diff --git a/dev-packages/browser-integration-tests/suites/tracing/browserTracingIntegration/long-tasks-and-animation-frame-enabled-static/test.ts b/dev-packages/browser-integration-tests/suites/tracing/browserTracingIntegration/long-tasks-and-animation-frame-enabled-static/test.ts
index 5881bf8b3ba0..72fce94d9815 100644
--- a/dev-packages/browser-integration-tests/suites/tracing/browserTracingIntegration/long-tasks-and-animation-frame-enabled-static/test.ts
+++ b/dev-packages/browser-integration-tests/suites/tracing/browserTracingIntegration/long-tasks-and-animation-frame-enabled-static/test.ts
@@ -10,7 +10,12 @@ import {
 import type { Route } from '@playwright/test';
 import { expect } from '@playwright/test';
 import { sentryTest } from '../../../../utils/fixtures';
-import { envelopeRequestParser, shouldSkipTracingTest, waitForTransactionRequest } from '../../../../utils/helpers';
+import {
+  envelopeRequestParser,
+  shouldSkipTracingTest,
+  waitForNextFrame,
+  waitForTransactionRequest,
+} from '../../../../utils/helpers';
 
 sentryTest(
   'should capture long animation frame for top-level script.',
@@ -83,8 +88,11 @@ sentryTest(
 
     await page.goto(url);
 
-    // trigger long animation frame function
-    await page.getByRole('button').click();
+    // Separate mousedown and click into different frames so LoAF reports the click handler.
+    await page.getByRole('button').hover();
+    await page.mouse.down();
+    await waitForNextFrame(page);
+    await page.mouse.up();
 
     const eventData = envelopeRequestParser(await promise);
 
diff --git a/dev-packages/browser-integration-tests/suites/tracing/browserTracingIntegration/long-tasks-and-animation-frame-enabled/test.ts b/dev-packages/browser-integration-tests/suites/tracing/browserTracingIntegration/long-tasks-and-animation-frame-enabled/test.ts
index 6a2638a61c45..93abdb679273 100644
--- a/dev-packages/browser-integration-tests/suites/tracing/browserTracingIntegration/long-tasks-and-animation-frame-enabled/test.ts
+++ b/dev-packages/browser-integration-tests/suites/tracing/browserTracingIntegration/long-tasks-and-animation-frame-enabled/test.ts
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import {
 import type { Route } from '@playwright/test';
 import { expect } from '@playwright/test';
 import { sentryTest } from '../../../../utils/fixtures';
-import { shouldSkipTracingTest } from '../../../../utils/helpers';
+import { shouldSkipTracingTest, waitForNextFrame } from '../../../../utils/helpers';
 import { collectStreamedSpans, getSpanOp, waitForStreamedSpan } from '../../../../utils/spanUtils';
 
 sentryTest(
@@ -83,8 +83,11 @@ sentryTest('captures long animation frame span for event listener.', async ({ br
 
   await page.goto(url);
 
-  // trigger long animation frame function
-  await page.getByRole('button').click();
+  // Separate mousedown and click into different frames so LoAF reports the click handler.
+  await page.getByRole('button').hover();
+  await page.mouse.down();
+  await waitForNextFrame(page);
+  await page.mouse.up();
 
   const pageloadSpan = await pageloadSpanPromise;
   await page.evaluate(() => (window as any).Sentry.flush());
diff --git a/dev-packages/browser-integration-tests/utils/helpers.ts b/dev-packages/browser-integration-tests/utils/helpers.ts
index 90b3deae3cb9..60df3fd96eb2 100644
--- a/dev-packages/browser-integration-tests/utils/helpers.ts
+++ b/dev-packages/browser-integration-tests/utils/helpers.ts
@@ -564,6 +564,15 @@ export async function waitForLcpCandidate(page: Page, selector: string): Promise
   });
 }
 
+/**
+ * Resolves after the current frame has been presented (double rAF).
+ */
+export async function waitForNextFrame(page: Page): Promise<void> {
+  await page.evaluate(
+    () => new Promise<void>(resolve => requestAnimationFrame(() => requestAnimationFrame(() => resolve()))),
+  );
+}
+
 export async function hidePage(page: Page, interactionSelector?: string): Promise<void> {
   // web-vitals processes an interaction's event entries in `requestIdleCallback(..., { timeout:
   // 1000 })`, and Chromium only reaches idle here once that timeout elapses. Hiding before that