diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/hermes-engine/build.gradle.kts b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/hermes-engine/build.gradle.kts
index 377afdb2edde77..b11dd7971deb8a 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/hermes-engine/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/hermes-engine/build.gradle.kts
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ android {
       externalNativeBuild {
         cmake {
           arguments(
-              "-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=MinSizeRel",
+              "-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release",
               // For release builds, we don't want to enable the Hermes Debugger.
               "-DHERMES_ENABLE_DEBUGGER=False")
         }