diff --git a/example/ios/Podfile.lock b/example/ios/Podfile.lock
index 48729c7ca..ca346c83d 100644
--- a/example/ios/Podfile.lock
+++ b/example/ios/Podfile.lock
@@ -445,7 +445,7 @@ PODS:
     - GenericJSON (~> 2.0)
     - Logging (~> 1.0.0)
     - secp256k1.swift (~> 0.1)
-  - XMTP (0.9.5):
+  - XMTP (0.9.6):
     - Connect-Swift (= 0.12.0)
     - GzipSwift
     - LibXMTP (= 0.4.3-beta4)
@@ -454,7 +454,7 @@ PODS:
     - ExpoModulesCore
     - MessagePacker
     - secp256k1.swift
-    - XMTP (= 0.9.5)
+    - XMTP (= 0.9.6)
   - Yoga (1.14.0)
 
 DEPENDENCIES:
@@ -751,8 +751,8 @@ SPEC CHECKSUMS:
   secp256k1.swift: a7e7a214f6db6ce5db32cc6b2b45e5c4dd633634
   SwiftProtobuf: 407a385e97fd206c4fbe880cc84123989167e0d1
   web3.swift: 2263d1e12e121b2c42ffb63a5a7beb1acaf33959
-  XMTP: 8a4f43d2861916f96d0c3dae65064517b4521da7
-  XMTPReactNative: 65521481ad989fea7303b685ba323f6cd04d8e9f
+  XMTP: 603eecf511ce63f6390b2468fc78500373c1e786
+  XMTPReactNative: 54fa7119379885089f695af928594d5720666ef6
   Yoga: e71803b4c1fff832ccf9b92541e00f9b873119b9
 
 PODFILE CHECKSUM: 95d6ace79946933ecf80684613842ee553dd76a2
diff --git a/ios/XMTPReactNative.podspec b/ios/XMTPReactNative.podspec
index c812f55a1..41295693a 100644
--- a/ios/XMTPReactNative.podspec
+++ b/ios/XMTPReactNative.podspec
@@ -26,5 +26,5 @@ Pod::Spec.new do |s|
   s.source_files = "**/*.{h,m,swift}"
   s.dependency 'secp256k1.swift'
 	s.dependency "MessagePacker"
-  s.dependency "XMTP", "= 0.9.5"
+  s.dependency "XMTP", "= 0.9.6"
 end