diff --git a/.changeset/sour-lions-juggle.md b/.changeset/sour-lions-juggle.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..88cc197d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/sour-lions-juggle.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'slate-react': patch
+---
+
+Fixed issue on android where deleting forward at the end of a block would delete the first character in the next block instead of the linebreak
diff --git a/packages/slate-react/src/hooks/android-input-manager/android-input-manager.ts b/packages/slate-react/src/hooks/android-input-manager/android-input-manager.ts
index 90a324489..5a9cbf324 100644
--- a/packages/slate-react/src/hooks/android-input-manager/android-input-manager.ts
+++ b/packages/slate-react/src/hooks/android-input-manager/android-input-manager.ts
@@ -396,25 +396,32 @@ export function createAndroidInputManager({
     let canStoreDiff = true
 
     if (type.startsWith('delete')) {
-      if (Range.isExpanded(targetRange)) {
-        const [start, end] = Range.edges(targetRange)
-        const leaf = Node.leaf(editor, start.path)
+      const direction = type.endsWith('Backward') ? 'backward' : 'forward'
+      let [start, end] = Range.edges(targetRange)
+      let [leaf, path] = Editor.leaf(editor, start.path)
 
+      if (Range.isExpanded(targetRange)) {
         if (leaf.text.length === start.offset && end.offset === 0) {
           const next = Editor.next(editor, {
             at: start.path,
             match: Text.isText,
           })
           if (next && Path.equals(next[1], end.path)) {
-            targetRange = { anchor: end, focus: end }
+            // when deleting a linebreak, targetRange will span across the break (ie start in the node before and end in the node after)
+            // if the node before is empty, this will look like a hanging range and get unhung later--which will take the break we want to remove out of the range
+            // so to avoid this we collapse the target range to default to single character deletion
+            if (direction === 'backward') {
+              targetRange = { anchor: end, focus: end }
+              start = end
+              ;[leaf, path] = next
+            } else {
+              targetRange = { anchor: start, focus: start }
+              end = start
+            }
           }
         }
       }
 
-      const direction = type.endsWith('Backward') ? 'backward' : 'forward'
-      const [start, end] = Range.edges(targetRange)
-      const [leaf, path] = Editor.leaf(editor, start.path)
-
       const diff = {
         text: '',
         start: start.offset,