diff --git a/Xamarin.Forms.Platform.iOS/CollectionView/ObservableItemsSource.cs b/Xamarin.Forms.Platform.iOS/CollectionView/ObservableItemsSource.cs
index d493321c51c..b96ee644155 100644
--- a/Xamarin.Forms.Platform.iOS/CollectionView/ObservableItemsSource.cs
+++ b/Xamarin.Forms.Platform.iOS/CollectionView/ObservableItemsSource.cs
@@ -25,10 +25,12 @@ public ObservableItemsSource(IEnumerable itemSource, UICollectionViewController
 
 			_itemsSource = itemSource as IList ?? itemSource as IEnumerable;
 
+			Count = ItemsCount();
+
 			((INotifyCollectionChanged)itemSource).CollectionChanged += CollectionChanged;
 		}
 
-		public int Count => ItemsCount();
+		public int Count { get; private set; }
 
 		public object this[int index] => ElementAt(index);
 
@@ -52,7 +54,7 @@ protected virtual void Dispose(bool disposing)
 
 		public int ItemCountInGroup(nint group)
 		{
-			return ItemsCount();
+			return Count;
 		}
 
 		public object Group(NSIndexPath indexPath)
@@ -62,7 +64,7 @@ public object Group(NSIndexPath indexPath)
 
 		public NSIndexPath GetIndexForItem(object item)
 		{
-			for (int n = 0; n < ItemsCount(); n++)
+			for (int n = 0; n < Count; n++)
 			{
 				if (this[n] == item)
 				{
@@ -75,7 +77,7 @@ public NSIndexPath GetIndexForItem(object item)
 
 		public int GroupCount => 1;
 
-		public int ItemCount => ItemsCount();
+		public int ItemCount => Count;
 
 		public object this[NSIndexPath indexPath]
 		{
@@ -118,6 +120,7 @@ void Reload()
 		{
 			_collectionView.ReloadData();
 			_collectionView.CollectionViewLayout.InvalidateLayout();
+			Count = ItemsCount();
 		}
 
 		NSIndexPath[] CreateIndexesFrom(int startIndex, int count)
@@ -141,40 +144,42 @@ bool NotLoadedYet()
 
 		void Add(NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs args)
 		{
-			var startIndex = args.NewStartingIndex > -1 ? args.NewStartingIndex : IndexOf(args.NewItems[0]);
-			var count = args.NewItems.Count;
-
 			if (NotLoadedYet())
 			{
 				_collectionView.ReloadData();
 				return;
 			}
 
+			var startIndex = args.NewStartingIndex > -1 ? args.NewStartingIndex : IndexOf(args.NewItems[0]);
+			var count = args.NewItems.Count;
+
 			if (!_grouped && _collectionView.NumberOfItemsInSection(_section) == 0)
 			{
 				// Okay, we're going from completely empty to more than 0 items; there's an iOS bug which apparently
 				// will just crash if we call InsertItems here, so we have to do ReloadData.
 				_collectionView.ReloadData();
+				Count += count;
 				return;
 			}
 
 			_collectionView.PerformBatchUpdates(() =>
-				{
-					var indexes = CreateIndexesFrom(startIndex, count);
-					_collectionView.InsertItems(indexes);
-				}, null);
+			{
+				var indexes = CreateIndexesFrom(startIndex, count);
+				_collectionView.InsertItems(indexes);
+				Count += count;
+			}, null);
 		}
 
 		void Remove(NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs args)
 		{
-			var startIndex = args.OldStartingIndex;
-
 			if (NotLoadedYet())
 			{
 				_collectionView.ReloadData();
 				return;
 			}
 
+			var startIndex = args.OldStartingIndex;
+
 			if (startIndex < 0)
 			{
 				// INCC implementation isn't giving us enough information to know where the removed items were in the
@@ -189,6 +194,7 @@ void Remove(NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs args)
 			_collectionView.PerformBatchUpdates(() =>
 			{
 				_collectionView.DeleteItems(CreateIndexesFrom(startIndex, count));
+				Count -= count;
 			}, null);
 		}