diff --git a/src/components/App.tsx b/src/components/App.tsx
index f32de949e..cbf922ce0 100644
--- a/src/components/App.tsx
+++ b/src/components/App.tsx
@@ -1246,9 +1246,6 @@ class App extends React.Component<AppProps, AppState> {
                           onTouchMove={this.handleTouchMove}
                           onPointerDown={this.handleCanvasPointerDown}
                           onDoubleClick={this.handleCanvasDoubleClick}
-                          onWheel={this.handleWheel}
-                          onTouchStart={this.onTouchStart}
-                          onTouchEnd={this.onTouchEnd}
                         />
                         {this.renderFrameNames()}
                       </ExcalidrawActionManagerContext.Provider>
@@ -2059,7 +2056,7 @@ class App extends React.Component<AppProps, AppState> {
     didTapTwice = false;
   }
 
-  private onTouchStart = (event: React.TouchEvent) => {
+  private onTouchStart = (event: TouchEvent) => {
     // fix for Apple Pencil Scribble
     // On Android, preventing the event would disable contextMenu on tap-hold
     if (!isAndroid) {
@@ -2099,7 +2096,7 @@ class App extends React.Component<AppProps, AppState> {
     }
   };
 
-  private onTouchEnd = (event: React.TouchEvent) => {
+  private onTouchEnd = (event: TouchEvent) => {
     this.resetContextMenuTimer();
     if (event.touches.length > 0) {
       this.setState({
@@ -7409,6 +7406,31 @@ class App extends React.Component<AppProps, AppState> {
     // canvas is null when unmounting
     if (canvas !== null) {
       this.interactiveCanvas = canvas;
+
+      // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+      // NOTE wheel, touchstart, touchend events must be registered outside
+      // of react because react binds them them passively (so we can't prevent
+      // default on them)
+      this.interactiveCanvas.addEventListener(EVENT.WHEEL, this.handleWheel);
+      this.interactiveCanvas.addEventListener(
+        EVENT.TOUCH_START,
+        this.onTouchStart,
+      );
+      this.interactiveCanvas.addEventListener(EVENT.TOUCH_END, this.onTouchEnd);
+      // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+    } else {
+      this.interactiveCanvas?.removeEventListener(
+        EVENT.WHEEL,
+        this.handleWheel,
+      );
+      this.interactiveCanvas?.removeEventListener(
+        EVENT.TOUCH_START,
+        this.onTouchStart,
+      );
+      this.interactiveCanvas?.removeEventListener(
+        EVENT.TOUCH_END,
+        this.onTouchEnd,
+      );
     }
   };
 
diff --git a/src/components/canvases/InteractiveCanvas.tsx b/src/components/canvases/InteractiveCanvas.tsx
index 0dfcbecf1..11bbec24b 100644
--- a/src/components/canvases/InteractiveCanvas.tsx
+++ b/src/components/canvases/InteractiveCanvas.tsx
@@ -56,15 +56,6 @@ type InteractiveCanvasProps = {
     DOMAttributes<HTMLCanvasElement>["onDoubleClick"],
     undefined
   >;
-  onWheel: Exclude<DOMAttributes<HTMLCanvasElement>["onWheel"], undefined>;
-  onTouchStart: Exclude<
-    DOMAttributes<HTMLCanvasElement>["onTouchStart"],
-    undefined
-  >;
-  onTouchEnd: Exclude<
-    DOMAttributes<HTMLCanvasElement>["onTouchEnd"],
-    undefined
-  >;
 };
 
 const InteractiveCanvas = (props: InteractiveCanvasProps) => {
@@ -163,9 +154,6 @@ const InteractiveCanvas = (props: InteractiveCanvasProps) => {
       onDoubleClick={
         props.appState.viewModeEnabled ? undefined : props.onDoubleClick
       }
-      onWheel={props.onWheel}
-      onTouchStart={props.onTouchStart}
-      onTouchEnd={props.onTouchEnd}
     >
       {t("labels.drawingCanvas")}
     </canvas>