diff --git a/packages/react-native/src/BacktraceClient.ts b/packages/react-native/src/BacktraceClient.ts
index e4f3c49f..032c1b04 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/src/BacktraceClient.ts
+++ b/packages/react-native/src/BacktraceClient.ts
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import { ReactStackTraceConverter } from './ReactStackTraceConverter';
 import { type FileSystem } from './storage/FileSystem';
 
 export class BacktraceClient extends BacktraceCoreClient<BacktraceConfiguration> {
-    private readonly _crashReporter?: CrashReporter;
+    private _crashReporter?: CrashReporter;
     private readonly _exceptionHandler: ExceptionHandler = generateUnhandledExceptionHandler();
 
     public crash(): void {
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ export class BacktraceClient extends BacktraceCoreClient<BacktraceConfiguration>
                 this.options.captureUnhandledPromiseRejections,
             );
 
-            this.initializeNativeCrashReporter();
+            this._crashReporter = this.initializeNativeCrashReporter();
         } finally {
             lockId && this.sessionFiles?.unlockPreviousSessions(lockId);
         }
diff --git a/packages/react-native/tests/nativeAttributePropagationTests.spec.ts b/packages/react-native/tests/nativeAttributePropagationTests.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f1295981
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/react-native/tests/nativeAttributePropagationTests.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+import { NativeModules } from 'react-native';
+import { mockStreamFileSystem } from './_mocks/fileSystem';
+
+// This package's jest config replaces the react-native preset's setupFiles, so the real Platform throws.
+jest.mock('react-native', () => ({
+    NativeModules: {},
+    Platform: {
+        OS: 'ios',
+        select: (options: Record<string, unknown>) => (options.ios !== undefined ? options.ios : options.default),
+    },
+}));
+
+jest.mock('../src/common/platformHelper', () => ({
+    version: () => '0.81.6',
+}));
+
+const nativeMock = {
+    initialize: jest.fn(),
+    useAttributes: jest.fn(),
+    crash: jest.fn(),
+};
+
+// CrashReporter caches BacktraceReactNative in a static field, so the mock has to land before the module loads.
+NativeModules.BacktraceReactNative = nativeMock;
+NativeModules.BacktraceDirectoryProvider = { applicationDirectory: () => '/' };
+(globalThis as unknown as { RN$Bridgeless: boolean }).RN$Bridgeless = true;
+
+/* eslint-disable @typescript-eslint/no-var-requires */
+const { BacktraceClient } = require('../src/BacktraceClient');
+const { CrashReporter } = require('../src/crashReporter/CrashReporter');
+/* eslint-enable @typescript-eslint/no-var-requires */
+
+function createClient() {
+    return new BacktraceClient({
+        options: {
+            url: 'https://submit.backtrace.io/universe/token/json',
+            database: { enable: true, captureNativeCrashes: true, path: '/backtrace' },
+            metrics: { enable: false },
+            breadcrumbs: { enable: false },
+            // Normally supplied by the native attribute providers; the core client rejects init without them.
+            userAttributes: { application: 'nativeAttributePropagation', 'application.version': '1.0.0' },
+        },
+        fileSystem: mockStreamFileSystem(),
+    });
+}
+
+// Every update carries the full scoped set rather than a delta, so merge the calls before asserting.
+function attributesSentToNative(): Record<string, string> {
+    return Object.assign({}, ...nativeMock.useAttributes.mock.calls.map((call) => call[0]));
+}
+
+describe('BacktraceClient native attribute propagation', () => {
+    beforeEach(() => {
+        jest.clearAllMocks();
+        // initialized is static, and would otherwise make initialize() a no-op for every test after the first.
+        (CrashReporter as unknown as { initialized: boolean }).initialized = false;
+    });
+
+    it('Should pass the attributes known at initialization to the native crash reporter', () => {
+        createClient().initialize();
+
+        expect(nativeMock.initialize).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+        expect(nativeMock.initialize.mock.calls[0][2]['error.type']).toBe('Crash');
+    });
+
+    it('Should forward an attribute added after initialization to the native crash reporter', () => {
+        const client = createClient();
+        client.initialize();
+        nativeMock.useAttributes.mockClear();
+
+        client.addAttribute({ 'session.id': 'abc-123' });
+
+        expect(nativeMock.useAttributes).toHaveBeenCalled();
+        expect(attributesSentToNative()['session.id']).toBe('abc-123');
+    });
+
+    it('Should forward every later attribute update, stringifying non-string values', () => {
+        const client = createClient();
+        client.initialize();
+        nativeMock.useAttributes.mockClear();
+
+        client.addAttribute({ 'session.id': 'abc-123' });
+        client.addAttribute({ 'retry.count': 7 });
+
+        const forwarded = attributesSentToNative();
+        expect(forwarded['session.id']).toBe('abc-123');
+        expect(forwarded['retry.count']).toBe('7');
+    });
+
+    it('Should NOT forward attributes once the client is disposed', () => {
+        const client = createClient();
+        client.initialize();
+        client.addAttribute({ 'before.dispose': 'yes' });
+        expect(nativeMock.useAttributes).toHaveBeenCalled();
+
+        client.dispose();
+        nativeMock.useAttributes.mockClear();
+        client.addAttribute({ 'after.dispose': 'no' });
+
+        expect(nativeMock.useAttributes).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    });
+});