diff --git a/react-native-update.podspec b/react-native-update.podspec
index f7f0a3ad..76037a2a 100644
--- a/react-native-update.podspec
+++ b/react-native-update.podspec
@@ -43,7 +43,13 @@ Pod::Spec.new do |s|
   end
 
   # Set platform based on whether it's a valid Expo project and if we can parse its target
-  final_ios_deployment_target = '11.0' # Default target
+  # React Native's own minimum (defined by react_native_pods.rb, which the
+  # Podfile loads before evaluating podspecs). The pod platform version also
+  # becomes the deployment target of the privacy resource bundle target,
+  # which React Native's post_install does not raise: Xcode 27 rejects
+  # anything below 15.0 there, so a hard-coded 11.0 fails the build.
+  final_ios_deployment_target =
+    defined?(min_ios_version_supported) ? min_ios_version_supported : '11.0'
 
   if valid_expo_project
     # --- Try to find and parse ExpoModulesCore.podspec only if it's an Expo project ---