diff --git a/packages/sdk/react-native/package.json b/packages/sdk/react-native/package.json
index 78f2fa9bc2..c04de716a8 100644
--- a/packages/sdk/react-native/package.json
+++ b/packages/sdk/react-native/package.json
@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@
     "ios": "yarn && yarn ./example && yarn build && (cd example/ && yarn ios-go)"
   },
   "peerDependencies": {
-    "react": "*"
+    "react": "*",
+    "react-native": "*"
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "@launchdarkly/js-client-sdk-common": "0.0.1",
@@ -64,6 +65,7 @@
     "launchdarkly-js-test-helpers": "^2.2.0",
     "prettier": "^3.0.0",
     "react": "^18.2.0",
+    "react-native": "^0.73.1",
     "rimraf": "^5.0.5",
     "ts-jest": "^29.1.0",
     "typedoc": "0.25.0",
diff --git a/packages/sdk/react-native/src/platform/ConditionalAsyncStorage.ts b/packages/sdk/react-native/src/platform/ConditionalAsyncStorage.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8f4f111a61
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/sdk/react-native/src/platform/ConditionalAsyncStorage.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+/* eslint-disable import/no-mutable-exports,global-require */
+
+/**
+ * For react-native version >= 0.71, the LaunchDarkly React-Native SDK uses
+ * @react-native-async-storage/async-storage for bootstrapping. This is a native
+ * dependency.
+ *
+ * If you are using expo, then adding the LaunchDarkly React Native
+ * SDK from npm and re-running pod install should suffice.
+ *
+ * If you are not using expo, you will need to explicitly add
+ * @react-native-async-storage/async-storage as a dependency to your project
+ * and re-run pod install for auto-linking to work. This is because auto-link
+ * does not work with transitive dependencies:
+ * https://github.com/react-native-community/cli/issues/1347
+ *
+ * For react-native version < 0.71, the built-in react-native AsyncStorage
+ * module is used.
+ */
+let ConditionalAsyncStorage: any;
+
+try {
+  // react-native version < 0.71
+  ConditionalAsyncStorage = require('react-native').AsyncStorage;
+} catch (e) {
+  // react-native version >= 0.71
+  ConditionalAsyncStorage = require('@react-native-async-storage/async-storage').default;
+}
+
+export default ConditionalAsyncStorage;
diff --git a/packages/sdk/react-native/src/platform.ts b/packages/sdk/react-native/src/platform/index.ts
similarity index 74%
rename from packages/sdk/react-native/src/platform.ts
rename to packages/sdk/react-native/src/platform/index.ts
index ee85050cf6..ba2db6299b 100644
--- a/packages/sdk/react-native/src/platform.ts
+++ b/packages/sdk/react-native/src/platform/index.ts
@@ -1,20 +1,4 @@
 /* eslint-disable max-classes-per-file */
-
-/**
- * The LaunchDarkly SDK uses async-storage for bootstrapping and this is a native
- * dependency.
- *
- * If you are using expo, then adding the LaunchDarkly React Native
- * SDK from npm and re-running pod install should suffice.
- *
- * If you are not using expo, you will need to explicitly add
- * @react-native-async-storage/async-storage as a dependency to your project
- * and re-run pod install for auto-linking to work. This is because auto-link
- * does not work with transitive dependencies:
- * https://github.com/react-native-community/cli/issues/1347
- */
-import AsyncStorage from '@react-native-async-storage/async-storage';
-
 import type {
   Crypto,
   Encoding,
@@ -34,9 +18,10 @@ import type {
   Storage,
 } from '@launchdarkly/js-client-sdk-common';
 
-import { name, version } from '../package.json';
-import { btoa, uuidv4 } from './polyfills';
-import RNEventSource from './react-native-sse';
+import { name, version } from '../../package.json';
+import { btoa, uuidv4 } from '../polyfills';
+import RNEventSource from '../react-native-sse';
+import AsyncStorage from './ConditionalAsyncStorage';
 
 class PlatformRequests implements Requests {
   createEventSource(url: string, eventSourceInitDict: EventSourceInitDict): EventSource {