diff --git a/src/libs/actions/OnyxUpdateManager.ts b/src/libs/actions/OnyxUpdateManager.ts
index 40f522e215b5..f1f26e259ab1 100644
--- a/src/libs/actions/OnyxUpdateManager.ts
+++ b/src/libs/actions/OnyxUpdateManager.ts
@@ -41,11 +41,18 @@ export default () => {
     Onyx.connect({
         key: ONYXKEYS.ONYX_UPDATES_FROM_SERVER,
         callback: (value) => {
-            // When the OpenApp command hasn't finished yet, we should not process any updates.
-            if (!value || isLoadingApp) {
-                if (isLoadingApp) {
-                    console.debug(`[OnyxUpdateManager] Ignoring Onyx updates while OpenApp hans't finished yet.`);
-                }
+            // When there's no value, there's nothing to process, so let's return early.
+            if (!value) {
+                return;
+            }
+            // If isLoadingApp is positive it means that OpenApp command hasn't finished yet, and in that case
+            // we don't have base state of the app (reports, policies, etc) setup. If we apply this update,
+            // we'll only have them overriten by the openApp response. So let's skip it and return.
+            if (isLoadingApp) {
+                // When ONYX_UPDATES_FROM_SERVER is set, we pause the queue. Let's unpause
+                // it so the app is not stuck forever without processing requests.
+                SequentialQueue.unpause();
+                console.debug(`[OnyxUpdateManager] Ignoring Onyx updates while OpenApp hans't finished yet.`);
                 return;
             }
             // This key is shared across clients, thus every client/tab will have a copy and try to execute this method.
@@ -80,11 +87,6 @@ export default () => {
             // fully migrating to the reliable updates mode.
             // 2. This client already has the reliable updates mode enabled, but it's missing some updates and it
             // needs to fetch those.
-            //
-            // For both of those, we need to pause the sequential queue. This is important so that the updates are
-            // applied in their correct and specific order. If this queue was not paused, then there would be a lot of
-            // onyx data being applied while we are fetching the missing updates and that would put them all out of order.
-            SequentialQueue.pause();
             let canUnpauseQueuePromise;
 
             // The flow below is setting the promise to a reconnect app to address flow (1) explained above.
diff --git a/src/libs/actions/OnyxUpdates.ts b/src/libs/actions/OnyxUpdates.ts
index e093ce9a964b..bb486d97b33b 100644
--- a/src/libs/actions/OnyxUpdates.ts
+++ b/src/libs/actions/OnyxUpdates.ts
@@ -119,6 +119,11 @@ function apply({lastUpdateID, type, request, response, updates}: OnyxUpdatesFrom
  * @param [updateParams.updates] Exists if updateParams.type === 'pusher'
  */
 function saveUpdateInformation(updateParams: OnyxUpdatesFromServer) {
+    // If we got here, that means we are missing some updates on our local storage. To
+    // guarantee that we're not fetching more updates before our local data is up to date,
+    // let's stop the sequential queue from running until we're done catching up.
+    SequentialQueue.pause();
+
     // Always use set() here so that the updateParams are never merged and always unique to the request that came in
     Onyx.set(ONYXKEYS.ONYX_UPDATES_FROM_SERVER, updateParams);
 }
@@ -148,9 +153,6 @@ function applyOnyxUpdatesReliably(updates: OnyxUpdatesFromServer) {
         apply(updates);
         return;
     }
-
-    // If we reached this point, we need to pause the queue while we prepare to fetch older OnyxUpdates.
-    SequentialQueue.pause();
     saveUpdateInformation(updates);
 }