diff --git a/ios/Sources/Extensions+Helpers/RCTView+Helpers.swift b/ios/Sources/Extensions+Helpers/RCTView+Helpers.swift
index 09be306d5aa39337c5114c2ad6ba7513218e0751..24ff8ee2c36fef8632a7e012514fd04db9bf89fd 100644
--- a/ios/Sources/Extensions+Helpers/RCTView+Helpers.swift
+++ b/ios/Sources/Extensions+Helpers/RCTView+Helpers.swift
@@ -25,15 +25,14 @@ public extension RCTView {
     return rootView.recursivelyFindSubview(whereType: targetType);
   };
   
-  var closestParentReactContentView: RCTRootContentView? {
-    let targetType = RCTRootContentView.self;
-  
-    if let match = self.recursivelyFindParentView(whereType: targetType) {
-      return match;
-    };
-    
-    guard let rootView = self.rootViewForCurrentWindow else { return nil };
-    return rootView.recursivelyFindSubview(whereType: targetType);
+  // PATCH (streamyfin): RCTRootContentView is a legacy paper class that the prebuilt
+  // new-architecture React (RN 0.85) does not export, so any reference to it fails to
+  // link (Undefined symbols: _OBJC_CLASS_$_RCTRootContentView). The app runs the new
+  // architecture, where this content-view lookup is unused; short-circuit to nil.
+  // Return type widened to RCTView? so the caller's `.reactTouchHandlers` (an RCTView
+  // extension) still resolves.
+  var closestParentReactContentView: RCTView? {
+    return nil;
   };
   
   var reactTouchHandlers: [RCTTouchHandler]? {