diff --git a/example/ios/Podfile.lock b/example/ios/Podfile.lock
index 294957f..0575263 100644
--- a/example/ios/Podfile.lock
+++ b/example/ios/Podfile.lock
@@ -886,7 +886,7 @@ PODS:
   - React-Mapbuffer (0.73.5):
     - glog
     - React-debug
-  - react-native-uitextview (1.1.5):
+  - react-native-uitextview (1.2.1):
     - glog
     - RCT-Folly (= 2022.05.16.00)
     - React-Core
@@ -1251,7 +1251,7 @@ SPEC CHECKSUMS:
   React-jsinspector: 32db5e364bcae8fca8cdf8891830636275add0c5
   React-logger: 0331362115f0f5b392bd7ed14636d1a3ea612479
   React-Mapbuffer: 7c35cd53a22d0be04d3f26f7881c7fb7dd230216
-  react-native-uitextview: 074935787667522fdde4625c7e57eb341270f892
+  react-native-uitextview: a743682a89aac66e3ec6c94e5ac9c190c1fbdf01
   React-nativeconfig: 1166714a4f7ea57a0df5c2cb44fbc70f98d580f9
   React-NativeModulesApple: 726664e9829eb5eed8170241000e46ead269a05f
   React-perflogger: 0dd9f1725d55f8264b81efadd373fe1d9cca7dc2
diff --git a/example/src/App.tsx b/example/src/App.tsx
index cef2259..e7863ea 100644
--- a/example/src/App.tsx
+++ b/example/src/App.tsx
@@ -130,6 +130,37 @@ export default function App() {
             </Text>
           </View>
 
+          <View>
+            <RNText style={styles.subheader}>Base, backgroundColor</RNText>
+            <RNText style={[styles.text, styles.backgroundColor]}>
+              Hello world!
+            </RNText>
+            <RNText style={[styles.text]}>
+              Hello world!{' '}
+              <RNText style={[styles.text, styles.backgroundColor]}>
+                And more!
+              </RNText>
+            </RNText>
+          </View>
+          <View>
+            <Text style={styles.subheader}>UITextView, backgroundColor</Text>
+            <Text
+              selectable
+              uiTextView
+              style={[styles.text, styles.backgroundColor]}>
+              Hello world!
+            </Text>
+            <Text selectable uiTextView style={[styles.text]}>
+              Hello world!{' '}
+              <Text
+                selectable
+                uiTextView
+                style={[styles.text, styles.backgroundColor]}>
+                And more!
+              </Text>
+            </Text>
+          </View>
+
           <View>
             <RNText style={styles.subheader}>Base, textDecorationLine</RNText>
             <RNText style={[styles.text, styles.underlined]}>
@@ -633,5 +664,8 @@ const styles = StyleSheet.create({
   },
   lineHeight30: {
     lineHeight: 30
+  },
+  backgroundColor: {
+    backgroundColor: 'yellow'
   }
 })
diff --git a/ios/RNUITextViewChildShadow.swift b/ios/RNUITextViewChildShadow.swift
index 29e9d22..9f1db90 100644
--- a/ios/RNUITextViewChildShadow.swift
+++ b/ios/RNUITextViewChildShadow.swift
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ class RNUITextViewChildShadow: RCTShadowView {
   @objc var textDecorationLine: RCTTextDecorationLineType = .none
   @objc var textDecorationStyle: String = "solid"
   @objc var textDecorationColor: UIColor = .black
+  @objc var backgroundColor: UIColor?
 
   override func isYogaLeafNode() -> Bool {
     return true
diff --git a/ios/RNUITextViewManager.m b/ios/RNUITextViewManager.m
index 7129042..a7c1ff1 100644
--- a/ios/RNUITextViewManager.m
+++ b/ios/RNUITextViewManager.m
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ @interface RCT_EXTERN_MODULE(RNUITextViewChildManager, RCTViewManager)
 RCT_REMAP_SHADOW_PROPERTY(textDecorationLine, textDecorationLine, RCTTextDecorationLineType)
 RCT_REMAP_SHADOW_PROPERTY(textDecorationStyle, textDecorationStyle, NSString)
 RCT_REMAP_SHADOW_PROPERTY(textDecorationColor, textDecorationColor, UIColor)
+RCT_REMAP_SHADOW_PROPERTY(backgroundColor, backgroundColor, UIColor)
 
 RCT_EXPORT_VIEW_PROPERTY(text, NSString)
 RCT_EXPORT_VIEW_PROPERTY(onPress, RCTBubblingEventBlock)
diff --git a/ios/RNUITextViewShadow.swift b/ios/RNUITextViewShadow.swift
index b8e7843..c34ba71 100644
--- a/ios/RNUITextViewShadow.swift
+++ b/ios/RNUITextViewShadow.swift
@@ -111,6 +111,10 @@ class RNUITextViewShadow: RCTShadowView {
         attributes[.strikethroughStyle] = child.getTextDecorationStyle()
         attributes[.strikethroughColor] = child.getTextDecorationColor()
       }
+      
+      if child.backgroundColor != nil {
+        attributes[.backgroundColor] = child.backgroundColor
+      }
 
       // Create the attributed string with the generic attributes
       let string = NSMutableAttributedString(string: child.text, attributes: attributes)