diff --git a/engine/src/flutter/shell/platform/darwin/ios/framework/Source/FlutterEngine.mm b/engine/src/flutter/shell/platform/darwin/ios/framework/Source/FlutterEngine.mm
index 9fc52d4d55..b5398514d2 100644
--- a/engine/src/flutter/shell/platform/darwin/ios/framework/Source/FlutterEngine.mm
+++ b/engine/src/flutter/shell/platform/darwin/ios/framework/Source/FlutterEngine.mm
@@ -1359,34 +1359,37 @@ static void SetEntryPoint(flutter::Settings* settings, NSString* entrypoint, NSS
 - (void)waitForFirstFrame:(NSTimeInterval)timeout
                  callback:(void (^_Nonnull)(BOOL didTimeout))callback {
   dispatch_queue_t queue = dispatch_get_global_queue(QOS_CLASS_BACKGROUND, 0);
+  dispatch_group_t group = dispatch_group_create();
+
   __weak FlutterEngine* weakSelf = self;
-  dispatch_async(queue, ^{
+  __block BOOL didTimeout = NO;
+  dispatch_group_async(group, queue, ^{
     FlutterEngine* strongSelf = weakSelf;
     if (!strongSelf) {
       return;
     }
 
     fml::TimeDelta waitTime = fml::TimeDelta::FromMilliseconds(timeout * 1000);
-    BOOL didTimeout =
+    didTimeout =
         strongSelf.shell.WaitForFirstFrame(waitTime).code() == fml::StatusCode::kDeadlineExceeded;
-    dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
-      // Capture strongSelf to ensure that destruction does not occur on a background thread.
-      //
-      // The containing block, executed on a background thread, strongly captures self, then makes a
-      // blocking call to self.shell.WaitForFirstFrame(). If, during this time, all other instances
-      // of self are released, the containing block's reference would be the last one, resulting in
-      // `[FlutterEngine dealloc]` being called when it goes out of scope at the end of that block,
-      // on a background thread. FlutterEngine owns a reference to a PlatformViewsController, which
-      // owns a WeakPtrFactory whose destructor asserts that it be freed on the platform thread. To
-      // avoid this, we capture strongSelf in the current block, which is executed on the platform
-      // thread.
-      //
-      // strongSelf is never nil here since it's a strong reference that's verified non-nil above,
-      // but we use a conditional check to avoid and unused expression compiler warning.
-      if (strongSelf) {
-        callback(didTimeout);
-      }
-    });
+  });
+
+  // Only execute the main queue task once the background task has completely finished executing.
+  dispatch_group_notify(group, dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
+    // Strongly capture self on the task dispatched to the main thread.
+    //
+    // When we capture weakSelf strongly in the above block on a background thread, we risk the
+    // possibility that all other strong references to FlutterEngine go out of scope while the block
+    // executes and that the engine is dealloc'ed at the end of the above block on a background
+    // thread. FlutterEngine is not safe to release on any thread other than the main thread.
+    //
+    // self is never nil here since it's a strong reference that's verified non-nil above, but we
+    // use a conditional check to avoid an unused expression compiler warning.
+    FlutterEngine* strongSelf = self;
+    if (!strongSelf) {
+      return;
+    }
+    callback(didTimeout);
   });
 }