diff --git a/packages/components/CHANGELOG.md b/packages/components/CHANGELOG.md
index 31ad5b0457d7ef..bf32aadd73ff5a 100644
--- a/packages/components/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/packages/components/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 ### Bug Fix
 
 -   `FontSizePicker`: Ensure that fluid font size presets appear correctly in the UI controls ([#44791](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/44791))
+-   `Navigator`: restore focus only once per location  ([#44972](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/44972)).
 -   The `LinkedButton` to unlink sides in `BoxControl`, `BorderBoxControl` and `BorderRadiusControl` have changed from a rectangular primary button to an icon-only button, with a sentence case tooltip, and default-size icon for better legibility. The `Button` component has been fixed so when `isSmall` and `icon` props are set, and no text is present, the button shape is square rather than rectangular.
 -   `Popover`: fix limitShift logic by adding iframe offset correctly [#42950](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/42950)).
 
diff --git a/packages/components/src/navigator/navigator-provider/component.tsx b/packages/components/src/navigator/navigator-provider/component.tsx
index 634c6f8204b10e..fc769f2f5736ca 100644
--- a/packages/components/src/navigator/navigator-provider/component.tsx
+++ b/packages/components/src/navigator/navigator-provider/component.tsx
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ function NavigatorProvider(
 					...options,
 					path,
 					isBack: false,
+					hasRestoredFocus: false,
 				},
 			] );
 		},
@@ -62,6 +63,7 @@ function NavigatorProvider(
 				{
 					...locationHistory[ locationHistory.length - 2 ],
 					isBack: true,
+					hasRestoredFocus: false,
 				},
 			] );
 		}
diff --git a/packages/components/src/navigator/navigator-screen/component.tsx b/packages/components/src/navigator/navigator-screen/component.tsx
index 94b7bfee306e97..092b95b50d97f6 100644
--- a/packages/components/src/navigator/navigator-screen/component.tsx
+++ b/packages/components/src/navigator/navigator-screen/component.tsx
@@ -79,7 +79,13 @@ function NavigatorScreen( props: Props, forwardedRef: ForwardedRef< any > ) {
 		// - if the current location is not the initial one (to avoid moving focus on page load)
 		// - when the screen becomes visible
 		// - if the wrapper ref has been assigned
-		if ( isInitialLocation || ! isMatch || ! wrapperRef.current ) {
+		// - if focus hasn't already been restored for the current location
+		if (
+			isInitialLocation ||
+			! isMatch ||
+			! wrapperRef.current ||
+			location.hasRestoredFocus
+		) {
 			return;
 		}
 
@@ -103,10 +109,12 @@ function NavigatorScreen( props: Props, forwardedRef: ForwardedRef< any > ) {
 			elementToFocus = firstTabbable ?? wrapperRef.current;
 		}
 
+		location.hasRestoredFocus = true;
 		elementToFocus.focus();
 	}, [
 		isInitialLocation,
 		isMatch,
+		location.hasRestoredFocus,
 		location.isBack,
 		previousLocation?.focusTargetSelector,
 	] );
diff --git a/packages/components/src/navigator/types.ts b/packages/components/src/navigator/types.ts
index edc80c356e18e5..217b9408923374 100644
--- a/packages/components/src/navigator/types.ts
+++ b/packages/components/src/navigator/types.ts
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ export type NavigatorLocation = NavigateOptions & {
 	isInitial?: boolean;
 	isBack?: boolean;
 	path?: string;
+	hasRestoredFocus?: boolean;
 };
 
 export type NavigatorContext = {