diff --git a/template/android/app/src/debug/AndroidManifest.xml b/template/android/app/src/debug/AndroidManifest.xml
index 4ea9bc04966..fa26aa56e1c 100644
--- a/template/android/app/src/debug/AndroidManifest.xml
+++ b/template/android/app/src/debug/AndroidManifest.xml
@@ -4,5 +4,5 @@
 
     <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW"/>
 
-    <application tools:targetApi="28" tools:ignore="GoogleAppIndexingWarning" android:networkSecurityConfig="@xml/react_native_config" />
-</manifest>
\ No newline at end of file
+    <application android:usesCleartextTraffic="true" tools:targetApi="28" tools:ignore="GoogleAppIndexingWarning" />
+</manifest>
diff --git a/template/android/app/src/debug/res/xml/react_native_config.xml b/template/android/app/src/debug/res/xml/react_native_config.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index ba4b23070be..00000000000
--- a/template/android/app/src/debug/res/xml/react_native_config.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
-<network-security-config>
-  <domain-config cleartextTrafficPermitted="true">
-    <domain includeSubdomains="false">localhost</domain>
-    <domain includeSubdomains="false">10.0.2.2</domain>
-    <domain includeSubdomains="false">10.0.3.2</domain>
-  </domain-config>
-</network-security-config>