diff --git a/packages/vue-router/src/viewStacks.ts b/packages/vue-router/src/viewStacks.ts
index 1ef105125d..7fd5c331da 100644
--- a/packages/vue-router/src/viewStacks.ts
+++ b/packages/vue-router/src/viewStacks.ts
@@ -20,6 +20,14 @@ export const createViewStacks = (router: Router) => {
   const registerIonPage = (viewItem: ViewItem, ionPage: HTMLElement) => {
     viewItem.ionPageElement = ionPage;
     viewItem.ionRoute = true;
+
+    /**
+     * This is needed otherwise Vue Router
+     * will not consider this component mounted
+     * and will not run route guards that
+     * are written in the component.
+     */
+    viewItem.matchedRoute.instances = { default: viewItem.vueComponentRef.value };
   }
 
   const findViewItemByRouteInfo = (routeInfo: RouteInfo, outletId?: number, useDeprecatedRouteSetup: boolean = false) => {
@@ -202,6 +210,7 @@ export const createViewStacks = (router: Router) => {
       viewItem.mount = false;
       viewItem.ionPageElement = undefined;
       viewItem.ionRoute = false;
+      viewItem.matchedRoute.instances = {};
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/packages/vue/src/components/IonRouterOutlet.ts b/packages/vue/src/components/IonRouterOutlet.ts
index 4eea4a8915..ffbad4d255 100644
--- a/packages/vue/src/components/IonRouterOutlet.ts
+++ b/packages/vue/src/components/IonRouterOutlet.ts
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ export const IonRouterOutlet = defineComponent({
      * page/1 to page/2 would not cause this callback
      * to fire since the matchedRouteRef was the same.
      */
-    watch([route, matchedRouteRef], ([currentRoute, currentMatchedRouteRef], [_, previousMatchedRouteRef]) => {
+    watch(() => [route, matchedRouteRef.value], ([currentRoute, currentMatchedRouteRef], [_, previousMatchedRouteRef]) => {
       /**
        * If the matched route ref has changed,
        * then we need to set up a new view item.
diff --git a/packages/vue/test-app/tests/unit/routing.spec.ts b/packages/vue/test-app/tests/unit/routing.spec.ts
index 0a14f980aa..ae510fc22e 100644
--- a/packages/vue/test-app/tests/unit/routing.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/vue/test-app/tests/unit/routing.spec.ts
@@ -393,4 +393,52 @@ describe('Routing', () => {
 
     expect(page.props()).toEqual({ id: '2' });
   });
+
+  it('should fire guard written in a component', async () => {
+    const beforeRouteEnterSpy = jest.fn();
+    const beforeRouteLeaveSpy = jest.fn();
+    const Page = {
+      beforeRouteEnter() {
+        beforeRouteEnterSpy();
+      },
+      beforeRouteLeave() {
+        beforeRouteLeaveSpy();
+      },
+      components: { IonPage },
+      template: `<ion-page></ion-page>`
+    }
+    const Page2 = {
+      components: { IonPage },
+      template: `<ion-page></ion-page>`
+    }
+
+    const router = createRouter({
+      history: createWebHistory(process.env.BASE_URL),
+      routes: [
+        { path: '/page', component: Page },
+        { path: '/page2', component: Page2 },
+        { path: '/', redirect: '/page' }
+      ]
+    });
+
+    router.push('/');
+    await router.isReady();
+    const wrapper = mount(App, {
+      global: {
+        plugins: [router, IonicVue]
+      }
+    });
+
+    expect(beforeRouteEnterSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+
+    router.push('/page2');
+    await waitForRouter();
+
+    expect(beforeRouteLeaveSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+
+    router.back();
+    await waitForRouter();
+
+    expect(beforeRouteEnterSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
+  });
 });