diff --git a/packages/core/ui/text-view/index.android.ts b/packages/core/ui/text-view/index.android.ts
index a6833fdcd..77a5d9352 100644
--- a/packages/core/ui/text-view/index.android.ts
+++ b/packages/core/ui/text-view/index.android.ts
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ export class TextView extends TextViewBaseCommon {
 
 		this.nativeTextViewProtected.setMaxLines(value);
 	}
+
+	public _onReturnPress() {
+		this.notify({ eventName: TextView.returnPressEvent, object: this });
+	}
 }
 
 TextView.prototype.recycleNativeView = 'auto';
diff --git a/packages/core/ui/text-view/index.ios.ts b/packages/core/ui/text-view/index.ios.ts
index 8385e1baf..f587f69cc 100644
--- a/packages/core/ui/text-view/index.ios.ts
+++ b/packages/core/ui/text-view/index.ios.ts
@@ -167,6 +167,10 @@ export class TextView extends TextViewBaseCommon {
 			}
 		}
 
+		if (replacementString === '\n') {
+			this.notify({ eventName: TextView.returnPressEvent, object: this });
+		}
+
 		if (this.formattedText) {
 			_updateCharactersInRangeReplacementString(this.formattedText, range.location, range.length, replacementString);
 		}
diff --git a/packages/core/ui/text-view/text-view-common.ts b/packages/core/ui/text-view/text-view-common.ts
index 380706741..6966db466 100644
--- a/packages/core/ui/text-view/text-view-common.ts
+++ b/packages/core/ui/text-view/text-view-common.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { EditableTextBase } from '../editable-text-base';
 import { Property } from '../core/properties';
 
 export class TextViewBase extends EditableTextBase implements TextViewDefinition {
+	public static returnPressEvent = 'returnPress';
 	public maxLines: number;
 }