diff --git a/static/app/views/performance/newTraceDetails/traceLinksNavigation/useFindLinkedTraces.ts b/static/app/views/performance/newTraceDetails/traceLinksNavigation/useFindLinkedTraces.ts
index b92342b6c53ac1..d4e995f1b230f5 100644
--- a/static/app/views/performance/newTraceDetails/traceLinksNavigation/useFindLinkedTraces.ts
+++ b/static/app/views/performance/newTraceDetails/traceLinksNavigation/useFindLinkedTraces.ts
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ export function useFindAdjacentTrace({
     projectId,
     environment,
     currentTraceId,
-    currentSpanId,
     adjacentTraceId,
     adjacentTraceSpanId,
     hasAdjacentTraceLink,
@@ -39,7 +38,6 @@ export function useFindAdjacentTrace({
     let _projectId: number | undefined = undefined;
     let _environment: string | undefined = undefined;
     let _currentTraceId: string | undefined;
-    let _currentSpanId: string | undefined;
     let _adjacentTraceAttribute: TraceItemResponseAttribute | undefined = undefined;
 
     for (const a of attributes ?? []) {
@@ -49,8 +47,6 @@ export function useFindAdjacentTrace({
         _environment = a.value;
       } else if (a.name === 'trace' && a.type === 'str') {
         _currentTraceId = a.value;
-      } else if (a.name === 'transaction.span_id' && a.type === 'str') {
-        _currentSpanId = a.value;
       } else if (a.name === 'previous_trace' && a.type === 'str') {
         _adjacentTraceAttribute = a;
       }
@@ -74,7 +70,6 @@ export function useFindAdjacentTrace({
       projectId: _projectId,
       environment: _environment,
       currentTraceId: _currentTraceId,
-      currentSpanId: _currentSpanId,
       hasAdjacentTraceLink: _hasAdjacentTraceLink,
       adjacentTraceSampled: _adjacentTraceSampledFlag === '1',
       adjacentTraceId: _adjacentTraceId,
@@ -84,7 +79,12 @@ export function useFindAdjacentTrace({
 
   const searchQuery =
     direction === 'next'
-      ? `sentry.previous_trace:${currentTraceId}-${currentSpanId}-1`
+      ? // relaxed the next trace lookup to match spans containing only the
+        // traceId and not the spanId of the current trace root. We can't
+        // always be sure that the current trace root is indeed the span the
+        // next span would link towards, because sometimes the root might be a web
+        // vital span instead of the actual intial span from the SDK's perspective.
+        `sentry.previous_trace:${currentTraceId}-*-1`
       : `id:${adjacentTraceSpanId} trace:${adjacentTraceId}`;
 
   const enabled =