Component blinks when fading to the next image on iOS

[rgarlik]

I have a website where I'm using react-crossfade-image to show a couple of images in a "showcase gallery" sort of way. Everything works perfectly fine on the desktop version but testing the site on my phone (iPhone 6S using Safari, could be replicated on iPhone 11 Safari as well) has shown the following problem:

Every time the component starts fading into the next image, the image component "disappears" for a split second, also causing the whole component's height to shrink to 0. It then re-appears with the new image as it's supposed to. I first thought that it's just having trouble loading the images for the first time, but this behavior appears every time a new image is faded into, even if it's between images that have already been shown (which means they're already loaded).