diff --git a/packages/block-editor/src/components/rich-text/index.native.js b/packages/block-editor/src/components/rich-text/index.native.js
index 2f5ac490d3407..021511b941e42 100644
--- a/packages/block-editor/src/components/rich-text/index.native.js
+++ b/packages/block-editor/src/components/rich-text/index.native.js
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ import { View, Platform } from 'react-native';
 import { Component, RawHTML } from '@wordpress/element';
 import { withInstanceId, compose } from '@wordpress/compose';
 import { BlockFormatControls } from '@wordpress/block-editor';
-import { withSelect } from '@wordpress/data';
+import { withSelect, withDispatch } from '@wordpress/data';
 import {
 	applyFormat,
 	getActiveFormat,
@@ -490,6 +490,7 @@ export class RichText extends Component {
 			this.lastContent = newContent;
 			this.props.onChange( this.lastContent );
 		}
+		this.props.onSelectionChange(realStart, realEnd);
 	}
 
 	isEmpty() {
@@ -776,6 +777,21 @@ const RichTextContainer = compose( [
 			onFocus: context.onFocus || ownProps.onFocus,
 		};
 	} ),
+	withDispatch( ( dispatch, {
+		clientId,
+		instanceId,
+		identifier = instanceId,
+	} ) => {
+		const {
+			selectionChange,
+		} = dispatch( 'core/block-editor' );
+
+		return {
+			onSelectionChange( start, end ) {
+				selectionChange( clientId, identifier, start, end );
+			},
+		};
+	} ),
 ] )( RichText );
 
 RichTextContainer.Content = ( { value, format, tagName: Tag, multiline, ...props } ) => {
diff --git a/packages/block-library/src/heading/edit.native.js b/packages/block-library/src/heading/edit.native.js
index fb41a50cc10f2..75322c2fd0505 100644
--- a/packages/block-library/src/heading/edit.native.js
+++ b/packages/block-library/src/heading/edit.native.js
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ class HeadingEdit extends Component {
 					<HeadingToolbar minLevel={ 2 } maxLevel={ 5 } selectedLevel={ level } onChange={ ( newLevel ) => setAttributes( { level: newLevel } ) } />
 				</BlockControls>
 				<RichText
+					identifier="content"
 					tagName={ tagName }
 					value={ content }
 					isSelected={ this.props.isSelected }
diff --git a/packages/block-library/src/paragraph/edit.native.js b/packages/block-library/src/paragraph/edit.native.js
index b64eb6b604cb6..f02cd3c002bc2 100644
--- a/packages/block-library/src/paragraph/edit.native.js
+++ b/packages/block-library/src/paragraph/edit.native.js
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ class ParagraphEdit extends Component {
 				onAccessibilityTap={ this.props.onFocus }
 			>
 				<RichText
+					identifier="content"
 					tagName="p"
 					value={ content }
 					isSelected={ this.props.isSelected }