diff --git a/packages/react-reconciler/src/ReactFiberCommitWork.new.js b/packages/react-reconciler/src/ReactFiberCommitWork.new.js
index 6545ad876f879..de5a05d85e17b 100644
--- a/packages/react-reconciler/src/ReactFiberCommitWork.new.js
+++ b/packages/react-reconciler/src/ReactFiberCommitWork.new.js
@@ -127,8 +127,6 @@ import {
   captureCommitPhaseError,
   resolveRetryWakeable,
   markCommitTimeOfFallback,
-  enqueuePendingPassiveHookEffectMount,
-  enqueuePendingPassiveHookEffectUnmount,
   enqueuePendingPassiveProfilerEffect,
 } from './ReactFiberWorkLoop.new';
 import {
@@ -414,26 +412,6 @@ function commitHookEffectListMount(tag: number, finishedWork: Fiber) {
   }
 }
 
-function schedulePassiveEffects(finishedWork: Fiber) {
-  const updateQueue: FunctionComponentUpdateQueue | null = (finishedWork.updateQueue: any);
-  const lastEffect = updateQueue !== null ? updateQueue.lastEffect : null;
-  if (lastEffect !== null) {
-    const firstEffect = lastEffect.next;
-    let effect = firstEffect;
-    do {
-      const {next, tag} = effect;
-      if (
-        (tag & HookPassive) !== NoHookEffect &&
-        (tag & HookHasEffect) !== NoHookEffect
-      ) {
-        enqueuePendingPassiveHookEffectUnmount(finishedWork, effect);
-        enqueuePendingPassiveHookEffectMount(finishedWork, effect);
-      }
-      effect = next;
-    } while (effect !== firstEffect);
-  }
-}
-
 export function commitPassiveEffectDurations(
   finishedRoot: FiberRoot,
   finishedWork: Fiber,
@@ -519,8 +497,6 @@ function commitLifeCycles(
       } else {
         commitHookEffectListMount(HookLayout | HookHasEffect, finishedWork);
       }
-
-      schedulePassiveEffects(finishedWork);
       return;
     }
     case ClassComponent: {
@@ -957,9 +933,7 @@ function commitUnmount(
           do {
             const {destroy, tag} = effect;
             if (destroy !== undefined) {
-              if ((tag & HookPassive) !== NoHookEffect) {
-                enqueuePendingPassiveHookEffectUnmount(current, effect);
-              } else {
+              if ((tag & HookLayout) !== NoHookEffect) {
                 if (
                   enableProfilerTimer &&
                   enableProfilerCommitHooks &&
diff --git a/packages/react-reconciler/src/ReactFiberHooks.new.js b/packages/react-reconciler/src/ReactFiberHooks.new.js
index 66c85b274df0e..3c883ff382c3c 100644
--- a/packages/react-reconciler/src/ReactFiberHooks.new.js
+++ b/packages/react-reconciler/src/ReactFiberHooks.new.js
@@ -1305,7 +1305,7 @@ function mountEffect(
     }
   }
   return mountEffectImpl(
-    UpdateEffect | PassiveEffect | PassiveStaticEffect,
+    PassiveEffect | PassiveStaticEffect,
     HookPassive,
     create,
     deps,
@@ -1322,12 +1322,7 @@ function updateEffect(
       warnIfNotCurrentlyActingEffectsInDEV(currentlyRenderingFiber);
     }
   }
-  return updateEffectImpl(
-    UpdateEffect | PassiveEffect,
-    HookPassive,
-    create,
-    deps,
-  );
+  return updateEffectImpl(PassiveEffect, HookPassive, create, deps);
 }
 
 function mountLayoutEffect(
@@ -1679,7 +1674,7 @@ function mountOpaqueIdentifier(): OpaqueIDType | void {
     const setId = mountState(id)[1];
 
     if ((currentlyRenderingFiber.mode & BlockingMode) === NoMode) {
-      currentlyRenderingFiber.flags |= UpdateEffect | PassiveEffect;
+      currentlyRenderingFiber.flags |= PassiveEffect;
       pushEffect(
         HookHasEffect | HookPassive,
         () => {
diff --git a/packages/react-reconciler/src/ReactFiberWorkLoop.new.js b/packages/react-reconciler/src/ReactFiberWorkLoop.new.js
index abae51b0b3bb0..99bdf41092d10 100644
--- a/packages/react-reconciler/src/ReactFiberWorkLoop.new.js
+++ b/packages/react-reconciler/src/ReactFiberWorkLoop.new.js
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ import type {Lanes, Lane} from './ReactFiberLane.new';
 import type {ReactPriorityLevel} from './ReactInternalTypes';
 import type {Interaction} from 'scheduler/src/Tracing';
 import type {SuspenseState} from './ReactFiberSuspenseComponent.new';
-import type {Effect as HookEffect} from './ReactFiberHooks.new';
 import type {StackCursor} from './ReactFiberStack.new';
 import type {FunctionComponentUpdateQueue} from './ReactFiberHooks.new';
 
@@ -121,8 +120,16 @@ import {
 import {LegacyRoot} from './ReactRootTags';
 import {
   NoFlags,
-  PerformedWork,
   Placement,
+  PassiveStatic,
+  Incomplete,
+  HostEffectMask,
+  Hydrating,
+  BeforeMutationMask,
+  MutationMask,
+  LayoutMask,
+  PassiveMask,
+  PerformedWork,
   Update,
   PlacementAndUpdate,
   Deletion,
@@ -131,11 +138,6 @@ import {
   ContentReset,
   Snapshot,
   Callback,
-  Passive,
-  PassiveStatic,
-  Incomplete,
-  HostEffectMask,
-  Hydrating,
   HydratingAndUpdate,
   StaticMask,
 } from './ReactFiberFlags';
@@ -1956,7 +1958,35 @@ function commitRootImpl(root, renderPriorityLevel) {
     firstEffect = finishedWork.firstEffect;
   }
 
-  if (firstEffect !== null) {
+  // If there are pending passive effects, schedule a callback to process them.
+  // Do this as early as possible, so it is queued before anything else that
+  // might get scheduled in the commit phase. (See #16714.)
+  if (
+    (finishedWork.subtreeFlags & PassiveMask) !== NoFlags ||
+    (finishedWork.flags & PassiveMask) !== NoFlags
+  ) {
+    rootDoesHavePassiveEffects = true;
+    scheduleCallback(NormalSchedulerPriority, () => {
+      flushPassiveEffects();
+      return null;
+    });
+  }
+
+  // Check if there are any effects in the whole tree.
+  // TODO: This is left over from the effect list implementation, where we had
+  // to check for the existence of `firstEffect` to satsify Flow. I think the
+  // only other reason this optimization exists is because it affects profiling.
+  // Reconsider whether this is necessary.
+  const subtreeHasEffects =
+    (finishedWork.subtreeFlags &
+      (BeforeMutationMask | MutationMask | LayoutMask | PassiveMask)) !==
+    NoFlags;
+  const rootHasEffect =
+    (finishedWork.flags &
+      (BeforeMutationMask | MutationMask | LayoutMask | PassiveMask)) !==
+    NoFlags;
+
+  if (subtreeHasEffects || rootHasEffect) {
     let previousLanePriority;
     if (decoupleUpdatePriorityFromScheduler) {
       previousLanePriority = getCurrentUpdateLanePriority();
@@ -2275,17 +2305,6 @@ function commitBeforeMutationEffects() {
 
       resetCurrentDebugFiberInDEV();
     }
-    if ((flags & Passive) !== NoFlags) {
-      // If there are passive effects, schedule a callback to flush at
-      // the earliest opportunity.
-      if (!rootDoesHavePassiveEffects) {
-        rootDoesHavePassiveEffects = true;
-        scheduleCallback(NormalSchedulerPriority, () => {
-          flushPassiveEffects();
-          return null;
-        });
-      }
-    }
     nextEffect = nextEffect.nextEffect;
   }
 }
@@ -2485,32 +2504,6 @@ export function enqueuePendingPassiveProfilerEffect(fiber: Fiber): void {
   }
 }
 
-export function enqueuePendingPassiveHookEffectMount(
-  fiber: Fiber,
-  effect: HookEffect,
-): void {
-  if (!rootDoesHavePassiveEffects) {
-    rootDoesHavePassiveEffects = true;
-    scheduleCallback(NormalSchedulerPriority, () => {
-      flushPassiveEffects();
-      return null;
-    });
-  }
-}
-
-export function enqueuePendingPassiveHookEffectUnmount(
-  fiber: Fiber,
-  effect: HookEffect,
-): void {
-  if (!rootDoesHavePassiveEffects) {
-    rootDoesHavePassiveEffects = true;
-    scheduleCallback(NormalSchedulerPriority, () => {
-      flushPassiveEffects();
-      return null;
-    });
-  }
-}
-
 function flushPassiveEffectsImpl() {
   if (rootWithPendingPassiveEffects === null) {
     return false;