diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index c30b3bf15..bf7ef87f7 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ version: 2.1
 
 orbs:
   # This uses the iOS Orb located at https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/circleci-orbs
-  ios: wordpress-mobile/ios@0.0.35
+  ios: wordpress-mobile/ios@0.0.36
 
 workflows:
   test_and_validate:
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ workflows:
           name: Validate WordPress-Editor-iOS.podspec
           xcode-version: "11.0"
           podspec-path: WordPress-Editor-iOS.podspec
-          # Updating specs is needed since WordPress-Editor-iOS depends on WordPress-Aztec-iOS
-          update-specs-repo: true
+          # Reference WordPress-Aztec-iOS.podspec locally so we don't have to get it from the specs repo
+          additional-parameters: --include-podspecs=WordPress-Aztec-iOS.podspec
 
       - ios/publish-podspec:
           name: Publish WordPress-Aztec-iOS to Trunk