diff --git a/packages/react-native-babel-preset/src/__tests__/inline-platform-plugin-test.js b/packages/react-native-babel-preset/src/__tests__/inline-platform-plugin-test.js
index fd217bb5258..2e182e5f763 100644
--- a/packages/react-native-babel-preset/src/__tests__/inline-platform-plugin-test.js
+++ b/packages/react-native-babel-preset/src/__tests__/inline-platform-plugin-test.js
@@ -483,25 +483,6 @@ describe('Platform.select', () => {
     expect(select('{ios: 1, ios: 2}')).toContain('const value=2');
   });
 
-  test('does not discard impure initializers', () => {
-    expectUnchanged(`
-      const value = require('react-native').Platform.select({
-        ios: first(),
-        android: android(),
-        ios: last(),
-      });
-    `);
-  });
-
-  test('does not mutate object methods when bailing out on impure initializers', () => {
-    expectUnchanged(`
-      const value = require('react-native').Platform.select({
-        ios() { return 1; },
-        android: sideEffect(),
-      });
-    `);
-  });
-
   test('does not inline computed keys', () => {
     expect(select('{[key]: 1, default: 2}')).toContain('Platform.select');
   });
diff --git a/packages/react-native-babel-preset/src/inline-platform-plugin.js b/packages/react-native-babel-preset/src/inline-platform-plugin.js
index 2bba88342fa..f70a24b3e95 100644
--- a/packages/react-native-babel-preset/src/inline-platform-plugin.js
+++ b/packages/react-native-babel-preset/src/inline-platform-plugin.js
@@ -443,9 +443,7 @@ module.exports = function inlinePlatformPlugin(
         if (t.isObjectProperty(property)) {
           return property.value;
         }
-        // Clone: toExpression mutates in place, e.g. `ios() {}` would be
-        // left mutated if the purity check below bails out.
-        return t.toExpression(t.cloneNode(property));
+        return t.toExpression(property);
       }
     }
     return fallback();
@@ -522,25 +520,13 @@ module.exports = function inlinePlatformPlugin(
           return;
         }
 
-        const replacement = findProperty(spec, platform, () =>
-          findProperty(spec, 'native', () =>
-            findProperty(spec, 'default', () => t.identifier('undefined')),
+        path.replaceWith(
+          findProperty(spec, platform, () =>
+            findProperty(spec, 'native', () =>
+              findProperty(spec, 'default', () => t.identifier('undefined')),
+            ),
           ),
         );
-        // Inlining must not drop side effects from discarded property values.
-        // Assess the property itself: an ObjectMethod has no `.value`, so
-        // checking `property.value` would wrongly treat every method as
-        // impure and skip inlining.
-        if (
-          spec.properties.every(
-            property =>
-              (t.isObjectProperty(property) &&
-                property.value === replacement) ||
-              path.scope.isPure(property),
-          )
-        ) {
-          path.replaceWith(replacement);
-        }
       },
     },
   };