diff --git a/lib/web_ui/lib/src/engine/canvaskit/embedded_views.dart b/lib/web_ui/lib/src/engine/canvaskit/embedded_views.dart
index 32d23a791d7f8..e18cd0185095a 100644
--- a/lib/web_ui/lib/src/engine/canvaskit/embedded_views.dart
+++ b/lib/web_ui/lib/src/engine/canvaskit/embedded_views.dart
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ class HtmlViewEmbedder {
     final double inverseScale = 1 / scale;
     final Matrix4 scaleMatrix =
         Matrix4.diagonal3Values(inverseScale, inverseScale, 1);
-    headTransform.multiply(scaleMatrix);
+    headTransform = scaleMatrix.multiplied(headTransform);
     head.style.transform = float64ListToCssTransform(headTransform.storage);
   }