diff --git a/app/src/androidTest/java/com/nextcloud/client/FileDisplayActivityIT.kt b/app/src/androidTest/java/com/nextcloud/client/FileDisplayActivityIT.kt
index ad6c28f597ed..0805ef65e365 100644
--- a/app/src/androidTest/java/com/nextcloud/client/FileDisplayActivityIT.kt
+++ b/app/src/androidTest/java/com/nextcloud/client/FileDisplayActivityIT.kt
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 /*
  * Nextcloud - Android Client
  *
+ * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Philipp Hasper <vcs@hasper.info>
  * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Tobias Kaminsky <tobias@kaminsky.me>
  * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Nextcloud GmbH
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later OR GPL-2.0-only
@@ -14,12 +15,14 @@ import androidx.test.espresso.Espresso.onView
 import androidx.test.espresso.IdlingRegistry
 import androidx.test.espresso.action.ViewActions.click
 import androidx.test.espresso.action.ViewActions.closeSoftKeyboard
+import androidx.test.espresso.assertion.ViewAssertions.doesNotExist
 import androidx.test.espresso.assertion.ViewAssertions.matches
 import androidx.test.espresso.contrib.DrawerActions
 import androidx.test.espresso.contrib.NavigationViewActions
 import androidx.test.espresso.contrib.RecyclerViewActions
 import androidx.test.espresso.matcher.ViewMatchers
 import androidx.test.espresso.matcher.ViewMatchers.hasDescendant
+import androidx.test.espresso.matcher.ViewMatchers.isDisplayed
 import androidx.test.espresso.matcher.ViewMatchers.withEffectiveVisibility
 import androidx.test.espresso.matcher.ViewMatchers.withId
 import androidx.test.espresso.matcher.ViewMatchers.withText
@@ -36,6 +39,7 @@ import com.owncloud.android.operations.CreateFolderOperation
 import com.owncloud.android.ui.activity.FileDisplayActivity
 import com.owncloud.android.ui.adapter.OCFileListItemViewHolder
 import com.owncloud.android.utils.EspressoIdlingResource
+import org.hamcrest.Matchers.allOf
 import org.junit.After
 import org.junit.Assert.assertEquals
 import org.junit.Assert.assertTrue
@@ -44,6 +48,7 @@ import org.junit.Rule
 import org.junit.Test
 
 class FileDisplayActivityIT : AbstractOnServerIT() {
+
     @Before
     fun registerIdlingResource() {
         IdlingRegistry.getInstance().register(EspressoIdlingResource.countingIdlingResource)
@@ -236,4 +241,53 @@ class FileDisplayActivityIT : AbstractOnServerIT() {
             }
         }
     }
+
+    @Test
+    fun testShowAndDismissLoadingDialog() {
+        launchActivity<FileDisplayActivity>().use { scenario ->
+            val loadingText = "Some text displayed while loading"
+
+            // Test that display works
+            scenario.onActivity { sut ->
+                sut.showLoadingDialog(loadingText)
+            }
+            onView(withText(loadingText))
+                .check(matches(isDisplayed()))
+
+            // Test that hiding works
+            scenario.onActivity { sut ->
+                sut.dismissLoadingDialog()
+            }
+            onView(allOf(withText(loadingText), isDisplayed()))
+                .check(doesNotExist())
+
+            // Test that there is no timing issue when hiding the dialog directly after.
+            // This timing issue was reproducible when testing RemoveFilesDialogFragment#removeFiles
+            // as well as sporadically "in the wild".
+            scenario.onActivity { sut ->
+                sut.showLoadingDialog(loadingText)
+                sut.dismissLoadingDialog()
+            }
+            onView(allOf(withText(loadingText), isDisplayed()))
+                .check(doesNotExist())
+            // Wait for a potential timing issue - dialog appearing belatedly
+            Thread.sleep(1000)
+            onView(allOf(withText(loadingText), isDisplayed()))
+                .check(doesNotExist())
+
+            // Test that multiple display calls after another don't cause a timing issue
+            scenario.onActivity { sut ->
+                sut.showLoadingDialog(loadingText)
+                sut.showLoadingDialog(loadingText)
+                sut.showLoadingDialog(loadingText)
+                sut.dismissLoadingDialog()
+            }
+            onView(allOf(withText(loadingText), isDisplayed()))
+                .check(doesNotExist())
+            // Wait for a potential timing issue - dialog appearing belatedly
+            Thread.sleep(1000)
+            onView(allOf(withText(loadingText), isDisplayed()))
+                .check(doesNotExist())
+        }
+    }
 }
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/owncloud/android/ui/activity/FileActivity.java b/app/src/main/java/com/owncloud/android/ui/activity/FileActivity.java
index 1e1727283d18..2e87286462a2 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/com/owncloud/android/ui/activity/FileActivity.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/owncloud/android/ui/activity/FileActivity.java
@@ -563,6 +563,7 @@ protected void updateFileFromDB(){
     public void showLoadingDialog(String message) {
         runOnUiThread(() -> {
             FragmentManager fragmentManager = getSupportFragmentManager();
+            fragmentManager.executePendingTransactions();
             Fragment existingDialog = fragmentManager.findFragmentByTag(DIALOG_WAIT_TAG);
 
             if (existingDialog instanceof LoadingDialog loadingDialog) {
@@ -585,6 +586,7 @@ public void showLoadingDialog(String message) {
     public void dismissLoadingDialog() {
         runOnUiThread(() -> {
             FragmentManager fragmentManager = getSupportFragmentManager();
+            fragmentManager.executePendingTransactions();
             Fragment fragment = fragmentManager.findFragmentByTag(DIALOG_WAIT_TAG);
 
             if (fragment instanceof LoadingDialog loadingDialogFragment) {