diff --git a/React/Base/RCTMultipartStreamReader.m b/React/Base/RCTMultipartStreamReader.m
index 6f4c5b046791a0..529c595aef72e1 100644
--- a/React/Base/RCTMultipartStreamReader.m
+++ b/React/Base/RCTMultipartStreamReader.m
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ - (void)emitProgress:(NSDictionary *)headers
   // Throttle progress events so we don't send more that around 60 per second.
   CFTimeInterval currentTime = CACurrentMediaTime();
 
-  NSUInteger headersContentLength = headers[@"Content-Length"] != nil ? [headers[@"Content-Length"] unsignedIntValue] : 0;
+  NSInteger headersContentLength = headers[@"Content-Length"] != nil ? [headers[@"Content-Length"] intValue] : 0;
   if (callback && (currentTime - _lastDownloadProgress > 0.016 || final)) {
     _lastDownloadProgress = currentTime;
     callback(headers, @(headersContentLength), @(contentLength));