diff --git a/packages/react-native/src/private/webapis/dom/abort-api/AbortController.js b/packages/react-native/src/private/webapis/dom/abort-api/AbortController.js
index 2dcac12de310..f093e25ee54e 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/src/private/webapis/dom/abort-api/AbortController.js
+++ b/packages/react-native/src/private/webapis/dom/abort-api/AbortController.js
@@ -72,10 +72,7 @@ function getSignal(controller: AbortController): AbortSignal {
   const signal = controller[SIGNAL_KEY];
   if (signal == null) {
     throw new TypeError(
-      `Expected 'this' to be an 'AbortController' object, but got ${
-        // $FlowExpectedError[invalid-compare]
-        controller === null ? 'null' : typeof controller
-      }`,
+      `Expected 'this' to be an 'AbortController' object, but got ${typeof controller}`,
     );
   }
   return signal;
diff --git a/packages/react-native/src/private/webapis/dom/abort-api/AbortSignal.js b/packages/react-native/src/private/webapis/dom/abort-api/AbortSignal.js
index d45a8dae2e1e..9b0e42cd30db 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/src/private/webapis/dom/abort-api/AbortSignal.js
+++ b/packages/react-native/src/private/webapis/dom/abort-api/AbortSignal.js
@@ -91,30 +91,36 @@ export class AbortSignal extends EventTarget {
       throw new TypeError('The signals value must be an instance of Array');
     }
 
-    const controller = new AbortController();
-    const listeners = [];
-    const cleanup = () => listeners.forEach(unsubscribe => unsubscribe());
-
+    // First pass: validate that every item is an AbortSignal.
     for (let i = 0; i < signals.length; i++) {
       const signal = signals[i];
-
-      // Validate that each item is an AbortSignal
       if (!(signal instanceof AbortSignal)) {
-        cleanup(); // Remove all listeners added so far
         throw new TypeError(
           'The "signals[' +
             i +
             ']" argument must be an instance of AbortSignal',
         );
       }
+    }
 
-      // Abort immediately if one of the signals is already aborted
+    // Second pass: short-circuit if any of the signals is already aborted. No
+    // listeners have been registered yet, so there is nothing to clean up if
+    // we return early.
+    for (let i = 0; i < signals.length; i++) {
+      const signal = signals[i];
       if (signal.aborted) {
-        cleanup(); // Remove all listeners added so far
-        controller.abort(signal.reason);
-        break;
+        return AbortSignal.abort(signal.reason);
       }
+    }
+
+    // Third pass: none of the signals is aborted, so subscribe to all of them
+    // and abort the resulting signal when any of them aborts.
+    const controller = new AbortController();
+    const listeners = [];
+    const cleanup = () => listeners.forEach(unsubscribe => unsubscribe());
 
+    for (let i = 0; i < signals.length; i++) {
+      const signal = signals[i];
       const onAbort = () => {
         controller.abort(signal.reason);
         cleanup();
diff --git a/packages/react-native/src/private/webapis/dom/abort-api/__tests__/AbortController-itest.js b/packages/react-native/src/private/webapis/dom/abort-api/__tests__/AbortController-itest.js
index 81a80f907aaf..4d5fe296a3f6 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/src/private/webapis/dom/abort-api/__tests__/AbortController-itest.js
+++ b/packages/react-native/src/private/webapis/dom/abort-api/__tests__/AbortController-itest.js
@@ -373,6 +373,26 @@ describe('AbortController', () => {
         'The "signals[1]" argument must be an instance of AbortSignal',
       );
     });
+
+    it('should validate every element before short-circuiting on an already-aborted signal', () => {
+      const aborted = new AbortController();
+      aborted.abort(new Error('already aborted'));
+
+      let thrown;
+      try {
+        // $FlowExpectedError[incompatible-type]
+        AbortSignal.any([aborted.signal, {}]);
+      } catch (error) {
+        thrown = error;
+      }
+
+      expect(thrown).toBeInstanceOf(TypeError);
+      // $FlowExpectedError[incompatible-type]
+      const typeError: TypeError = thrown;
+      expect(typeError.message).toBe(
+        'The "signals[1]" argument must be an instance of AbortSignal',
+      );
+    });
   });
 
   describe("'timeout' static method", () => {