diff --git a/apps/ios/Shared/Views/Chat/ChatItem/FramedItemView.swift b/apps/ios/Shared/Views/Chat/ChatItem/FramedItemView.swift
index 074d8b122b..82367a21b2 100644
--- a/apps/ios/Shared/Views/Chat/ChatItem/FramedItemView.swift
+++ b/apps/ios/Shared/Views/Chat/ChatItem/FramedItemView.swift
@@ -359,7 +359,12 @@ struct FramedItemView: View {
             let dedupedChatItems = chatItems.filter { !im.chatItemIds.contains($0.id) }
             reversedPage.append(contentsOf: dedupedChatItems.reversed())
 
+            var itemsToDrop = Set<Int64>()
             await MainActor.run {
+                if let g = im.gap {
+                    itemsToDrop = Set(im.reversedChatItems.suffix(g.size).map { $0.id })
+                }
+                
                 let itemCount = im.reversedChatItems.count
                 if let size = gap, size - itemCount > 0  {
                     im.gap = ChatGap(index: itemCount, size: size - itemCount)
@@ -367,6 +372,17 @@ struct FramedItemView: View {
                 im.reversedChatItems.append(contentsOf: reversedPage)
             }
             
+            if (itemsToDrop.count > 0) {
+                DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + 1) {
+                    Task {
+                        if let g = im.gap {
+                            im.gap = ChatGap(index: g.index - itemsToDrop.count, size: g.size + itemsToDrop.count)
+                        }
+                        im.reversedChatItems.removeAll(where: { itemsToDrop.contains($0.id) })
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            
             return reversedPage
         } catch let error {
             logger.error("apiGetChat error: \(responseError(error))")