diff --git a/esphome/core/application.cpp b/esphome/core/application.cpp
index 8373c672ed..9b7091f59a 100644
--- a/esphome/core/application.cpp
+++ b/esphome/core/application.cpp
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ void Application::enable_pending_loops_() {
 // Called from the LwIP TCP/IP task via esphome_socket_event_callback() on NETCONN_EVT_RCVPLUS.
 // Only marks the OTA component as pending loop-enable; the fast-select callback itself has
 // already woken the main task via xTaskNotifyGive().
-extern "C" void IRAM_ATTR esphome_wake_ota_component_any_context() { App.wake_ota_component_any_context(); }
+extern "C" void esphome_wake_ota_component_any_context() { App.wake_ota_component_any_context(); }
 #endif
 
 #ifdef USE_LWIP_FAST_SELECT
diff --git a/esphome/core/application.h b/esphome/core/application.h
index 100ff3440d..67ef1d666f 100644
--- a/esphome/core/application.h
+++ b/esphome/core/application.h
@@ -564,13 +564,14 @@ class Application {
   /// a new connection arrives on the listening socket. OTA disables its own
   /// loop while idle to avoid per-tick dispatch overhead.
   void set_ota_wake_component(Component *component) { this->ota_wake_component_ = component; }
-  /// Mark the registered OTA component (if any) for loop re-enable from any
-  /// context. Intentionally does NOT call wake_loop_any_context() — every
-  /// caller (lwip fast-select callback, raw-tcp accept callback, host
-  /// select() return path) has already woken the main loop, so a second wake
-  /// here would be redundant. Application is a friend of Component, so we
-  /// set the pending-enable flags directly.
-  void IRAM_ATTR wake_ota_component_any_context() {
+  /// Mark the registered OTA component (if any) for loop re-enable. Intentionally
+  /// does NOT call wake_loop_any_context() — every caller (lwip fast-select
+  /// callback, raw-tcp accept callback, host select() return path) has already
+  /// woken the main loop, so a second wake here would be redundant. Application
+  /// is a friend of Component, so we set the pending-enable flags directly.
+  /// Not IRAM_ATTR: all callers run in task / user-IRQ context, not a real ISR,
+  /// and the LwIP event callbacks that invoke this are not IRAM-resident either.
+  void wake_ota_component_any_context() {
     if (this->ota_wake_component_ != nullptr) {
       this->ota_wake_component_->pending_enable_loop_ = true;
       this->has_pending_enable_loop_requests_ = true;