diff --git a/package/src/dependencies/ModuleProxy.ts b/package/src/dependencies/ModuleProxy.ts
index 81210c9810..7b515feb30 100644
--- a/package/src/dependencies/ModuleProxy.ts
+++ b/package/src/dependencies/ModuleProxy.ts
@@ -9,6 +9,16 @@ export const createModuleProxy = <TModule>(getModule: () => ImportType): TModule
 
   const proxy = new Proxy(holder, {
     get: (target, property) => {
+      if (property === '$$typeof') {
+        // If inlineRequires is enabled, Metro will look up all imports
+        // with the $$typeof operator. In this case, this will throw the
+        // `OptionalDependencyNotInstalledError` error because we try to access the module
+        // even though we are not using it (Metro does it), so instead we return undefined
+        // to bail out of inlineRequires here.
+        // See https://github.com/mrousavy/react-native-vision-camera/pull/2953
+        return undefined
+      }
+
       if (target.module == null) {
         // lazy initialize module via require()
         // caller needs to make sure the require() call is wrapped in a try/catch